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Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net
adopted 9 Jul 1991
The flag of the municipality of Heel has blue as its main color. The
white cross cuts through this main field, and is slightly off to the left
of the centre. On the left top is a yellow block, and on it a red horn.
The blue colour symbolises the situation on the Maas river. The four
main fields stand for Beegden, Heel, Panheel en Wessem.
The Christian belief is indicated by the white cross. The bond with
the Count of Horne is indicated by the red horn. The important position
on the flag, left top, indicates the intensity of this bond.
Source: the Heel municipal website.
Franc van Diest, 3 Nov 2000
![[Heel Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-li)he.jpg)
image from the Heel municipal website.
Granted 13 Dec 1991.
![[Beegden flag]](../images/n/nl-li_bg.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 1 Sep 2003
Beegden is a former municipality in Limburg province, since 1991 part
of the municipality of Heel, while some parts went to Haelen and Roermond.
It is at a stone's throw west of the city of Roermond, in the lake-area
west of the Maas-river in northern Limburg.
Flagdescription: two equally wide hvertical stripes; white with in
the center a red hunting horn armed white (black fimbriation against
white) with a height of 13/25 flagheight, and a width of 8/25 flaglength;
divided in stripes yellow- white - yellow - white - yellow - greenm, the
white stripes with a half, a whole and a half wave, all proportioned 8:3:3:3:8:25.
The whole flag proportioned 2:3.
The flag is derived from the municipal arms. The horn is from the arms
of the count of Horn, to which Beegden belonged. The green bottom-fly represents
the wood- and heathergrounds. The fly top is yellow with white waves representing
the Maas river. Yellow symbolizes agriculture and sandy soils.
The flag was adopted 24 Jun 1977 by municipal resolution. It was designed
by a Beegden citizen.
Source: Vexilla Nostra nr. 95, 1978.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Sep 2003
![[Wessem flag]](../images/n/nl-li_ws.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 18 Apr 2005
Wessem is a former municipality in Limburg province, along the Maas
river, opposite the city of Roermond, part of Heel since 1991.
Flag: two stripes quartered yellow and green at 1/3 flaglenth with
at top hoist a red horn and in bottom hoist a white fleur-de-lis, both
of 2/5 flagheigh, adopted 16 Sep 1975.
The horn tells that Wessem belonged to the County of Horn from 1219
till 1795. The lily is a representation of the Virgin Mary.
Wessem had in olden days city rights, as well as its own mint, which
produced the county-coinage; the mint was later moved to Weert. It is now
an important port on the Maas river, as well as an autoroute-hub.
Source: Derkwillem Visser's "Gemeentevlaggen en Wapens Koninkrijk
der Nederlanden", 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 18 Apr 2005
