Zeewolde is an municipality in Flevoland the youngest province of the Netherlands. If we don't include the municipal merger in recent years, Zeewolde the youngest municipality created from scratch in 1984. Flevoland is reclaimed land from the former sea called Zuiderzee, now it's called IJsselmeer an freshwater lake. In 1968 the southern part was reclaimed, in the 70s the first farmers came and early 80s citizens slowly flocked in. Initially the idea was to grow at an population of 5 thousand to keep it an village. It steadily grow to an small town with an population of around 22 thousand. So the history is recent but that is not entirely true because before the Zuiderzee there was land in the early Middle Ages and there was map with an place called Seaewald around the 8th century. Like other places in Flevoland most named after places of that era. So let's take an look at the flag.
The flag has an blue bsckground with three ever-widening stripes in colours green and yellow. The name Zeewolde had the do with the colours. The part "zee" means "sea", the colour of the sea is blue. "Wolde" is old Dutch for forest and the colour for that is green. The yellow comes from the agricultural weekly years grain was the main crop, so that the explanation for yellow. Clever symbolism of an modern looking flag of an young municipality.
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