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![[Lingewaard flag]](../images/n/nl-ge-ld.gif)
by Stefan Lambrechts, 28 Jun 2005, of Shipmate
Flagchart.
I just got word from the municipality of Lingewaard, in Gelderland province,
about its new flag: white with the municipal logo.
The logo can be seen at the municipal
website, where it is explained as a multicolored butterfly, consisting
of 7 parts, each representing a village. (there is no explanation why only
part of the logo has been used on the flag).
The butterfly also symbolizes the rural environment of this municipality
in the Betuwe region, just north of Nijmegen.
The flag has been used recently in preparations for the "Nijmeegse
Vierdaagse", (walking event), where millions of astonished TV-watchers
will witness the guilds' prowess in municipal flag-throwing.
The flag was probably adopted at the same time as the logo: 1 Jan 2003.
This municipality was formed on 1 Jan 2001 by the merger of the former
municipalities of Bemmel, Gendt, and Huissen; at first it was named either
Bemmel or Betuwestad, renamed Lingewaard on 1 Jan 2003.
Stefan Lambrechts, 28 Jun 2005,
![[Lingewaard CoA]](../images/n/nl-ge)ld.jpg)
from the Lingewaard municipal website.
Granted ? The High Council of Nobility has it under consideration. The Arms consist of the the elements and colors of the former municipalities.
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net
Bemmel is a municipality just south of Arnhem
The flag was adopted 2 June 1961 and derived from the municipal CoA.
The rooks are also named 'bemmels', of which the origins seem to
lie in very early historic symbols.
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 1999