A black crayfish on yellow: it was the flag of Aurskog-Høland, in Norway, until in 2020 the municipality adopted that of its neighbour Rømskog.
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It is a rectangular field with a 3:5 ratio, yellow, with a black crayfish in the centre: it is an armorial flag, the coat of arms put onto cloth.
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The crayfish coat of arms was drawn by the heraldist Truls Nygaard and approved by royal…
In 2020 the municipality merged with its neighbour Rømskog and kept that one’s symbols
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Aurskog-Høland is a municipality in the south-east of Norway. For almost forty years its flag was yellow with a black crayfish. In 2020 the municipality merged with its neighbour Rømskog and kept that one’s symbols.
The crayfish coat of arms was drawn by the heraldist Truls Nygaard and approved by royal resolution on 4 February 1983. It was inspired by an oval seal the municipality already used, with hills, four fir trees, a lake and a crayfish. As in almost all Norway, the flag repeated the coat of arms on the cloth.
The municipality changed flags when it merged.
1983-2019
The black crayfish on yellow of Aurskog-Høland.
2020
After joining Rømskog, the new municipality adopts that one’s symbols: white log tongs on blue.
In the 2020 merger, the new municipality, which kept the name Aurskog-Høland, did not keep its crayfish but the coat of arms of Rømskog.
Both flags, the crayfish one and the tongs one, come from coats of arms drawn by Truls Nygaard and approved in 1983 with only a few months between them.
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Text based on the article “Aurskog-Høland, Akershus (Norway) — Flags of the World” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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