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Deventer (Netherlands)

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Deventer municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net
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Deventer municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 86.084; area: 107,92 km². Settlements: Deventer (seat), Colmschate, Diepenveen, Lettele, Okkenbroek, Schalkhaar.
Deventer is the result of a merger between the former municipalities of Deventer and Diepenveen on 1 Jan 1999, the flag in use is provisional as it is the same as the former municipality of Deventer.
Deventer was an imperial city and was named as such in 1386. The eagle on flag and Coat of Arms is probably the imperial Holy Roman eagle.

Deventer Coat of Arms

[Deventer Coat of Arms] image from the Deventer municipal website.

Granted 30 Sep 1921

Deventer [former municipality]

Deventer former municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net

Historical flag of Deventer

old Deventer Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net

Diepenveen [former municipality]

former Diepenveen Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net

Diepenveen old unofficial flag

[Diepenveen old unofficial flag] Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net

Bathmen

[Bathmen] image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 November 2025

The flag of the Village of Bathmen was adopted by council resolution on April 23, 1981. On January 1, 2005, the municipality merged with the municipality of Deventer, meaning the flag ceased to be a municipal flag. Three equal-height stripes of red, yellow, and blue, with the municipal coat of arms on the red stripe near the hoist.
 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlag_van_Bathmen
Valentin Poposki, 13 November 2025

Arms

[Bathmen] image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 November 2025

Hamlet of Oude Molen

[Oude Molen] image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 November 2025

At a 2016 neighborhood meeting, the board was asked to consider designing a neighborhood flag. Perhaps a competition was suggested, and so it was. There were six entries. An independent jury, Wim Pakkert and Tonnie Moes, chose Mees Struijs's flag as the winning design. The explanation for the flag is: the gray stripe represents Holterweg, which runs through the middle of the neighborhood. The yellow stripes represent the fields and dirt roads. The green stripes represent the woods and meadows. The "bonkelaar," the innermost part of the mill, is a metaphor for the neighborhood residents; all different, yet each indispensable, and who, when they get moving, together create something beautiful. The board initially commissioned one flag to see if it would be a good fit. This flag was presented to Mees. After this first one, more will be ordered for the members and for the mill.
https://buurtvereniging.oudemolen.net/node/950
Valentin Poposki, 13 November 2025