Andijk in Noord-Holland has 6.417 inhabitants on 47,70 km². It is
a municipality in the northeastern part of the province, Westfriesland.
It was originally a fishing village, abbreviation AD used on the vessels.
In 1811 it became an independent municipality, which received its Coat of Arms in
1816: a dikewatch on horse, carrying a flag with a blue field on which
the letters AD (see http://www.ngw.nl/a/andyk.htm
. This was after the flooding catastrophe of 1916, when Andijk escaped
the main misery, probably because of the watchfullness of the Andoiker
Hans Brinkers.
It gained national importance in 1926/27 when a pilot polder was created
in Andijk, as a preparation of the Zuiderzee-polders project. Since that
time it became an agricultural region.
Flag adopted by municipal resolution on 5 April 1976.
Jarig Bakker, 20 June 2001
Historical flag (unofficial)
by Jarig Bakker, 20 June 2001
I've made a gif of the old village flag (or dikewatch-flag) based on
Ralf
Hartemink's Coat of Arms, a flag used unofficially before the adoption of the
present one.
Jarig Bakker, 20 June 2001
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net
by Jarig Bakker, 20 June 2001
International
Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/.
