Zandvliet

	ZANDVLIET Country : Belgium Province : Antwerpen Incorporated into: 1958 Antwerpen Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":51.3592000000000012960299500264227390289306640625,"lon":4.30830000000000001847411112976260483264923095703125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
Dutch	Twee schilden; het eerste van zilver met een gegolfde dwarsbalk van lazuur, het tweede van keelmet twee leliestengels van zilver, schuinkruiselings opgesteld met een kruis van hetzelfde over alles heen. deze twee schilden geplaatst - het eerste rechts, het tweede links - vóór een rechtstaande Sint Gertrudis, houdende in de rechterhand een open boek en in de linkerhand haar staf, schuinlinks geplaatst en waarop, langs de schacht, twee muizen kruipen, dit alles van goud.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on March 17, 1950.

The arms show the local patron saint St. Gertrudis behind the two shields.

The arms were based on the oldest known seal of Zandvliet, dating from 1692. The left shield with the blue bar most likely is the proper arms of the village and may symbolise the Schelde river. The right shield shows the arms of the St. Michaels Abbey in Antwerpen, which owned the village and had the local church rebuilt in 1648 after the Spanish had burned it down.

Literature: Servais, 1955

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