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adopted 24 May 1971.
At the same time a municipal standard was taken into use, with the same
description, but with overall proportions 1:1.
source: Derkwillem Visser's Gemeentevlaggen en wapens Koninkrijk
der Nederlanden, 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003
Until 1938 a colorful horizontal two-striped black over white flag was
unofficially in use.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003
A new flag was adopted 22 Jul 1938, probably on the occasion of Queen
Wilhelmina's 40 years reigning jubilee.
Description: two equally wide horizontal stripes of black and white
with in the canton the municipal arms, fimbriated white.
The colors are derived from the municipal arms.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek 1962. [sie62]
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003
The Coat of Arms of Zeist was granted 11 Sept 1816. Blazon: argent in
chief embattled noir.
This was the Coat of Arms of the Van Seijst family, mentioned already in the
12th century. This family was the oldest known family which owned Zeist
Austerlitz is a village in de municipality of Zeist, Utrecht province.
It originated in a military camp of the French, which was there during
and after the battle at Austerlitz (now Slavkov
u Brna, Czech Republic), where Napoleon defeated the Austrians and
Russians in 1805. In the winter of 1805/'06 the French commander had the
Pyramid of Austerlitz erected just outside the village (and beyond the
village boundary).
On Sunday morning, 2 Dec 1972, 9.00 the Mayor of Zeist, assisted by
local prominent people, hoisted the village flag of Austerlitz, after the
national and municipal flag had been raised. The flag was designed by the
Stichting Heraldiek en Banistiek in consultation with the Austerlitz citizens.
The flag contains the most striking village-feature: the pump! (The 'pyramid"
is outside the village boundary).
Description: three horizontal stripe of green and white; in the hoist
a turned white hoist-triangle and a white triangle; the center of the white
stripe has a geen disk of 1/10 flagheight; on the base of the hoist-triangle
narrow green stripes have been added in such a way that the letter "A"
can be discerned.
Viewed from the fly the silhouette of the village pump is clearly visible!
<and I may add: the pyramid has been smuggled in too!>
Source: Vexilla Nostra 1973 nr. VIII.
Jarig Bakker, 28 Aug 2003