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Hoogeveen (The Netherlands)

Drenthe province

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adopted 17 Apr 1958

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Hoogeveen municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 53.345; area: 129,00 km². Settlements: Hoogeveen (seat), Elim, Fluitenberg, Hollandscheveld, Nieuw Moscou, Nieuweroord, Nieuwlande, Noordscheschut, Pesse, Stuifzand, Tiendeveen.
The municipality of Hoogeveen consists of the former municipality of Hoogeveen and parts of other municipalities, like Ruinen, Beilen, Zuidwolde, e.a.
This flag was adopted by the municipal council on 17 April 1958; it had been in use already for about thirty years. The municipal resolution states for the shade of blue: 'Nassau's blue'. Source: Kl. Sierksma, 'Nederlands Vlaggenboek', 1962.
Jarig Bakker, 29 July 1999

Hoogeveen CoA

image from Ralf Hartemink's site.

Granted 10 Nov 1819. The Hoogeveen Coat of Arms is a pile of peat covered in straw and on both sides there are two beehives and an axe. The beehives date from the time when the inhabitants of Hoogeveen used to dig up empty peat fields to grow "boekweit". Boekweit contains alot of honey. Large numbers of Hoogeveeners became beekeepers. There were periods when the beekeepers in Hoogeveen produced more than 10,000 kilos of honey per year.

Hollandscheveld [village]

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Hollandscheveld is a place which sends shudders through the urbanized Dutch spines, as there started a farmers' revolt against the oppressive taxes. The movement resulted in several MPs of the Boer'n partij, captained by Boer Koekoek in the Dutch parliament (Boer = farmer, peasant). The village is a few km southeast of Hoogeveen in Drenthe and it was formerly a peat-digging area.

The flag: On the village tower is a peatcutter. Bert Duinkerken, the designer of the flag, wanted to make a village flag and insisted on the peatcutter, on a yellow field surrounded by blue. Blue is for water, of utmost importance to the region. Yellow is for sand, which remained after the peat was dug out. And the peatcutter is a symbol for the proud church-spine and the hard labor by which this region was formed.
Source: this webpage.
Jarig Bakker, 9 January 2001

Hollandscheveld CoA

image from this website.