Red on top, blue below and a yellow line-drawn star upside down: the flag of Haaksbergen copies the star of its coat of arms.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio divided into two horizontal stripes of the same height: red on top and blue below.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Haaksbergen is a municipality in the province of Overijssel, in the east of the Netherlands, near the border with Germany. Its flag has two stripes, red and blue, and over them a large yellow line-drawn star placed upside down.
It was designed by H. G. M. Schulten, a former councillor, and the municipal council approved it on 21 March 1962. He took the red, the yellow and the star from the municipal coat of arms, an inverted golden star on red, and added the blue for the water.
It has not changed since 1962.
Almost everything comes from the coat of arms:
Red and yellow
the colours of the coat of arms of Haaksbergen.
Blue
the stream of the municipality, the Buurserbeek according to Flags of the World; Dutch Wikipedia uses Schipbeek, the name it takes further downstream.
Inverted star
perhaps the old rural communities of the municipality. Five would be the points and that of the village of Haaksbergen, the centre. It is a hypothesis, with no document to confirm it.
The oldest images of the star are on two 1737 bells of the church of Saint Pancras, replaced in 1907. There the points were rounded.
The coat of arms of 1898 carried a solid star. In 1948 it became a pentagram, a star drawn with crossing lines, and that is the one that passed to the flag.
The flag of Morocco is also red with a line-drawn pentagram, though green and with the point facing up.
Buurse, a village in the municipality, unveiled its own flag in 2005. It carries a red triangle that recalls a point of the Haaksbergen star.
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Text based on the article “Haaksbergen (Flags of the World)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: User:Phlegmatic, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
