Het Hogeland
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 at 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
of the Christian Democratic Appeal is mayor of Het Hogeland.Transportation
The Sauwerd–Roodeschool railway connects the railway stations Warffum, Usquert, Uithuizen, Uithuizermeeden, and Roodeschool to the Groningen railway station and the rest of the Dutch railway network.Notable people
- Rodolphus Agricola a pre-Erasmian humanist, Hebrew scholar, educator, musician and builder of a church organ
- Wigbolt, Baron Ripperda city governor of Haarlem when the city was under siege in the Eighty Years' War
- Willem Surenhuis a Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew
- Hendrik Bulthuis a Dutch customs official, author and translator of more than thirty works into Esperanto
- Gezina van der Molen legal scholar and resistance fighter during WW11
- Cornelis Simon Meijer a Dutch mathematician and academic
- Sicco Mansholt a Dutch politician and diplomat
- Aldert van der Ziel a Dutch physicist who studied electronic noise processes
- Molly Geertsema politician and jurist, Mayor of Warffum 1953-1957
- Martin Zijlstra a Dutch politician
- Gert Hekma a Dutch anthropologist, sociologist and academic
- Klaas Knot a Dutch economist, President of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank
The Arts
- Hermanus Numan painter, draftsman, pastellist, etcher, engraver, watercolorist, art theorist and publisher
- Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman an experimental Dutch artist, typographer and printer
- Frits Peutz architect
- Seth Gaaikema cabaret artist, writer, and lyricist
- Ede Staal a Dutch singer-songwriter, sang mainly in Gronings dialect
- Freek de Jonge a Dutch cabaret performer and writer
Sport
- Arjen Robben professional footballer for FC Bayern Munich and the Netherlands national football team with 420 and 96 caps respectively
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion
