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

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

Geography

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

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

Transport

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

Public thinking & public service

• 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

• 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

• 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