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Reahûs (The Netherlands)

Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân province

image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Sep 2003
adopted 1999; Design: J.C. Terluin and R.J. Broersma.

Reahûs village (Roodhuis)
Reahûs coat of arms

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Reahûs village (Roodhuis)

Reahûs (Dutch: Roodkerk), village in Littenseradiel, Fryslân province. It was a village in Hennaarderadeel, until 1956 a hamlet under Easterein (Oosterend) village. Population (1958): 235; (1974): 168. It is a Roman Catholic enclave in a predominantly Protestant environment. The origin of Reahûs was a farm with a roof of red tiles; since 1639 it is named as a stage (statie) in Roman Catholic processions (from St. Jacobiparochi to Santiago de Compostella?).
Reahûs coat of arms: in silver a blue cross, over all a red house in the form of a farmhouse; in chief green with a turned golden chevron.
Flag: white with a blue cross, and a red hoist-triangle.
The blue cross refers to the Roman Catholic religion, and the Frisian farmhouse (stjelp) to the original farm. The chief refers to the road, named Slachtedyk, north of the village. The golden chevron symbolizes the lock of the "Sânleanster syl" in the Slachte.
In the flag the roof of the farmhouse (seen in front) has been placed in the hoist, connected to the blue cross on the arms.
Design: J.C. Terluin and R.J. Broersma, members of the Fryske Rie foar Heraldyk.
Source: Genealogysk Jierboekje 2001.
Encyclopedie van Friesland, 1958.
Jarig Bakker, 6 Sep 2003

I guess Reahûs/Roodhuis means red house. (Correct (ed.))
A "statie" would be a station during a procession, by analogy with the Stations of the Cross. I believe a trip from Frisland to Galicia would be call a pilgrimage rather than a procession.
There is a Corpus Christi procession every year in my neighborhood, but pilgrims would most probably go to Lourdes.
A procession is usually a one-day ceremony with stations and altars of repose (provisory altars dressed up to receive the Holy Sacrament during the Corpus Christi procession, for instance).
Of course, Roodhuis could also have been a stage on a pilgrimage, too.
Ivan Sache, 7 Sep 2003

Reahûs coat of arms

from Wapens en Flaggen fan Littenseradiel, booklet of the municipality.