Zwijnaarde

Country : Belgium Province : Oost-Vlaanderen Incorporated into : 1975 Gent 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":50.999899999999996680344338528811931610107421875,"lon":3.713499999999999801048033987171947956085205078125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon

Dutch	In keel met drie sleutels van zilver paalsgewijs geplaatst de baard omhoog en naar rechts gekeerd.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on July 31, 1935.

The arms show the three keys of the St. Pieters Abbey in Gent, to which the village belonged from around 900 to the 18th century.

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  The arms in the Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums +/- 1930

Literature: Servais, 1955

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