# 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 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 (c. 1443 in Baflo – 1485) pre-Erasmian humanist, Hebrew scholar, educator, musician and builder of a church organ
* Wigbolt, Baron Ripperda (c. 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) Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew
* Hendrik Bulthuis (1865 in Warffum – 1945) 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 WWII
* Cornelis Simon Meijer (1904 in Pieterburen – 1974) Dutch mathematician and academic
* Sicco Mansholt (1908 in Ulrum – 1995) Dutch politician and diplomat
* Aldert van der Ziel (1910 in Zandeweer – 1991) 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) Dutch politician
* Gert Hekma (born 1951 in Bedum) Dutch anthropologist, sociologist and academic
* Klaas Knot (born 1967 in Bedum) 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) 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) Dutch singer-songwriter, sang mainly in Gronings dialect
* Freek de Jonge (born 1944 in Westernieland) Dutch cabaret performer and writer

### 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