Het Hogeland
Municipality
Bedum Winsum Uithuizen Uithuizermeeden Warffum Leens Baflo
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Groningen
Coordinates: 53°24′49″N 6°40′38″E / 53.41361°N 6.67722°E / 53.41361; 6.67722
Country	Netherlands
Province	Groningen
Established	1 January 2019
Government
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Henk Jan Bolding (CDA)
Area
• Total	907.63 km2 (350.44 sq mi)
• Land	485.72 km2 (187.54 sq mi)
• Water	421.91 km2 (162.90 sq mi)
Population  (July 2019)
• Total	47,861
Website	hethogeland.nl

Het Hogeland is a municipality in the north of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.

History[edit]

The municipality of Het Hogeland was established on 1 January 2019 by merging the municipalities of Bedum, De Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum.

Geography[edit]

Het Hogeland is located around 53°25′N 6°41′E / 53.417°N 6.683°E / 53.417; 6.683 in the north of the province of Groningen and in the northeast of the Netherlands.

The population centers in the municipality are: Broek, Eemshaven, Eenrum, Ellerhuizen, Eppenhuizen, Hornhuizen, Houwerzijl, Kantens, Kleine Huisjes, Kloosterburen, Kruisweg, Lauwersoog, Leens, Mensingeweer, Molenrij, Niekerk, Noordwolde, Oldenzijl, Onderdendam, Oosteinde, Oosternieland, Oudeschip, Pieterburen, Roodeschool, Rottum, Schouwerzijl, Startenhuizen, Stitswerd, Uithuizen, Uithuizermeeden, Ulrum, Usquert, Vierhuizen, Warfhuizen, Warffum, Wehe-den Hoorn, Westerdijkshorn, Westernieland, Zandeweer, Zoutkamp, Zuidwolde and Zuurdijk.

Government[edit]

Henk Jan Bolding of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) is mayor of Het Hogeland.

Transport[edit]

The Sauwerd–Roodeschool railway connects the railway stations at Warffum, Usquert, Uithuizen, Uithuizermeeden and Roodeschool to Groningen railway station and the rest of the Dutch railway network.

Notable people[edit]

Public thinking & public service[edit]

• Rodolphus Agricola (ca.1443 in Baflo – 1485) a pre-Erasmian humanist, Hebrew scholar, educator, musician and builder of a church organ
• Wigbolt, Baron Ripperda (ca.1535 in Winsum – 1573) city governor of Haarlem when the city was under siege in the Eighty Years' War
• Willem Surenhuis (c.1664 in Rottum – 1729) a Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew
• Hendrik Bulthuis (1865 in Warffum – 1945) a Dutch customs official, author and translator of more than thirty works into Esperanto
• Gezina van der Molen (1892 in Baflo - 1978) legal scholar and resistance fighter during WW11
• Cornelis Simon Meijer (1904 in Pieterburen – 1974) a Dutch mathematician and academic
• Sicco Mansholt (1908 in Ulrum – 1995) a Dutch politician and diplomat
• Aldert van der Ziel (1910 in Zandeweer – 1991) a Dutch physicist who studied electronic noise processes
• Molly Geertsema (1918–1991) politician and jurist, Mayor of Warffum 1953-1957
• Martin Zijlstra (1944 in Eenrum – 2014) a Dutch politician
• Gert Hekma (born 1951 in Bedum) a Dutch anthropologist, sociologist and academic
• Klaas Knot (born 1967 in Bedum) a Dutch economist, President of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank

The arts[edit]

• Hermanus Numan (1744 in Ezinge – 1820) painter, draftsman, pastellist, etcher, engraver, watercolorist, art theorist and publisher
• Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882 in Leens – 1945) an experimental Dutch artist, typographer and printer
• Frits Peutz (1896 in Uithuizen – 1974) architect
• Seth Gaaikema (1939 in Uithuizen – 2014) cabaret artist, writer, and lyricist
• Ede Staal (1941 in Warffum – 1986) a Dutch singer-songwriter, sang mainly in Gronings dialect
• Freek de Jonge (born 1944 in Westernieland) a Dutch cabaret performer and writer ^[1]

Sport[edit]

• Arjen Robben (born 1984 in Bedum) professional footballer for FC Bayern Munich and the Netherlands national football team with 420 and 96 caps respectively
• Ranomi Kromowidjojo (born 1990 in Sauwerd) Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• (in Dutch) Official website