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Municipal flag of Putte - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 7 July 2005
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The municipality of Putte (15,813 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 3,496 ha) is located 15 km west of Mechelen, in the southern border of the region of Kempen. The municipality of Putte is made since 1976 of the former municipalities of Putte and Beerzel and of a part of the former municipality of Peulis.
Putte bore several different names during its history: Badfriede or Befferen (1008), then Wavre St. Nicolay or Sint-Niklaas-Waver (see neighbouring Sint-Katelijne-Waver), De Sancto Nicolao de Putea or Putte Sancti Nycholai, and eventually, simply, Putte.
Beerzel already existed as a village in the 9th century, later named Barsal(1151), then Bersela, Beersele, Beersel-op-den-Bosch, for differenciation from Beersel in Brabant, and Beersel. The written form Beerzel was fixed in 1932.
Peulis (in the past Poeluus and Poelis) might have been named after the Poluus family (14th century), or after Pee Lens, an inhabitant of the village in the 19th century. Another possible etymology is the word paalt or peulte, "a marshy or low land".
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 7 July 2005
The municipal flag of Putte is vertically divided blue-yellow with the
municipal coat of arms in the middle.
According to Gemeentewapens in België - Vlaanderen en Brussel [w2v02a], the flag was adopted by the Municipal
Council on 6 June 1991, confirmed by the Executive of Flanders on 11
June 1991 and published in the Belgian official gazette on 25 September
1991.
According to the municipal website, the municipal arms of Putte, "Azure three millrinds or 2 and 1, a
bordure serrated or" were granted by Royal Decree on 29 May 1858 (Servais gives year 1838) and confirmed on 11 June
1991. They were the personal arms of the first lord and Baron of Putte,
Antonius Ferdinand van Broeckhoven, whose family ruled Putte from 1660 to
1793.
Earlier arms were supported by two lions each
holding a banner, one with the arms from the shield and the other one
with the ancient arms of Putte in the time of the Berthout family, "Or three pales gules a bend azure transversally bearing
three scallops or".
Arnaud Leroy, Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 7 July 2005
In Dutch the charges of the coat of arms are called molenijzer, in French fer de moulin. According to C. Pama's Prisma van heraldiek en genealogie (1990) the shape as above is typical Dutch. Outside the Low Countries it has different shapes and names (English: "millrind", "ink-moline", French: anille, German: Mühleisen) and is called in Dutch antiek molenijzer.
Mark Sensen, 26 September 1997
PKC supporters' flags - Images by Ivan Sache, 12 May 2009
The supporters of the Putte korfball club use various flags made of the club's (and municipal) colours, blue
and yellow:
- flag vertically divided blue-yellow;
- flag vertically divided yellow-blue-yellow;
- flag chequy yellow and blue, six rows, ten columns.
Ivan Sache, 12 May 2009