Brabant's Vessem Has Lost Its Old Municipal Flag: 'We Thought It Was in the Attic'

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The flag was supposed to become the showpiece of the new Day of the High Villages, but it has completely disappeared.

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In Vessem, a frantic search is underway for a fifty-year-old flag: red and white checkered, with an image of Saint Lambert in the upper left corner. For years, the banner fluttered proudly above the old town hall of Vessem, a recognizable symbol of the Kempen village. Until Vessem merged into the municipality of Eersel in 1997 and the flag silently disappeared from the mast. At the local history society De Hooge Dorpen, they could already pictur…