Greonterp: Flag: diagonal from top fly to hoist bottom of silver and blue;
in silver a red water lily leaf placed diagonal right.
coat of arms: per bend sinister of silver and blue; in silver a red water lily leaf
in bend.
Greonterp was in Wonseradeel before it
was incorporated in Wymbritseradeel. Together with the other 26 villages
in that municipality it received in 1955 a villageflag; the flag was similar
to the southern villages of Wonseradeel, see Tsjerkwerd,
Dedgum, Allingawier,
Exmorra, Hieslum,
Parrega, and Ferwoude.
The flag-project is described on the Wûnseradiel
page.
Since 1 Jan 1984 Greonterp is part of Wymbritseradiel municipality.
The old name was "Grevingeterp" (digging mound). Population (1958)
215; (2000) c. 100. The village is south of the town of Bolsward, and was
for school- and church-going purposes totally dependent of the Roman Catholic
village of Blauhûs. Greonterp's pride is its bell-cage, which after
a short occupation by the Blauhûster Dakkapel has been regained by
the villagers' collecting abilities.
The Dutch author Simon van het Reeve wrote this poem about Greonterp:
BOETPSALM Vol alcohol, zwaarmoedigheid, En eerbied voor de Maagd, Woon ik in Friesland. Niet mijn, Uw wil geschiede.
(Penitential psalm
Full of alcohol, melancholy,
and veneration of the Virgin,
I live in Fryslân,
Not my, Your will be done)
<This author made more enemies in Fryslân, than all Spaniards,
Geldersen, and Hollanders combined :-)>
Poem is at this
website.
Greonterp is in the vicinity of three tiny lakes: de Vliet, het Rietmeer
en het Sipkemeer, only yachtable by canoe and windsurfing planks.
Source: It Beaken, magazine of the Fryske Akademie, Dec 1969.
Jarig Bakker, 24 Sep 2003
Greonterp coat of arms
from It Beaken, magazine of the Fryske Akademie, Dec 1969.
![[Greonterp villageflag]](../images/n/nl-fr_gt.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker, 24 Sep 2003
See also:
![[Greonterp Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-fr)gt.jpg)
from It Beaken, magazine of the Fryske Akademie, Dec 1969.
