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![[Ghent/Gent]](../images/b/be-vovge.gif)
Municipal flag of Ghent - Image by Mark Sensen, 10 May 1999, after an official image communicated by Jan de Baets [Voorlichtingsdienst Stad Gent - Information Service of the City of Ghent)]
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The flag of Ghent was adopted on 9 October 1990 by Decree of the Flemish Minister of Culture, after the approval by the Flemish Heraldic Counci. The picture in the Decree is different from the image shown above, so it might be that the municipal authorities have redrawn the flag so that it would be nicer.
Pascal Vagnat, 10 May 1999
![[Former flag of Ghent]](../images/b/be-vovg1.gif)
![[Former flag of Ghent]](../images/b/be-vovg2.gif)
Former municipal flags of Ghent, c. 1900 - Images by Ivan Sache, 12 June 2005
Nouveau Larousse Illustré, Dictionnaire Universel
Encyclopédique (7 volumes, published in Paris, 1898-1904) shows the flags of the main Belgian cities, then based on the traditional colours of the cities.
Two flags are shown for Ghent, the first horizontally divided black and white and the second vertically divided black and white.
Jan Martens & Ivan Sache, 12 June 2005
![[Banner of the Ghent weavers]](../images/b/be-gewev.gif)
Flag of the Ghent Weavers' Guild - Image by Filip Van Laenen, 29 January 1997
A XIVth-century drawing shows a flag with the lion of Flanders, the lion of Ghent and a third lion flanked by two golden netting needles. The lion is blue, on a red field, with golden tongue and claws. This flag probably belonged to the Ghent Weavers' Guild.
Filip Van Laenen, 29 January 1997
Founded in 1965, Gentse Roei- en Sportvereniging (Ghent Rowing and Sports Club) is a rowing and sports club with its seat near the Watersportbaan. The club has something to offer for everyone but is especially proud of its international results, including placing Olympic
finalists, which is, after all, not a small matter for a relatively young
club in a small country.
The GRS burgee, as shown on a photography, is a large pennant, horizontally divided black-white-black (the Ghent colours), with on the white stripe crossed black-and-white oars (near the hoist) and large black initials "GRS" (no serifs) distributed evenly. Directly under the oars appears the
founding year "1965", in white on the lower black stripe.
Source: GRS website
Jan Mertens, 25 May 2007
![[KGWV burgee]](../images/b/be~kgwv.gif)
Burgee of KGWV - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 June 2002
The KGWV burgee is made of two red triangles placed vertically along the hoist and a yellow lozenge. The lozenge does not reach the hoist of the burgee.
Source: KGWV website
Ivan Sache, 15 June 2002
The Koninklijke Roeivereniging Sport Gent (Royal Rowing Club Sport
Ghent), situated at the Watersportbaan since 1961, is housed in a large clubhouse and
adjacent buildings. Founded in 1883 as Sport Nautique de
Gand, the club started out modestly but was a founding member of the first
Belgian rowing confederation four years later.
In 1898 the first flag, in the new colours blue and white, was presented to
the club (the initial club colours were black and white). Two years later a
different flag, light blue with white lettering "Sport Nautique de Gand 1883"
was adopted at the request of the Belgian rowing federation in order to
differentiate the club from the local Cercle des Régates.
Around 1890 SNG had become the foremost rowing club in Belgium and
international successes would follow. The royal appellation, Société Royale de Sport Nautique de Gand, was granted in 1907 after a resounding victory at Henley; use of the French language was a sign of the times.
After the Second World War, the club was active in promoting the Watersportbaan, finished and
dedicated in 1955. In 1964 a new name was adopted, Koninklijke
Roeivereniging "Sport Nautique" Gent, and put on the new flag presented in
1971; three years later the current name, now completely Dutch, was
introduced.
A photography shows the KRSG burgee, with light blue triangles defining a white field (at hoist est. 3:1:3, white in centre) bearing a red royal crown. Another photography shows a very unusual rendering of the crown, red with yellow holding lines.
Source: KRSG website
Jan Martens, 30 May 2007
Leiesnelvaarders (Fast Motor Boaters on the River Leie), founded in 1963, is a
club established at Drongen near Ghent; a number of places such as Antwerp and Bruges, not to mention nearby Zeeland are easily reached by inland waterways.
The LSV burgee, as "shown" on a photography, is yellow with a dark blue triangle and the white letters "LSV" placed vertically in the blue triangle.
Jan Mertens, 14 January 2007
![[Flag of the University of Ghent]](../images/b/be_ugent.gif)
Flag of the State University of Ghent - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 January 2006
The flag of the State University of Ghent is a vertically divided blue and yellow, as shown by a photography of the campus.
The flag of the University Hospital of Ghent (Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent) has the cypher of the Hospital added on the blue-yellow flag, as shown on the Hospital website.
Jan Mertens & Ivan Sache, 24 March 2007
