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Ooststellingwerf (The Netherlands)

Fryslân province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net
Adopted 2 Oct 1963.

Ooststellingwerf municipality
Ooststellingwerf CoA
Oldeberkoop village

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Ooststellingwerf municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 26.760; area: 226,65 km². Settlements: Oosterwolde (seat), Appelscha, Donkerbroek, Elsloo, Fochteloo, Haule, Haulerwijk, Langedijke, Makkinga, Nijeberkoop, Oldeberkoop, Ravenswoud, Waskemeer.
Ooststellingwerf (Frisian: Eaststellingwerf) is a municipality in southeast Friesland with a dialect (Stellingwerfs) which forms a transition from Frisian to 'Saksisch' (the general name for eastern Netherlands vernaculars, like Drents, Twents, Grunnings), which resembles closely 'Plattdeutsch' in northwest Germany.
Flag: "A red hoist and a white fly with over all a walking griffin countercharged." Adopted 2 Oct 1963. The griffin on the flag is an old symbol for 'Stellingwerf' and can also be seen on the flag and CoA of Weststellingwerf.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Sep 1999

Ooststellingwerf CoA

image from the Ooststellingwerf municipal website.

Granted in 1962.

Oldeberkoop village

image by Jarig Bakker, 8 Oct 2006

Oldeberkoop (Frisian: Âldeberkeap, Berkeap) is a village in Ooststellingwerf, souteastern Fryslân.
Its flag is at the village website: blue with at the hoist a white goat hoofed and horned yellow, walking on its hindlegs and at the fly a black sword pointing towards the hoist.

Oldeberkoop was first mentioned in 1228 when Frisian warriors prepared themselves in "Brocope" to invade Drenthe. The name is derived from "broek" (wet grassland) and "ope"(water. It ortiginated c. 900 years ago on the sandy ridges between the small rivers Linde and Tjonger. Along these rivers were areas which were flooded most of the year. Oldeberkoop was from 1912 till 1955 the municipal seat. The most important family was Willinge Prins.
The village has 1600 inhabitants, and the center is doubtless the goat "Snoesje" (darling), offered as a statue by the New Year's Eve society "De Geitefok". In the 80-years war against the Spaniards there was a fortification "Bekhofschans", which played a major rôle in the Frisian defense against the Spaniards.
Nickname: "stobbeskiters" people who washed their hands behind or on treestumps.
Jarig Bakker, 8 Oct 2006