Flag: five horizontal stripes of red, white, blue, white, red, proportioned
2:1:2:1:2; on the cross a nine-pointed yellow star of 2/5 flagheight.
This village was in the Middle Ages a center, seat of the district
Winninghe at the Dokkumer Ie river. This district conincided with the later
Oostergo shire. Winninghe consisted of
two parts: the northern "nioghen" (nine), and the southern "nioghen",
named after the number of representatives each part could send to official
district-meetings. In the northern part were the "grytenijen" (municipalities)
of Ferwerderadiel, Dongeradiel
and Dantumadiel. The southern part consisted
of Ljouwerteradiel, Tytsjerksteradiel
and Idaarderadiel. The arms of Oostergo
is red with two silver fesses. The coat of arms of Wyns is not exactly
the same as the one of Oostergo, but it is based on that. The fesses have
been replaced by pales. The two nine-pointed stars symbolize the old form
of government. The wavy fess is the symbol of the Dokkumer Ie; this rivulet
is since ages the main means of communication for Wyns with Leeuwarden
and Dokkum.
Source: Doarpswapens en doarpsflaggen fan de doarpen yn de gemeente
Tytsjerksteradiel, 1996.
Jarig Bakker, 6 May 2004
Wyns Coat of Arms
by Jarig Bakker, 7 May 2004
adopted 22 Nov 1984; design: P. Bultsma
Description: in red two pales of silver, over all a wavy fess of blue,
with in chief and in base a nine-pointed star, both on the central red
pale.
Source: Doarpswapens en doarpsflaggen fan de doarpen yn de gemeente
Tytsjerksteradiel, 1996.
Jarig Bakker, 6 May 2004
![[Wyns flag]](../images/n/nl-fr_wn.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 7 May 2004
![[Wyns Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-fr)wn.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 7 May 2004
