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![[Burgh former municipality]](../images/n/nl-ze_bu.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Mar 2008
adopted c. 1938
At this
webpage one van see a fresh flag: four horizontal stripes yellow -
red - blue - white, with a white canton charged with a black burgh.
This villageflag is used at important occasions like the annual "ringsteken"
- a married couple in a tilbury, drawn by a smartly dressed horse, tries
to hit a ring held by a moving hand; if he or she misses the couple gets
a bucket of water or even worse splashed over its heads.
Another
site advertises holidayresidences and the villageflag "vlag van
de voormalige gemeente Burgh, zelfstandig tot 1961" (flag of the former
municipality of Burgh, independent till 1961).
According to Willem van Ham the advertiser could be right, as the flag
could what Klaes Sierksma called a "defileervlag", a parading flag,
used in 1938 at the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina's 40th coronation day.
For Zeeland that was the Zeeland
flag of the time with the municipal arms in the canton.
The Burgh coat of arms is: argent a double castle noir. The arms were
approved 1815; I have used the one in the Koffie Hag album.
The origin of the arms is not known. A "burgh" was built by the Franks
c. 700, consisting of an earthen wall fortified by planks and poles, all
surrounded by a dry moat, This was the "Hooge Burgh" (High Burgh), on the
island of Schouwen. Remnants have been recovered in the beginning of the
20th century.
So far nothing has been found to prove the existence of the impressive
sombre black burgh.
Mr. van Ham adds: "If one claim by that advertiser is possibly right
it need not necessarily mean that all other claims are correct!"
Jarig Bakker, 19 Mar 2008
![[Burgh coat of arms]](../images/n/nl-ze}bu.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Mar 2008