Flag: two horizontal stripes of blue and yellow, proportioned 1:2; over
all at 1/3 flaglength a Mercury staff, in blue of white and in yellow of
red, af c. 8/9 flagheight.
Holwerd (Frisian: Holwert) is one of the only villages which is steadily
growing; at present over 2000 inhabitants. From Holwerd one can sail toward
the island of Ameland, a popular holiday-resort. The pier of Holwerd is
a very vexy sight with a lot of Rijkswaterstaat-flags and houseflags of
Wagenborgen and flags of Fryslân and the Netherlands. The emblem
on the flag is of Mercury, the god of the trade, for which this village
was renowned. In the 19th century it even had a bookshop, run by the famous
Frisian writer Waling Dykstra. The coast on which Holwerd lies is rather
straight from east to west, which is symbolized
on the flag by the horizontal stripes (which it has - more or less
- in common with the three other coastal villages Engwierum,
Paesens-Moddergat and Wierum). Blue is for the Waddenzee, yellow for
land (a lot of wheat used to be grown here).
Jarig Bakker, 29 October 2000
Holwerd Coat of Arms
by Jarig Bakker, 2 May 2004
Description: "In gold a red Mercury staf; in chief blue with a turned
white crescent".
The crescent is from the arms of Ameland.
Source: "Anoniem, 1994 (Wapens en vlaggen van Dongeradeel)"
by Jarig Bakker, 2 May 2004
![[Holwerd Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-fr)hw.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 2 May 2004
