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Municipal flag of Lubbeek - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 August 2007
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The municipality of Lubbeek (13,740 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 4,613 ha) is located in the region of Hageland, between Leuven and Tienen. The municipality of Lubbeek is made since 1976 of the former municipalities of Lubbeek (5,303 inh.; 2,428 ha), Binkom (1,459 inh.; 777 ha), Linden (4,627 inh.; 599 ha) and Pellenberg (2,196 inh.; 809 ha). The Molenberg hill in Pellenberg is the higest point in Flemish Brabant, 106 m asl.
The region of Hageland was settled by the Roman in the Ist century BC. Some of the
funerary tumuli erected by the Romans have remained there until the
XIXth century and were the sources of several legends, the most famous
of them saying they were inhabited by Alvermannekens, small guys very
fond of white and black magic, and also fond of good food: when the
villagers served them good food, they helped them, while they used
black magic when the food was not good enough. There are nearly no
Frankish remains in Lubbeek but the area was christened for sure in the
VIIth-VIIIth centuries.
The name of the villages appeared after year 1000. Lubbeek might mean
"a brook (beek) with steep banks"; Linden probably refers to a linde
planted to mark the border between two domains; Binkom was probably
Benno or Bajo's estate; Pellenberg, named only in the XVIIth century,
is either the short form of Kappellenberg, "the chapel's hill" or a
bastardization of Galgenberg, "the gallows' hill". In the Middle Ages,
Lubbeek belonged to the Duchy of Brabant; the Mayor of Lubbeek ran some
10 villages, including Linden and Pellenberg. Binkom depended on
Kumtich. Linden formed a separate domain, which never happened to
Lubbeek, Binkom or Pellenberg, the latter being directly ruled by the
Duke of Brabant. Because of transfers made by the Duke of Brabant to
several lords and abbeys, the administrative situation of Lubbeek was
extremely complicated.
During the Spanish rule, Pellenberg became a Royal domain, erected a
Barony in the XVIIth century. Linden was completely destroyed by a
Spanish garrison in the XVIth century, while the other villages
experienced several damages from the unrest. The inauguration of the
paved road between Leuven and Tienen in 1781 boosted the development of
Lubbeek, which was even increased by the opening of a steam tramway
line at the end of the XIXth century, later replaced by an electric
tramway suppressed in 1960.
The castle of Pellenberg was the place of the peace discussions between
Belgium and the Netherlands in 1831.
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 29 August 2007
The municipal flag of Lubbeek is quartered black and yellow.
According to Gemeentewapens in België - Vlaanderen en Brussel, the flag was adopted by the Municipal Council on 22 October 1980, confirmed by Royal Decree on 11
February 1981 and published in the Belgian official gazette on 13 March
1981. The Council's original application was lost and the process
resumed in 1993: the flag was adopted by the Municipal Council on 31
August 1993, confirmed by the Executive of Flanders on 8 February 1994
and published in the Belgian official gazette on 29 June 1994.
The colours of the flag are taken from the municipal arms, which are the arms of
the Dukes of Brabant, "Sable a lion or armed and langued gules". The quartering of the flag must stand for the four former municipalities merged into the new municipality of Lubbeek.
According to Servais, the arms of Lubbeek were granted by Royal Decree on 23 July 1858. The municipal seals consistently show the arms of Brabant form the XIVth century onwards.
Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 29 August 2007
