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Municipal flag of Hemiksem - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 30 April 2006
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The municipality of Hemiksem (9,551 inhabitants on 1 July 2005; 5,440
ha) is located on the Scheldt, neighbouring Antwerp in the south-west.
The main historical building in Hemiksem is the St. Bernard abbey
(Sint-Bernardusabdij), bought by Cistercian monks in 1244. In the
Middle Ages, the abbey was an important cultural and religious center.
It was later sized, burnt down and sold. It was used as a prison and
military headquarters until 1977. The municipality of Hemiksem
purchased the abbey in 1988. The western facade and the towers were
restored and house today branches of the municipal administration;
other parts of the abbey are still waiting for restoration.
A room of the abbey houses a museum dedicated to church ceramist Joseph
Roelants, who has decorated several churches in Belgium and abroad.
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2006
The municipal flag of Hemiksem is vertically divided
white-blue-white-blue-white with an horizontal serrated red stripe in
the middle, surmonted by three black martlets each placed in a white
stripe.
According to Gemeentewapens in België - Vlaanderen en Brussel, the flag and arms were adopted by the Municipal Council on 25 February 1988, confirmed by the Executive of
Flanders on 9 May 1989 and published in the Belgian official gazette on
8 November 1989.
The flag is a banner of the municipal arms, the martlets being bigger
on the flag than on the arms.
Arnaud Leroy, Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 30 April 2006