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Wijdemeren
Loosdrechtse Plassen
Loosdrechtse Plassen
Flag of Wijdemeren
Flag
Coat of arms of Wijdemeren
Coat of arms
Highlighted position of Wijdemeren in a municipal map of North Holland
Location in North Holland
Country Netherlands
Province North Holland
Established 1 January 2002
Government
 • Body Municipal council
Area
 • Total 76.36 km2 (29.48 sq mi)
 • Land 47.86 km2 (18.48 sq mi)
 • Water 28.50 km2 (11.00 sq mi)
Elevation
1 m (3 ft)
Population
 (May 2014)
 • Total 23,223
 • Density 485/km2 (1,260/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
1230–1244, 1394, 3625
Area code 0294, 035

Wijdemeren (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌʋɛidəˈmeːrə(n)]) is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, on the western border of the Gooi region.

Wijdemeren contains many lakes, including Spiegelplas and Ankeveense Plassen in the north(east) and Loosdrechtse Plassen in the (south)west.

Wijdemeren was established as a merger of 's-Graveland, Loosdrecht, and Nederhorst den Berg on 1 January 2002. The former municipality of Loosdrecht belonged to the province of Utrecht.

Population centres

The municipality of Wijdemeren includes the following small towns and villages:

  • Ankeveen
  • Boomhoek
  • Breukeleveen
  • 's-Graveland
  • Kortenhoef
  • Muyeveld
  • Nederhorst den Berg
  • Nieuw-Loosdrecht
  • Oud-Loosdrecht.

Topography

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Map of the municipality of Wijdemeren, 2013.

Notable people

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Tjalling Koopmans, 1967
  • Jan Jacob Spöhler (1811–1866) painter
  • Hendrik Jan Schimmel (1823–1906) poet and novelist
  • Barend Klaas Kuiper (1877–1961) history professor and author, wrote on Dutch Calvinist church history
  • Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985) Dutch American mathematician and economist, joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor
  • Feike Sijbesma (born 1959) CEO of DSM
  • Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (born 1973) politician and diplomat

Sport

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