Chastre (Municipality, Province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium)

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Municipal flag of Chastre - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 13 November 2005

• Presentation of Chastre
• Municipal flag of Chastre

See also:

• Belgium
• Province of Walloon Brabant: Municipal flags
• Belgium: Municipal flags

Presentation of Chastre

The municipality of Chastre (6,819 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 3,129 ha) is located in Walloon Brabant. The municipality of Chastre is made since 1976 of the former municipalities of Chastre (1,445 inh.)-Villeroux (522 inh.)-Blanmont (1,481 inh.) [1,005 ha], Cortil (1,046 inh.)-Noirmont (573 inh.) [1,065 ha], Gentinnes (782 inh.; 711 ha) and Saint-Géry (594 inh.; 351 ha).

Ivan Sache, 13 November 2005

Municipal flag of Chastre

The municipal flag of Chastre is blue with a semy of white billets and a yellow diagonal stripe (per bend).
The flag follows a proposal made by the Heraldry and Vexillology Council of the French Community, described in Armoiries communales en Belgique. Communes wallonnes, bruxelloises et germanophones as:
Bleu semé de billettes blanches et chargé d'une laize diagonale descendante jaune.

The flag is a banner of the arms of the family of Onyn. These arms form one of the two shields of the municipal arms. The two-shield municipal arms are shown on the municipal website; the first shield is "Argent five rhombs gules placed 1+3+1".

Arnaud Leroy, Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 13 November 2005