Libin (Municipality, Province of Luxembourg, Belgium)

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Municipal flag of Libin - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 1 0ctober 2005

• Presentation of Libin and its villages
• Municipal flag of Libin

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• Belgium
• Province of Luxembourg: Municipal flags
• Belgium: Municipal flags

Presentation of Libin and its villages

The municipality of Libin (4,298 inhabitants; 13.972 ha) is located on the western border of the massif of Ardenne, 20 km north-west of Neuchâteau. It is made since 1976 of the former municipalities of Anloy, Libin, Ochamps, Smuid (Smu), Transinne and Villance. Half of the municipal territory is covered with forests watered bu the rivers Lesse, Lhomme and Our.

The seven villages forming Libin are:
- Anloy, a martyre village trashed by the Germans after the battle of Luchy in August 1914
- Libin, the adminsitrative center of the municipality
- Ochamps, located near the sources of the Lesse; the former golden mine and later peat bog of Troufferies is today a nature reserve
- Redu, watered by the Lesse and the Our, since 1984 famous for its bookshops and visited every year by more than 300,000; the village is known as Village du Livre (Book's Village)
- Smuid, the most beautiful of the seven villages, watered by the Lhomme
- Transinne, famous for the Euro Space Center dedicated to the space conquest
- Villance, located on the upper Lesse, probably the oldest of the seven villages, already mentioned in the Xth century in a document from the abbey of Prüm.

Source: Municipal website

Ivan Sache, 1 October 2005

Municipal flag of Libin

The municipal flag of Libin is vertically divided red-white (1:2) with three open books placed vertically in the red field and a red fer de moline placed in the white field. It is exactly the design proposed by the Heraldry and Vexillology Council of the French Community and presented in Armoiries communales en Belgique. Communes wallonnes, bruxelloises et germanophones as:

Le tiers à la hampe rouge chargé de trois livres ouverts blancs l'un au dessus de l'autre, les deux tiers au large blancs à une grande anille rouge.

The flag is a near banner of the municipal arms, with the chief of the arms rotated and placed along the hoist. There is no available explanation of these arms, but its elements probably refer to traditional activities in Libin; the fer de moline refers to the several mills which were powered by the rivers and the books may refer to the Book's Village of Redu.

Arnaud Leroy, Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 1 October 2005