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Hummelo en Keppel (The Netherlands)

Gelderland province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 24 Mar 1981

Hummelo en Keppel municipality
Hummelo en Keppel Coat of Arms

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Hummelo en Keppel municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 4.494; area: 43,16 km². Settlements: Hoog-Keppel (seat), Achter-Drempt, Eldrik, Hummelo, Laag-Keppel, Voor-Drempt.
This municipality is in central Gelderland, c. 10 km northwest of Doetinchem. The municipal seat is in Hoog Keppel (not to be confused with Laag Keppel - there is no village called Keppel, BTW). In Hummelo there are (were?) several stately farms with Russian names, reminding of the function of an old inhabitant at the Russian court (early 19th century).
The flag was adopted 24 Mar 1981 by municipal resolution.
Description: proportioned 2:3, with a white field and towards the hoist two red shells and beside it at half length anothet red shell.
This positioning of the shells was chosen because it was assumed that when the flag was flying the hoist-part was most visible.
The three shells on the flag are derived from the municipal Coat of Arms. They are 'St Jakobsschelpen' - St. James shells (Pecten jacobaeus). In the Middle Ages this was proof that someone had made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. As this was the Coat of Arms of the family van Palland of Keppel Manor one of the van Pallands may have taken it to this place.
Jarig Bakker, 3 October 1999

On 1 January 2004 the new municipality of Bronckhorst (Gelderland) was formed out of the merger of Hengelo (Gld), Hummelo en Keppel, Steenderen, Vorden and Zelhem.

Hummelo en Keppel Coat of Arms

image from the municipal site.

Granted 10 Jun 1870.