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Oud-Heverlee (Municipality, Province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium)

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Municipal flag of Oud-Heverlee - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 9 November 2005

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Presentation of Oud-Heverlee and its villages

The municipality of Oud-Heverlee (10,794 inhabitants in July 2005; 3,113 ha) is located on the linguistic border between French and Dutch, 5 km south of Leuven and close to the grounds of the Katholiek Universitet Leuven (KUL, the Dutch-speaking part of the Catholic University of Leuven). Forty percent of the municipal territory is covered by the woods of Heverlee and Meerdaal. The municipality is formed since 1976 of the five former municipalities of Oud-Heverlee, Sint-Joris-Weert, Blanden, Haasrode and Vaalbeek.
Oud-Heverlee is in a hilly region (from 25 m a.s.l. in the valley of Dijle to 98 m in the Mollendaal wood in Haasrode). The city is watered by the Dijle and the Vaalbeek. The brook Nethen is the border between the villages of Oud-Heverlee and Sint-Joris-Weert, in the south of the municipality.

Blanden (2,400 inh.; 414 ha) is located between the woods of Heverlee and Meerdaal. The village was built along the Naamsesteenweg (can it be translated as the paved way to Namur?), a road set up in 1755 under the Austrian rule.
Haasrode (2,600 inh.; 1,291 ha) is the largest village of Oud-Heverlee, mostly covered by the Meerdaal wood.
Oud-Heverlee (3,500 inh.; 756 ha) is the most crowdy village of the municipality. The western border of the municipality with Korbeek-Dijle is made by the meandering Dijle. Oud-Heverlee has kept significant woody areas, such as the Heverlee and Kouter woods.
Sint-Joris-Weert (1,800 inh., 395 ha) is the second smallest village of Oud-Heverlee.
Vaalbeek (400 inh.; 257 ha) is the smallest village of Oud-Heverlee. The village is locally known as 't Zenneke, a nickname related to the sandy soil of the village. The city hall of Oud-Heverlee is located on the central square of Vaalbeek.

Source: Jan Vanautgaerden's website

Ivan Sache, 9 November 2005

Municipal flag of Oud-Heverlee

The municipal flag of Oud-Heverlee is vertically divided red-yellow-red (1:2:1) with the municipal coat of arms in the middle of the red stripe.
According to Gemeentewapens in België - Vlaanderen en Brussel, the flag and arms were adopted by the Municipal Council on 28 April 1988, confirmed by the Executive of Flanders on 5 October 1988 and published in the municipal gazette on 8 November 1989.

The municipal coat of arms of Oud-Heverlee is:
Per pale or a chevron or two crosslets gules in chief a crescent of the same in base, or a saltire gules.
The dexter part of these arms is the former coat of arms of Haasrode, their sinister part is the former coat of arms of Vaalbeek.

Arnaud Leroy, Pascal Vagnat, Jarig Bakker & Ivan Sache, 9 November 2005