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Graft-De Rijp (The Netherlands)

Former municipality, Noord Holland province

by Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2004
adopted 9 September 2004

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Graft-De Rijp municipality

A flag was adopted 9 Sep 2004 by municipal resolution:
"A hoist of two equally high wavy bars of blue and yellow, with two three-leaved cloverleaf-crowns countercharged, the crowns of 1/5 flag height; a fly of four wavy stripes of green, white, black and red, proportioned 5:2:2:5".
On 1 Aug 1970 the municipalities of Graft and De Rijp merged to form the new municipality Graft-De Rijp, which had no flag until now. All colors from the municipal arms are represented in the new flag.
The two crowns symbolize the original independent municipalities, which received its wealth (the crowns) from and out of the water (the blue and wavy bars), and the earth (black), and the meadows (green).
Source: Graft-De Rijp municipal website.
Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 6.396; area: 21,76 km².
Settlements: De Rijp (seat), Graft, Markenbinnen, Noordeinde, Oost-Graftdijk, Starnmeer, West-Graftdijk.

Graft-De Rijp Coat of Arms

image from Ralf Hartemink's site.

Granted 16 December 1970. Graft-De Rijp does have a Coat of Arms, in which the Rijper herring-fishing and whaling have been depicted. Most remarkable are the silver pennies, which remind of the so-called "zeevarende buidels" (seafaring bags). They were a kind of insurance for sailors, a.o. for ransoms for sailors who had been taken prisoner by privateers.
Source: "Noord-Holland en zijn gemeenten", 1981
Jarig Bakker, 2 June 2003