Boalsert [Friesland, Municipality] (The Netherlands)

Bolsward [Friesland, Gemeente] (Nederland)

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Bolsward/Boalsert is one of the eleven cities of Fryslbn; since the municipal reorganization it contains parts of surrounding municipalities. The city folks speak a mixture of Dutch and Frisian ('Stadsfries'), which applies equally to Leeuwarden, Dokkum, Sneek and Harlingen.

Boalsert's flag was adopted 6 May 1955 and contains the double eagle, to which all Hanseatic cities were entitled. The heartshield is the CoA of the old division of Westergo, of which Boalsert was the centre. That centre-position is reflected by the imperial crown within the CoA of Westergo. Source: Sierksma, Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962

Jarig Bakker, 19 August 1999

Bolsward:
The city flag, established on 6-5-1955, is as follows: "Three stripes of black and yellow, 1 : 3 : 1, with at the hoist side on the yellow a black double eagle, armed red, bearing a heart-shield of blue, charged with a white bent sinister (Westergo) over which a yellow Emperal crown, lined red."

Under Bolsward it says the eagle on the flag is the same as on the shield, and that the shield is:
Or a double eagle sable, langued, armed, and beaked gules.

Bolsward CoA

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