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Heumen (The Netherlands)

Gelderland province

image by Clay Moss, 9 Apr 2007
adopted 29 Oct 1981

Heumen municipality
Heumen old flag
Heumen Coat of Arms
Overasselt

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Heumen municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 16.609; area: 41,50 km². Settlements: Malden (seat), Blankenberg, De Schatkuil, Ewijk, Heide, Heumen, Molenhoek (part), Nederasselt, Overasselt, Schoonenburg, Sleeburg, Valenberg, Vogelenzang, Vosseneind, Worsum.
Heumen lies just south of Nijmegen on the Waal river. It is a rural municipality. In 1980 The municipality of Overasselt merged with Heumen.
The checky part of the flag is derived from the Coat of Arms.
Jarig Bakker, 1 October 1999

Heumen old flag

image by Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2003
Adopted 13 Mar 1963

Heumen is a municipality in Gelderland province, formed in 1980 by the merger of the former municipalities of Heumen and Overasselt; seat: Malden (made famous by Monty Python).
The old municipal flag was: chequy of five rows of six blocks of yellow and blue, with a hoist chequy of 2x5 half-blocks of black and white.
The colors were derived from the old municipal arms, whereby the ermines in the canton were transformed to half-blocks.
Adopted 13 Mar 1963 by municipal resolution.
Source: Vexilla Nostra no. 95 (1978).
Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2003

Heumen Coat of Arms

image from the Heumen municipal website.

Granted 20 May 1985.

Overasselt [former municipality]

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adopted 25 Jun 1954.

Flagdescription: two equally wide vertical stripes of blue, charged with a semée of yellow fleurs-de-lis and over the center a yellow crosier, and of yellow, with three black leopeards, placed on top of each other.
This flag was dopted 25 Jun 1954 by municipal resolution. It is derived from the municipal arms.
Source: Kl. Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962.
Overasselt was a separate municipality until it merged with Heumen in 1980 to form the new municipality of Heumen. It is on the Maas river, west of Heumen, with (1968) 3.000 inhabitants in the settlements Overasselt (seat), Worsem, Nederasselt, Keent, Balgooi, Valenberg, Heide. It is in the "Rijk van Nijmegen", the region in Gelderland between the Maas and Waal rivers, west and south of the city of Nijmegen. On New Year's Eve 1925 that whole area was flooded, with in Overasselt a breach in the dike of 125 meters.