Gooise Meren

Gooise Meren
Gooise Meren
Municipality
	Bussum across from city hall Aerial view of the historic city of Naarden Aerial view of Muiden and Muiden Castle Dorpsstraat in Muiderberg
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location in North Holland
	Coordinates: 52°17′00″N 5°10′00″E / 52.2833°N 5.1667°E
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Holland
Region	Amsterdam metropolitan area
Established	1 January 2016
Government
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Han ter Heegde (VVD)
Area
• Total	75.22 km2 (29.04 sq mi)
• Land	41.59 km2 (16.06 sq mi)
• Water	33.63 km2 (12.98 sq mi)
Population (January 2021)
• Total	58,524
• Density	1,407/km2 (3,640/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	1398–1406, 1410–1414
Area code	0294, 035
Website	gooisemeren.nl

Gooise Meren (pronounced [ˈɣoːisə ˈmeːrə(n)]) is a municipality in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. It has about 58,000 inhabitants and covers an area of about 77 km² (30 sq mi).

Gooise Meren has existed since 2016. It is a merger of the three former municipalities of Bussum, Muiden (including Muiderberg) and Naarden. Eastern (Naarden area) and southern part (Bussum area) of the municipality lie within the Gooi region, western part (Muiden area) lies within the Vechtstreek region.

The very northern part of the Utrecht Hill Ridge, lake Naardermeer and artificial island Pampus are situated within its boundaries.

Gooise Meren borders in the northwest on lake IJmeer, in the northeast on lake Gooimeer. The Vecht river empties into the IJmeer at Muiden, and also the northern end of the former Hollandic Water Line ends in Muiden.

Politics

The municipal council consists of 31 members which, after the 2022 municipal elections, were divided as follows:^[5]

Goois Democratic Platform - 7 seats
VVD - 6 seats
D66 - 6 seats
Hart voor Bussum - 4 seats
GroenLinks - 3 seats
CDA - 2 seats
PvdA - 2 seats
Partij voor Leefomgeving En Klimaat - 1 seat

The municipal executive consists of a mayor (Han ter Heegde, VVD) and five aldermen (2 VVD, 1 CDA, 1 D66, 1 GroenLinks).

Notable people

Willem Cornelisz van Muyden (1573 in Muiden – 1634) ship's carpenter and mariner
Salomon van Ruysdael (ca.1602 in Naarden – 1670) Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
Jan van Neck (1634–1714) Dutch Golden Age painter
Moses Lemans (1785 in Naarden – 1832) Dutch-Jewish Hebraist and mathematician and a leader of the Haskalah movement in Holland
Pieter Merkus (1787 in Naarden – 1844) Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1841/1844
Willem Cornelis Bauer (1862 – 1904 in Bussum) Dutch architect and painter
Frederik van Eeden (1860 – 1932 in Bussum) Dutch writer and psychiatrist
Abraham Samson Onderwijzer (1862 in Muiden – 1934) Dutch rabbi
Frank Martin (1890 – 1974 in Naarden) Swiss composer
Willem Arondeus (1894 in Naarden – 1943) artist and author who joined the Dutch resistance
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart (1901 in Bussum – 1956) Dutch politician and diplomat, first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1951/1956
Freddy Wittop (1911 in Bussum – 2001) costume designer, dancer and college professor ^[6]
Wim van Norden (1917 in Bussum – 2015) Dutch journalist, co-founder of Het Parool
Paul Biegel (1925 in Bussum – 2006) prolific Dutch writer of children's literature
Willem Duys (1928 in Bussum – 2011) radio and TV presenter, tennis player and music producer, lived in Naarden
Virginie Korte-van Hemel (1929 in Bussum – 2014) Dutch politician and jurist
Job de Ruiter (1930 – 2015 in Naarden) Dutch politician, diplomat and jurist
Ronnie Tober (born 1945 in Bussum) Dutch singer ^[7]
Tessa de Loo (born 1946 in Bussum) pen name of the Dutch novelist and short story writer
Marjan Unger (1946 in Bussum – 2018) Dutch art historian, wrote the standard work on Dutch jewellery
André Knevel (born 1950 in Bussum) Canadian concert organist, arranger and accompanist
René Bernards (born 1953 in Bussum) Dutch cancer researcher and academic
Ernst Reijseger (born 1954 in Bussum) Dutch cellist and composer, with jazz and contemporary classical music
Youp van 't Hek (born 1954 in Naarden) Dutch comedian, author and singer-songwriter ^[8]
Arthur Arnold (born 1967 in Naarden) a Dutch orchestra conductor.
Thekla Reuten (born 1975 in Bussum) Dutch actress ^[9]
Josylvio (born 1992 in Naarden) Dutch hip hop rapper
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann (1923 in Naarden – 2017), Dutch American art historian

Sport

Tineke Lagerberg (born 1941 in Bussum) retired Dutch swimmer, team bronze medallist at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Huub Rothengatter (born 1954 in Bussum) former racing driver
Anneloes Nieuwenhuizen (born 1963 in Bussum) former Dutch field hockey defender, team gold medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Ruud Hesp (born 1965 in Bussum) Dutch former professional football goalkeeper with 504 club caps
twins Tim & Tom Coronel (born 1972 in Naarden) Dutch racing drivers
Wouter Jolie (born 1985 in Naarden) Dutch field hockey player, team silver medallist at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Lucas Steijn (born 1986 in Muiderberg) Dutch former basketball player
Marlous Pieëte (born 1989 in Naarden) Dutch female retired international footballer with 51 caps for the NL
Ferry Weertman (born 1992 in Naarden) Dutch long-distance freestyle swimmer, gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Robin van Kampen (born 1994) Dutch chess grandmaster, brought up in Bussum
Youri Mulder (born in 1969) retired Dutch Footballer
Joël Drommel (born 1996), football goalkeeper

References

^ "Gemeentelijke indeling op 1 januari 2016" [Municipal divisions on 1 January 2016]. cbs.nl (in Dutch). CBS. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
^ "Burgemeester Han ter Heegde" [Mayor Han ter Heegde] (in Dutch). Gemeente Gooise Meren. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
^ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
^ "Gooise Meren municipal election 2022". www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl (in Dutch). 16 March 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^ IMDb Database retrieved 05 March 2020
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