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Oosterhout (The Netherlands)
Noord-Brabant province
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adopted 11 Sep 1956
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Oosterhout municipality
Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 53.132; area: 73,00 km². Settlements:
Oosterhout (seat), Baarschot, Den Hout, Dorst, Eind van den Hout, Groenendijk,
Heikant, Heistraat, Hespelaar, Oosteind, Seters, Steelhoven, Steenoven,
Ter Aalst, Vijfhuizen, Vrachelen.
Flag and CoA represent the founder of Oosterhout, Willem van Duvenvoorde
(1290-1353), who was a distant relative of the Wassenaar family, hence
the three "wassenaars" (crescents).
Oosterhout CoA
image from the Oosterhout municipal
site.
Granted 16 Jul 1817.