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Wijckel, Fryslan - Flag and Coat of Arms

Information on this page is courtesy of Fred Van Wicklin, sent via 28 Feb 2005 email. URL for Website from which information taken is:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/nl-fr-gl.html#wc

by Jarig Bakker, 18 Aug 2003 Wyckel (municipality of Gaasterlân-Sleat), Fryslân,
 

Coat of Arms: in gold a red kestrel taking off, in top with two open roses of the same, a green base charged with a horn of silver

Flag: two equally wide horizontal stripes yellow - green, with in the topstripe a red kestrel towards the hoist, and in the lower stripe towards the hoist a white horn. The kestrel is in the Frisian language a "reade wikel" is canting for the village-name. It occurs also on the arms of the van Wyckel family. The roses are derived from the CoA of the van Wyckel family - they had two "stinsen" here, hence the number of 2 roses. The horn in de base is derived from the arms of Menno van Coehoorn, who was buried in Wyckel. Van Coehoorn (1641-1704) was one of the greatest military experts of his time, and was mainly responsible for the fortification of cities and castles in the Netherlands. The shield's colors (yellow and green) are from the Gaasterland CoA, representing sandy soils and the meadows of the lower polder-areas. The flag is derived from the CoA and is self-evident.
Design: R.J.Broersma, member of the Fryske Rie foar Heraldyk
Source: Genealogysk Jierboekje 1989.
Vexilla Nostra jrg. 23, 158, p. 108.
Jarig Bakker, 18 Aug 2003

WIKEL - WIJCKEL

Translated via http://babel.altavista.com/

WIKEL - WIJCKEL province: Friesland municipality: Gaasterlân-Slaet the next rural weapon has been confessed: In gold a opvliegende falcon, accompanied in the upper shield angles of a rose, everything of throat; and a shield foot of sinople, on which a horn of zilver origin/declaration: The wikel are a speaking symbol for the village and prevented, with the rozen, also in the weapon of slaughtered Van Wijckel. The horn comes from the weapon of slaughtered Van Coehoorn. The well-known blockhouse builder Menno van Coehoorn at Wikel has lived and has been there also buried. The colours are the colours of the municipality weapon. Literature: Genealogysk Jierboek of the Fryske Rie foar heraldiek, 1989

http://www.ertussenuit.com/plaatsen/4428.htm Translated via http://babel.altavista.com/

The municipality Gaasterlân-Sleat counts 10,221 inhabitants (by 1-1-2004) and is wide 21,000 ha large. The municipality is 1 city and 13 villages rich, namely know: Closed (the smallest city of Fryslân), beam (the administrative centre), barge houses, Elahuizen, Harich, Kolderwolde, Mirns, Nijemirdum, Oudega, Oudemirdum, rijs, Ruigahuizen, Sondel and Wijckel. The region gauze for the country has a well-known consonance in our country. The name gauze for the country has been borrowed from at, these are high keileem - and sand grounds, pushed up suffered by Scandinavian landijs about 135,000 years. These at lies between the open polder landscape of the friese lakes and the large water plain of the IJsselmeer and ensures a strongly golvend landscape. Staande on hooggelegen the points you have superb view concerning country and water. Characterising for our municipality in addition the multiplicity of bunch and water is. This makes the municipality sticking out arranged for the recreation. Too more because this combination of bunch and water to our area an attractive and of the rest gives character derogatory of Fryslân. The rich historie of the municipality can be read as it were of vele monumental to pawn that you can find there. Especially in beam and closed you find a lot of splendid staircase - and halsgevels. It is for this reason also correct that the old core of beam has been designated as protected rural face and the whole old town core of closed as protected town face. The blockhouse ramparts and manage still remind to a time that closed an almost impregnable blockhouse was. The city exhales still a rural environment. IJsselmeer, Slotermeer and Fluessen bring in the field of the water sport everything what is in this respect necessary. Accommodation in the form of camp-site and hunting ports is in abundance present. Without exception all cores in the municipality have been sticking out arranged for live, work and recreate. Further information finds you