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Zeeland polderboards (The Netherlands)

Waterschappen

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Hulster Ambacht polderboard

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003
design by Kl. Sierksma

Dutch name: Waterschap Het Hulster Ambacht; seat : Hulst (Zeeuws Vlaanderen, Zeeland province).
Flag: seven equally wide horizontal stripes; the top and bottom stripes triangeled of blue and white; the other stripes of blue and white, etc. over all at the hoist, reaching top, bottom and hoist, a yellow square, standing on its point, bordered green (border = 1/7 flagheight), charged with a black plough-iron and spade in saltire.
Adopted after design by Kl. Sierksma, and adviced by the Stichting voor Banistiek en Heraldiek.
Text: Kl. Sierksma; image: Hans van Heijningen.
Source: Vexilla Nostra #121, Jul-Aug 1982.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Noord-Beveland polderboard

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Official name: Waterschap Noord-Beveland; seat: Kortgene
Flag: stripes blue - white - blue, with in the center the shield of the arms of 2/5 flagheight
Source Vexilla Nostra #122, Sep-Oct 1982.
text: Kl. Sierksma; image: H. van Heijningen.

Other info:
Flag: stripes blue - white - blue, in the center of white the complete arms, viz. "Azure two bars wavy argent between in chief a fess or indented at the upper side and three stars (6) argent, and in base a buckle and a partridge both argent; the shield bearing a golden crown".
This waterschap deals with dikes and watermanagement on the former island of Noord-Beveland in the province of Zeeland. The flag shows the colors of the arms; in the latter the indented fess symbolizes the 4 districts of the waterschap. The other charges are derived from the arms of the villages in the waterschap: the stars for Kortgene, the wavy bars from Kate, the buckle from Wissenkerke and the partridge from Colijnsplaat.
Source: Mr. A.J. Beenhakker in Vexilla Nostra V:34 (1975).
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

N/Z Beveland polderboard

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Dutch name: Waterschap voor Noord- en Zuid Beveland, seat Goes.
Flag: equally wide horizontal stripes of blue - white - blue, with a black hoist-triangle, charged with a white stepping goose.
Text: Kl. Sierksma; image: Hans van Heijningen.
Source: Vexilla Nostra #121, Jul-Aug 1982.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Schouwen-Duiveland polderboard

image by Jarig Bakker, 18 May 2004
adopted 10 Jul 1987; design: High Council of Nobility

Official name: Waterschap Schouwen-Duiveland; seat: Brouwershaven
adopted 10 Jul 1987; design: High Council of Nobility
Flagdescription: Seven wavy stripes of blue and white. Along the full hoist four black triangles of 1/3 flaglength.
The colors and pieces are derived from the polderboard arms (which doesn't seem to have been published), which is described as: "Swallowtaile-formed divided: I. Wavy divided: a. Gold charged with a merman and mermaid issuing from the waves of natural colors, withj tails of green, the merman andf mermaid reaching each other's hand.; b. Wavy per fess of 6 pieces blue-silver; II. indented parti of five pieces, heraldic right silver; heraldic left black; the shield surmounted by a golden crown of three leaves and two pearls.
The arms were granted 18 Dec 1959. The top consists of the arms of the polderboard "Schouwen", which was abolished on 1 Jan 1959. There was no separate polderboard of Duiveland; for that part the old indented arms of the municipality Duiveland was used in the black-white version.
In the flag the number of blue-white stripes changed from 6 to 7, referring to the Zeeuwse flag. The 4 complete points in the arms have correctly been transformed into hoist-triangles.
Source: Vexilla Nostra #154, Jan/Feb 1988.
Text: Hans van Heijningen
Jarig Bakker, 18 May 2004

Het Vrije van Sluis Polderboard old flag

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Official name: Waterschap Het Vrije van Sluis; seat Oostburg.
Flag: White, with in the center the Coat of Arms, crowned with thistles of green and blue of 1/4 flagheight, and above and below in black WATERSCHAP / HET VRIJE VAN SLUIS, with letters of 1/10 flagheight.
Source Vexilla Nostra #122, Sep-Oct 1982.
text: Kl. Sierksma; image: H. van Heijningen.

Other info:
Flag: white, in the center the complete arms, viz. "Argent a bend azure; crest a thistle in flower proper; above and below the black inscription: WATERSCHAP HET VRIJE VAN SLUIS
This waterschap covers the Western part of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the region south of Westerschelde at the Belgian frontier. The flag does not meet the normal rules, showing the whole name of the college. The very simple arms with their remarkable crest have a long history, which goes back to the House of Noelles, hereditary bailiffs of the Freedom of Brugge, of which the waterschap was once a part.
Source: Mr. A.J. Beenhakker in Vexilla Nostra V:34 (1975).
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Het Vrije van Sluis Polderboard new flag

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003
adopted 19 Mar 1991; design: J.A.J. Boekhout

Official name: Waterschap Het Vrije van Sluis; seat Oostburg.
Design: J.A.J. Boekhout in Breskens; flag adopted 19 Mar 1991 by resolition of the Board of Directors of the polderboard.
Description: seven stripes running from hoist-top to fly-bottom proportioned 3:2:2:3:2:2:3 of white and blue.
Source Vexilla Nostra #181, vol 27.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Walcheren polderboard

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Official name: Waterschap Walcheren; seat: Middelburg.
Flag: 7 horizontal stripes of white and blue, with in the center the crowned coat of arms..
Source Vexilla Nostra #122, Sep-Oct 1982.
text: Kl. Sierksma; image: H. van Heijningen.
Other info: Flag: 7 stripes blue-white; in the center the complete arms, viz. "Or, a whale sable nayant on a sea barry wavy azure and argent; the shield bearing a golden crown with 11 pearls.
This is the waterschap for the island of Walcheren, famous as a seaside resort and because of the inundation and recovering in 1944-45. Flag and arms are almost similar to the flag and arms of the province of Zeeland, but the arms do not show the emerging lion of Zeeland, but a whale, a specimen of canting heraldry.
Source: Mr. A.J. Beenhakker in Vexilla Nostra V:34 (1975).
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Wilhelminapolder polderboard

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Official name: Koninklijke maatschap De Wilhelminapolder; seat Goes, Zeeland province.
Flag: stripes green - yellow - black, with over all in the center an equally wide white stripe, parallel to the hoist, with in the center a blue square of 1/3 flagheight, charged with the coat of arms.
Source Vexilla Nostra #122, Sep-Oct 1982.
text: Kl. Sierksma; image: H. van Heijningen.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

Waterschap Zeeuws-Vlaanderen

image sent by Jan Mertens, 14 Jan 2009

I am afraid that a relatively new board was not
inspired when it adopted a flag – see here: “Waterschap Zeeuws-Vlaanderen” unites “De Drie Ambachten”, “Het Vrije van Sluis”, and “Hulster Ambacht” since 1999. The logo, shown on above page, is placed on a white field.

Said logo consists of three dark blue horizontal stripes placed in a diagonally (left to right) descending position (apparently invoking the three former boards’ location), surrounded by an interrupted green oval line. To the left of it is placed the name: “Waterschap” (dark blue, large) / “Zeeuws-Vlaanderen” (green, smaller).
Jan Mertens, 14 Jan 2009