Gooise Meren (pronounced[ˈɣoːi̯sə ˈmeːrə(n)]) is a municipality in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. It has about 56,000 inhabitants and covers an area of about 77km2 (30sqmi).
Gooise Meren has existed since 2016. It is a merger of the former municipalities of Bussum, Muiden, Muiderberg and Naarden. Eastern (Naarden area) and southern part (Bussum area) of the municipality lie within the Gooi region, western part (Muiden area) lies within the Vechtstreek region.
The very northern part of the Utrecht Hill Ridge, lake Naardermeer and artificial island Pampus are situated within its boundaries.
Gooise Meren borders in the northwest on lake IJmeer, in the northeast on lake Gooimeer. The Vecht river empties into the IJmeer at Muiden, and also the northern end of the former Hollandic Water Line ends in Muiden.
Politics
The municipal council consists of 31 seats, which are divided as follows:
VVD - 8 seats
CDA - 5 seats
D66 - 5 seats
PvdA - 4 seats
GroenLinks - 3 seats
50PLUS - 2 seats
Hart voor Bussum - 2 seats
Gooise Ouderen Partij - 2 seats
The municipal executive consists of a mayor (Han ter Heegde, VVD) and five aldermen (2 VVD, 1 CDA, 1 D66, 1 GroenLinks).
Notable people
Willem Cornelisz van Muyden (1573 in Muiden – 1634) a ship's carpenter and mariner
Salomon van Ruysdael (ca.1602 in Naarden – 1670) a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
Jan van Neck (1634–1714) a Dutch Golden Age painter
Moses Lemans (1785 in Naarden - 1832) a Dutch-Jewish Hebraist and mathematician and a leader of the Haskalah movement in Holland
Pieter Merkus (1787 in Naarden – 1844) Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1841/1844
Frederik van Eeden (1860 – 1932 in Bussum) a Dutch writer and psychiatrist
Abraham Samson Onderwijzer (1862 in Muiden - 1934) a Dutch rabbi
Frank Martin (1890 – 1974 in Naarden) a Swiss composer
Willem Arondeus (1894 in Naarden – 1943) an artist and author who joined the Dutch resistance
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart (1901 in Bussum – 1956) a Dutch politician and diplomat, first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1951/1956
Freddy Wittop (1911 in Bussum – 2001) a costume designer, dancer and college professor [5]
Wim van Norden (1917 in Bussum – 2015) a Dutch journalist, co-founder of Het Parool
Paul Biegel (1925 in Bussum – 2006) a prolific Dutch writer of children's literature
Willem Duys (1928 in Bussum – 2011) a radio and TV presenter, tennis player and music producer, lived in Naarden
Virginie Korte-van Hemel (1929 in Bussum – 2014) a Dutch politician and jurist
Job de Ruiter (1930 – 2015 in Naarden) a Dutch politician, diplomat and jurist
Ronnie Tober (born 1945 in Bussum) a Dutch singer [6]
Tessa de Loo (born 1946 in Bussum) pen name of the Dutch novelist and short story writer
Marjan Unger (1946 in Bussum – 2018) a Dutch art historian, wrote the standard work on Dutch jewellery
André Knevel (born 1950 in Bussum) a Canadian concert organist, arranger and accompanist
René Bernards (born 1953 in Bussum) a Dutch cancer researcher and academic
Ernst Reijseger (born 1954 in Bussum) a Dutch cellist and composer, with jazz and contemporary classical music
Youp van 't Hek (born 1954 in Naarden) a Dutch comedian, author and singer-songwriter [7]
Arthur Arnold (born 1967 in Naarden) a Dutch orchestra conductor.
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