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3:5 image by Jorge Candeias
Lesser Flag, adopted 1928
The term Watteninsel does not refer to Norderney's legal status,
but to its geology. The Frisian Islands are sandbars, and I have read that
in the last eight hundred years they have lost ninety per cent of their
area.
John Ayer, 18 Jul 2000
Norderney is a Watteninsel. It is at the same time an island
and a municipality. It is one of the rare municipalities in Germany which
has two different flags, the lesser flag and
the greater flag. (...) The greater flag
is today the service flag of the municipality of Norderney, but is less
used than the lesser flag which is well known by the inhabitants
of the island. The two flags were adopted in 1928. (...) It should be noted
that these two flags are the flags of the municipality. There is no administrative
unit like a council for the island, but only a council for the municipality.
Source: van Heijnigen 1998 [available
online at the Der
Flaggenkurier website].
Pascal Vagnat, 8 Mar 1999
The greater flag also has six horizontal stripes alternatively
blue and white with the coat of arms of the commune near the hoist. The
coat of arms is white with two blue wavy lines at the bottom from which
comes a dune with a landmark in black. The coat of arms was granted on
10th July 1928 by the Prussian State Ministry and was drawn by the local
artist Poppo Folkerts. In 1951 the blue colour of the coat of arms was
changed to white. The greater flag is today the service flag of
the municipality of Norderney, but is less used than the lesser
flag which is well known by the inhabitants of the island. Source:
van Heijnigen 1998 [available online at
the Der
Flaggenkurier website].
Pascal Vagnat, 8 Mar 1999
This island has two flags, a greater and a lesser
flag. The greater flag consists of six blue and white stripes with
the coat of arms. Apart from van Heijnigen
1998, the flag is also described in both Stadler
1964-1972 and Keyser 1939-1974. None
of the sources mentions the size of the arms, i.e. how many stripes should
it cover - so my picture is slightly uncertain. Sources: van
Heijnigen 1998, arms from Stadler 1964-1972.
Stefan Schwoon, 27 Mar 2001