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During carnival Maastricht has another mayor
(Prince Carnival) and another flag, which consists of course of the colors
of the carnival festivities: red, yellow and green. These colors return
in the costumes of the "zaate herremeniekes" (small bands of carnival-musicians,
mostly not walking in a straight line) and other participants in the fun.
The village (sic!) of Oeteldonk (= the name of 's-Hertogenbosch
in carnival-times) has its own arms and flag, in the colors red-white-yellow".
Stefan Lambrechts, 16 Feb 2006
The carnival-colors of Eindhoven are orange/blue/orange.
Jan Melssen, 16 Feb 2006
Carnival is, and will stay, a local festivity, only established from
the old use to eat and drink (!) and dance a lot on the eve of 40-days
Lent (Fast).
Nowadays it has grown to a rang of festivities of 14 or more days (and
nights!) until the Wednesday of Lent, when everything is over. There are
a few more Dutch towns which have Carnival flags. Some have a great past
of Carnival festivities and their flags are firmly established: for example
's-Hertogenbosch
(Bois-le-Duc, Herzogenbusch) alias Oeteldonk. An other old town
with Carnivalfestivities is Bergen op Zoom,
alias Krabbengat. There is a local Carnival flag: white, whith red borders
at the top and at the bottom, and a green stripe at the fly. In the centre
a great round emblem.
An other, younger town is Roosendaal (east
of Bergen op Zoom). They have a diagonally parted flag of white and red
with a rather wasted form of the official coat of the Roosendaal arms in
the centre. This was also introduced last year. There is also an unofficially
Carnival flag you see there quite often. It consists of 4 or more red,
white dotted handkerchiefs, with borders of diverse patterns of red, white
and black. Because there is no central institute to regulate Carnival,
these flags have no tradition and are unofficial.
Willem van Ham, 17 Feb 2006
During carnival the Limburg flag-colors are red, yellow and green, see
for instance the carnival-flag of Weert.
Mark Sensen, 21 Feb 2006