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Schiermonnikoog recently has been a thorn in the thigh of small Zuid-Holland
municipalities, because the sparsely populated island is steadfastly winning
the contest of "which municipality is the first to have counted the votes?"
When all of Fryslân was liberated by Canadians and Poles after the
second world war the Germans held on to Schiermonnikoog and threatened to
shell Metslawier, the seat of our municipality of Oostdongeradeel. My dad
and others always had the opinion that Metslawier was a lousy village,
but were severely let down by the Germans, when they lamely surrendered.
What we didn't know was that as a result of the fighting many brave
soldiers died on Schiermonnikoog. All soldiers were buried on the same
graveyard in the only village on the island, Oosterburen. Later on it was
suggested to separate the dead, but the island council decided against
it, and it has remained so until now. The "Nieuwe Dockumer Courant" has
monitored the meetings between the relatives of the former enemies and
made some moving articles, recently edited into a book.
Jarig Bakker, 11 Aug 2003
A scan of a newsletter from Schiermonnikoog was submitted to FOTW. Upon
translation, it states:
"The island flag then had the attention of the
council. It was considered necessary to officially adopt the flag as the
municipal flag. The flag consists of seven laying stripes with from top to
bottom the colours red, white blue, green, red, white, blue."
It appears to date from slightly after the war, and would have been part of the re-emergence of the country, in which everything was going to be done right. This is the only reason I see why it was considered proper to formally adopt the flag the island had been using for centuries already.
de SchiermonnikoogShop (https://schiermonnikoogshop.nl/wimpel-schiermonnikoog-25x200-cm)
sells an "Eilander wimpel", island wimpel, 2 x 0.25, with the obvious
pattern of the seven flywise stripes of the flag.
Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 23 April 2018
Granted 19 Oct 1954. The monk has a grey (schier) habit, making the Coat of Arms canting.
Somewhere between 1851 and 1878 the "Zeemanscollege De Herkenning"
(the Recognition) was founded on Schiermonnikoog. Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg wrote 6 Dec 2001: Collegie Schiermonnikoog, at Schiermonnikoog.
Leen Smit pictures number X. By 1979 this college had disappeared.
Flag: Dutch flag with on the white a black bal and a number in Roman
numerals.
In "College Zeemanshoop 1822-1972" is a flag plate with said
flag (#1)
The undoing of this college has probably to do with the centralization
of the whaling-trade into the huge "Willem Barendsz" whaler.
Jarig Bakker, 11 Aug 2003
De Herkenning was founded in 1859.
Ron van Staveren, 15 Aug 2005
#246 in Steenbergen's Vlaggen van alle Natiën, 1870 - Schiermonnikoog,
island of the Netherlands, Navigation society.
Jaume Ollé, 15 Nov 2003