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Woudrichem (The Netherlands)

Noord-Brabant province

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Adopted 31 Jan 1977

Woudrichem municipality
Woudrichem CoA
Giessen former municipality
Rijswijk former municipality

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Woudrichem municipality

Population (1 Jan 2003): 14.432; area: 51,57 km². Settlements: Woudrichem (seat), Almkerk, Andel, Giessen, Oudendijk, Rijswijk, Uitwijk, Uppel, Waardhuizen.
The present municipality was formed 1 Jan 1973 by the merger of the former municipalities of Almkerk, Andel, Giessen, Rijswijk, and Woudrichem.
Flag: a green hoist with a white standing salmon facing the hoist; the fly is yellow with a black horizontal stripe of 1/4 flagheight charged with with five yellow broadarmed crosses in a horizontal row.
Adopted 31 Jan 1977 by municipal resolution.

Woudrichem CoA

from the Woudrichem municipal website.
Granted 23 Mar 1974

The present coat of arms was awarded to Woudrichem by Royal Decree on 23 March 1974. It is a composition of the coats of arms of the surrounding villages, which in 1993 were combined into one borough. The coat of arms is a shield of gold with two opposite-facing salmons in gules [heraldic colour of red]; a chief of sable [heraldic colour of dark grey/blue] with five broad-armed crosslets in gold; and for the crest, a golden crown of three leaves and two pearls. The salmons on the shield are a reference to the salmon-fishing that was an integral part of Woudrichem for many centuries. Nowadays unfortunately, there are no salmons left in Dutch rivers.

Giessen former municipality

by Jarig Bakker, 11 Nov 2003

Giessen had a flag: white with a red. at least four times wavy hoist diagonal stripe of 1/3 flagheight.
Adopted 16 Jul 1970 by municipal resolution.
Woudrichem and the other former municipalities are at the point where the Waal flows into the Boven-Merwede, as well as the "Afgedamde Maas" (Dammed Maas (2 M's!), and where also three provincial boundaries meet (Zuid-Holland, Gelderland, and Noord-Brabant) - 3 rivers is a rather good excuse to use a wavy diagonal on a flag...
Source: Derkwillem Visser's Gemeentewapens en vlaggen Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 11 Nov 2003

Rijswijk former municipality

by Jarig Bakker, 11 Nov 2003

Rijswijk had a flag: a yellow fly and a white hoist, divided by a green hoist-diagonal at least four times wavy stripe of 1/3 flagheight.
Adopted 8 May 1970 by municipal resolution.
As stated above: a good excuse for even two wavy flags...
This Rijswijk is not to be confused with Rijswijk near Den Haag (Zuid-Holland). Good thing that Woudrichem kept its old name, as it is also colloquially known as Wo(e)rkum and then could easily be confused with Warkum in Fryslân...
Source: Derkwillem Visser's Gemeentewapens en vlaggen Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 11 Nov 2003