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Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
Adopted 17 Feb 1964
Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62] has another flag: two equally wide horizontal stripes of green and yellow, with a white hoist, charged with the municipal arms.
This flag was not official. The colors (incl. the white hoist) are derived from the municipal arms.
Jarig Bakker, 31 Oct 2003
The CoA is: "green with a bare girded, bearded and winged idol facing sinister, with in each hand a snake, all silver, standing on a lying wheel or." Granted 21 Mar 1853.
There has been much speculation about who that idol might be - a god "Warns" of the old Frisians or Saxons, perhaps the equivalent of Wodan or Odin, or the Greek god Hermes (Roman Mercurius), or a representation of the ancient tribe of the "Warnen" - so far not a shred of evidence has been found for any thesis, so the origin of the arms will probably remain hidden in the mists of time.
Source: the Warnsveld municipal site.
Jarig Bakker, 31 Oct 2003