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Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 30 Jun 1959
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International
Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/
Granted 25 Mar 1818.
![[Hallum village flag]](../images/n/nl-fr0ha.gif)
by Mark Sensen, 29 Aug 1999
The village flag of Hallum (in the Frisian municipality Ferwerderadiel)
has a black hoist (1/3th of the flag length), and a fly horizontally striped
in the colours of the rainbow: red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet.
The design is from the local artist Ids Willemsma. All the colours
represent the day, the black represents the night. The colours also refer
to colours of the world: products of the local industry find their way
all over the world. The number seven (of the seven stripes) comes from
the coat-of-arms of the municipality of Ferwerderadeel
with its seven stars.
Source: Genealogysk Jierboek 1995.
Mark Sensen, 29 Aug 1999
8 colors (black, red - orange - yellow - green - blue - indigo - violet)
on one flag should be a vexillological worldrecord!
Mark Sensen, 8 Jun 2003
I have been trying to find out for a number of years now who was responsible
of foisting this truly hideous flag design on the lovely village of Hallum
but no one seems to know or want to own up. Yet the flag has been around
for a while (at least for 7 years) and is displayed from every shopfront
in the village, which is about 4 kilometers from my home in Wânswert.
I know of no other flag that features *eight* different colours in
such a manner - it is the vertical black stripe that really spoils its
appearance, without that it could be the gay flag.
André van de Loo, 9 Jun 2003