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![[Municipality flag of Weert]](../images/n/nl-wrt.gif)
Mark Sensen, 22 November 1996
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The flag of the Municipality of Weert was adopted 26 June 1980. It replaced a simple horizontal white over blue which was adopted 7 February 1962.
Mark Sensen, 22 March 1997
On 1 January 1989 the municipalities of Weert and Stramproy merged into a new municipality of Weert, which continued to use the flag of the old municipality of Weert.
Mark Sensen, 22 March 1997 and 14 October 1998
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![[Municipality flag of Stramproy]](../images/n/nl-stroy.gif)
Mark Sensen, 22 March 1997
The flag of the Dutch municipality of Stramproy combines the flags of Belgium
and the Netherlands. As a result of the 1839 Treaty of
London, Limburg was divided between the Netherlands and Belgium and the border
was drawn almost right through the municipality Stramproy. On 27 September 1988
(effective date 1 January 1989) the council adopted a flag designed by its
mayor, Beckers: horizontal black-yellow-red-white blue. The red stripe is twice
the height of the other stripes because in the local dialect the abbreviation of
the town (Rooi) sounds very much like "red".
On 1 January 1989 the municipalities of Weert and Stramproy
merged into a new municipality of Weert, which continued to use the flag of the
old municipality of Weert.
Mark Sensen, 22 March 1997
![[Standard of Weert in 1938]](../images/n/nl-wrt38.gif)
Mark Sensen, 31 August 1997
![[Standard of Stramproy in 1938]](../images/n/nl-str38.gif)
Mark Sensen, 31 August 1997
During the jubilees of Queen Wilhelmina in 1938, when she was reigning 40 years, each municipality had a standard, witch had the following pattern: a square flag with the colours of the provincial arms (except Friesland and Noord-Brabant), in the canton (one quarter of the flag) the arms of the municipality.
In Weert a standard was used with the colours of Limburg, and in the canton on white a blue chevron.
In Stramproy a standard was used with the colours of Limburg, and in the
canton a square representation of the coat of arms: divided per pale, dexter red
with a silver castle with three towers, sinister on silver St. Willibrordus.
In some municipalities the flag was forgotten, and when they found many years
later they thought it was a historical flag of the city, like in Stramproy where
it was used as unofficial flag before 1988.
Mark Sensen, 31 August 1997
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