Het Hogeland

Municipality in Groningen, Netherlands

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]

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Het Hogeland, April 2019

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]

Wigbolt Ripperda

* Rodolphus Agricola (c. 1443 in Baflo – 1485) pre-Erasmian humanist, Hebrew scholar, educator, musician and builder of a church organ
* Wigbolt, Baron Ripperda (c. 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) Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew
* Hendrik Bulthuis (1865 in Warffum – 1945) 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 WWII
* Cornelis Simon Meijer (1904 in Pieterburen – 1974) Dutch mathematician and academic
* Sicco Mansholt (1908 in Ulrum – 1995) Dutch politician and diplomat
* Aldert van der Ziel (1910 in Zandeweer – 1991) 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) Dutch politician
* Gert Hekma (born 1951 in Bedum) Dutch anthropologist, sociologist and academic
* Klaas Knot (born 1967 in Bedum) Dutch economist, president of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank

### The arts[edit]

Freek de Jonge, 2010

* Hermanus Numan (1744 in Ezinge – 1820) painter, draftsman, pastellist, etcher, engraver, watercolorist, art theorist and publisher
* Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882 in Leens – 1945) 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) Dutch singer-songwriter, sang mainly in Gronings dialect
* Freek de Jonge (born 1944 in Westernieland) 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]

1. ^ IMDb Database retrieved 10 August 2019

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Het Hogeland.

* (in Dutch) Official website

Places adjacent to Het Hogeland

| Schiermonnikoog (FR) / Wadden Sea | North Sea
Wadden Sea |

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Populated places in the municipality of Het Hogeland

Villages|

* Adorp
* Den Andel
* Baflo
* Bedum
* Eenrum
* Hornhuizen [nl]
* Houwerzijl
* Kantens
* Kleine Huisjes
* Kloosterburen
* Lauwersoog
* Leens
* Mensingeweer
* Niekerk [nl]
* Noordwolde
* Oldenzijl
* Onderdendam
* Oosteinde
* Oosternieland
* Oudeschip
* Pieterburen
* Rasquert [nl]
* Roodeschool
* Rottum
* Saaxumhuizen [nl]
* Sauwerd
* Stitswerd
* Tinallinge [nl]
* Uithuizen
* Uithuizermeeden
* Ulrum
* Usquert
* Warffum
* Warfhuizen
* Wehe-den Hoorn
* Westernieland
* Wetsinge
* Winsum
* Zandeweer
* Zoutkamp
* Zuidwolde
* Zuurdijk [nl]

Hamlets|

* Bellingeweer
* Bethlehem
* Dingen
* Doodstil
* Eemshaven
* Eppenhuizen
* Harssens
* Noordpolderzijl
* Obergum
* Startenhuizen
* Groot & Klein Wetsinge

List of cities, towns and villages in Groningen

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Municipalities of Groningen

* Eemsdelta
* Groningen
* Het Hogeland
* Midden-Groningen
* Oldambt
* Pekela
* Stadskanaal
* Veendam
* Westerkwartier
* Westerwolde

* See also
* Netherlands
* Provinces
* Municipalities

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