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Adoption date unknown
The merger took place on 1 Jan 1998.
Franc Van Diest, 24 February 2001.
Flag: "Length-height relationship: 3:2. The flag is white. At a quarter
of the length, measured from the hoist, is the complete Coat of Arms of the municipality.
On top and at the bottom the flag has a black stripe, width 1/5 of the
flag-height, with ten adjacent green triangles, arranged over the full
length of the flag, the points pointing inwards."
Jarig Bakker, 21 May 1999
International
Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Emmen
Coat of Arms: "Per saltire in argent and vert; the top quarter charged
with a turning plough ('keerploeg'), the bottom quarter with a peat-cutter,
both in sable." - Granted 4 Jun 1968.
Jarig Bakker, 21 May 1999
Schoonebeek is now part of the municipality of Emmen (Drenthe, the Netherlands);
it was important because oil was found there.
The flag was adopted 24 September 1954 by the municipal council. It
was derived from the municipal Coat of Arms. The eagle was derived from the shield
of the lordship Coevorden, to which this municipality formerly belonged.
The blue stripe refers to the 'Schoonebeker Diep' (the canal splitting
the municipality in two). Source: Sierksma's Vlaggenboek (1962) & Gemeentewapens
(1968).
Jarig Bakker, 5 August 1999.
Description: I. Or an eagle gules; II. Argent a wavy fess azure.