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Epe (The Netherlands)

Gelderland province

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flag never officially adopted.

Epe municipality
Unofficial flag
Emst village flag

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Epe municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 33.245; area: 157,24 km². Settlements: Epe (seat), Boshoek, Dijkhuizen, Emst, Geerstraat, Gortel, Hanendorp, Hegge, Jonas, 't Laar, Laarstraat, Loobrink, Niersen, Oene, Oosterhof, Schaveren, Tongeren, Vaassen, Vemde, Westendorp, Wijnbergen, Wissel, Zuuk.
Epe is another Veluwe municipality in the north of the province, with forests and heather.
The flag is described in Sierksma's 'Nederlands vlaggenboek', 1962 as follows: 'The unofficial flag of Epe is horizontally YB, used at special occasions, quite popular with the shopkeepers. The municipal council uses a banner with the same colors with in the canton the municipal CoA.' In Sierksma's 'Gemeentewapens van Nederland', 1968. The CoA symbolizes the former oak-forests, where many deer were to be found. The original municipal colors (of CoA and flag) were RW.
Jarig Bakker, 22 September 1999

Unofficial flag

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Emst village flag

by Jarig Bakker, 30 Sep 2004
adopted 2000; design: Mr. Vijge

Emst is a village in the Veluwe region, municipality Epe, Gelderland province.
Its flag was chosen after a design competition in 2000.
The circular form symbolizes the central position of Emst in Epe municipality.
The wooden hay-shed represents the countryside.
The general division in four rectangles is for the four villages in the municipality: Epe, Oene, Emst & Vaassen
Green symbolizes the green Veluwe area.
Brown is for the wooded area.
Yellow is for the Veluwe sand, grain and sunny aspects of life in general and in Emst in particular
Blue is for water in brooks, channels, watercourses, pools.
Design: Mr. Vijge.
Source: Emst village website, spotted by Mr. Hans van Heijningen.

Note: a hay-shed consisted of four large poles, which sustained a pyramid-shaped wooden roof, which could be lowered and lifted depending of the amount of hay in the shed. Its secondary significance was that one could judge the wealth of the farmer by the hay left in hard times. Suitors passed the sheds where there was no hay visible...
Jarig Bakker, 30 Sep 2004