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Haelen (The Netherlands)

Limburg province

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adopted 16 Sep 1991

Haelen municipality
Historical (unofficial) flag
Haelen CoA

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Haelen municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 10.106; area: 28,99 km². Settlements: Haelen (seat), Buggenum, Horn, Nunhem.
Haelen is in north Limburg, just north of Roermond. It is a rural municipality with small meandering rivulets and several watermills. on 1 Oct 1942 the municipalities of Haelen, Nunhen en Buggenum merged to form the new municipality of Haelen.
The horns on the flag are derived from the CoA of the lords of Buggenum, the family Horne. - Buggenum became part of Haelen in 1942.
Jarig Bakker, 29 November 1999

On 1 January 1991 the new municipality of Haelen was formed by the merger of the municipalities of Horn and Haelen. This is reflected in the flag adopted on 22 June 1982, designed by Hans van Heyningen. The upper half represents Horn, which used the old CoA of the County of Horne. Most of central Limburg west of the river Meuse belonged to this county, and the Count of Horne was also Lord of Weert, and also of Nederweert. The CoA were canting, and had a golden field with three red horns garnished of silver, placed 2:1. On 3 May 1963 the Municipality of Horn adopted a flag like this.
These horns also represents the former county or its family in other municipal flags, eg. Heel, Heythuysen, Hunsel, Roggel en Neer, and Weert. They also appear in the provincial CoA/flag of the Belgian province Liege. The three stripes in the lower part stand for the municipalities which merged in 1942 to form Haelen: Haelen, Nunhem and Buggenum.
Sources: Jos Poels, "De Leudal-vlaggen: Horn", in "Rondom het Leudal", nr. 52, december 1988.
Jos Poels, "De vlag van de nieuwe gemeente Haelen", in "Rondom het Leudal", nr. 72, winter 1993.
Jarig Bakker, 2 December 1999

Historical (unofficial) flag

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Adopted 22 June 1982, designed by Hans van Heyningen; reported in use from 1982 - 1991

Haelen CoA

image from the Haelen municipal website.

Granted 25 Nov 1991