Editing Wijdemeren

{{Infobox settlement
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<!-- Name and transliteration -->
| name                    = Wijdemeren
| settlement_type         = [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|Municipality]]
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| image_skyline           = Flying over Netherlands (Unsplash).jpg
| image_alt               = 
| image_caption           = Loosdrechtse Plassen
| image_flag              = Wijdemeren vlag.svg
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| map_alt                 = Highlighted position of Wijdemeren in a municipal map of North Holland
| map_caption             = Location in North Holland
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| coordinates_footnotes   = 
| subdivision_type        = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name        = [[Netherlands]]
| subdivision_type1       = [[Provinces of the Netherlands|Province]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[North Holland]]
| established_title       = Established
| established_date        = 1 January 2002<ref>{{cite web 
 |url = http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/methoden/classificaties/overzicht/gemeentelijke-indeling/2002/default.htm
 |title = Gemeentelijke indeling op 1 januari 2002
 |trans-title = Municipal divisions on 1 January 2002
 |language = nl
 |website = cbs.nl
 |publisher = [[Statistics Netherlands|CBS]]
 |access-date = 24 March 2014}}</ref>
| government_footnotes    = <ref name="mayor_now">{{cite web 
 |url = https://www.wijdemeren.nl/college
 |title = College van burgemeester en wethouders
 |language = nl
 |publisher = Gemeente Wijdemeren
 |access-date = 23 June 2024}}</ref>
| governing_body          = [[Municipal council (Netherlands)|Municipal council]]
| leader_party            = [[People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|VVD]]
| leader_title            = [[Burgemeester|Mayor]]
| leader_name             = [[M.L. Verheijen]]
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| area_land_km2           = {{Dutch municipality land area|Wijdemeren}}
| area_water_km2          = {{Dutch municipality water area|Wijdemeren}}
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 |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
 |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis
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| utc_offset_DST          = +2
| postal_code_type        = [[Postal codes in the Netherlands|Postcode]]
| postal_code             = 1230–1244, 1394, 3625
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in the Netherlands|Area code]]
| area_code               = 0294, 035
| website                 = {{URL|1=http://www.wijdemeren.nl}}
| footnotes               =
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'''Wijdemeren''' ({{IPA|nl|ˌʋɛidəˈmeːrə(n)|-|Nl-Wijdemeren.ogg}}) 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 (province)|Utrecht]].

==Population centres ==
The municipality of Wijdemeren includes the following small towns and villages:
{{columns-list|colwidth=12em|
* [[Ankeveen]]
* Boomhoek
* [[Breukeleveen]]
* [['s-Graveland]]
* [[Kortenhoef]]
* [[Muyeveld]]
* [[Nederhorst den Berg]]
* [[Nieuw-Loosdrecht]]
* [[Oud-Loosdrecht]].
}}
===Topography===
[[File:2013-Wijdemeren.jpg|420px|]]<br/>''Map of the municipality of Wijdemeren, 2013.''

== Local government ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Parties
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" |Seats<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 March 2014|title=Wijdemeren municipal election 2014 |url=https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/GR20140319/662376 |access-date=23 June 2024 |website=www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl|language=nl}}</ref><br/>2014-18
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" |Seats<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 March 2018|title=Wijdemeren municipal election 2018 |url=https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/GR20180321/671701 |access-date=23 June 2024 |website=www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl|language=nl}}</ref><br/>2018-22
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" |Seats<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 March 2022|title=Wijdemeren municipal election 2022 |url=https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/GR20220316/731087 |access-date=23 June 2024 |website=www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl|language=nl}}</ref><br/>2022-26
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |De Lokale Partij
| -
| 4
| 8
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]]
| 7
| 4
| 3
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |Dorpsbelangen
| 4
| 4
| 2
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|VVD]]
| 3
| 3
| 2
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Democrats 66|D66]]
| 3
| 2
| 1
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Labour Party (Netherlands)|PvdA]]-[[GreenLeft|GL]]
| 2
| 2
| 2
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Christian Union (Netherlands)|CU]]
| -
| -
| 1
|-
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 19
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 19
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 19
|- 
|-
|}

== Notable people ==
[[File:TjallingKoopmans1967.jpg|140px|thumb|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 (company)|DSM]]
* [[Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert]] (born 1973) politician and diplomat
=== Sport ===
* [[Nelleke Penninx]] (born 1971) retired rower, competed at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] and silver medallist at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Jip Vastenburg]] (born 1994) long-distance athlete, competeted in the [[2016 Summer Olympics]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode=packed>
File:Kortenhoefsedijk 155.png|Kortenhoefs dijk, 
File:Loenen Mijndense Sluis 2.JPG|Loenen Mijndense Sluis
File:Nederhorst Den Berg RK kerk - panoramio.jpg|Nederhorst Den Berg RK kerk
File:Mijndense sluis.JPG|Mijndense sluis
File:Betonnen werken Hinderdam - Kijkuit - Unknown - 20533296 - RCE.jpg|Betonnen werken Hinderdam - Kijkuit
</gallery>

== Notes==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
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* {{Official website|http://www.wijdemeren.nl}}

{{Geographic location
 | Centre    = Wijdemeren
 | North     = [[Amsterdam]]
 | East      = [[Hilversum]]
 | Southeast = [[De Bilt]] ([[Utrecht (province)|UT]])
 | Southwest = [[Stichtse Vecht]] ([[Utrecht (province)|UT]])
}}
{{Dutch municipality Wijdemeren}}
{{North Holland Province}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Wijdemeren| ]]
[[Category:Municipalities of North Holland]]
[[Category:Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 2002]]


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