Voorne aan Zee
Template:Short description Template:Infobox settlement Voorne aan Zee (Template:IPA) is a municipality on the island of Voorne-Putten in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of Template:Convert of which Template:Convert is water. It had a population of 73,873 in 2022.
The municipality of Voorne aan Zee was formed on 1 January 2023, through the merger of the former municipalities of Brielle, Hellevoetsluis and Westvoorne, which itself was formed on 1 January 1980, through the merger of the former municipalities Oostvoorne and Rockanje.<ref>Template:Repertorium Nederlandse Gemeenten</ref>
It consists of the towns Brielle and Hellevoetsluis, the villages Nieuwenhoorn, Nieuw-Helvoet, Oostvoorne, Oudenhoorn, Rockanje, Tinte, Vierpolders and Zwartewaal, the water board neighbourhood Oude en Nieuwe Struiten, and the hamlet Helhoek.
Notable people
- Jacob van Maerlant (ca.1230–40 – ca.1288–1300), a Flemish poet of the 13th century, an important Middle Dutch author of the Middle Ages
- Maarten Tromp (1598 in Brielle – 1653), a Dutch army general and admiral in the Dutch navy
- Witte de With (1599 in Hoogendijk – 1658), a Dutch naval officer during the Eighty Years War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
- Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen (1822–1878), a Dutch mathematician, physicist and professor
- Jan Greshoff (1888 in Nieuw-Helvoet – 1971), a Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic
- Belinda Meuldijk (born 1955), a Dutch actress, writer, and activist <ref>IMDb Database retrieved 31 May 2019</ref>
- Meindert van Buuren (born 1995), a Dutch racing driver
Gallery
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Tinte, chapel -
Church in Hellevoetsluis -
Rockanje, windmill -
Brielle, church: de Sint Catharijne kerk -
Brielle, monumental houses at the Wellerondom -
Tweede Slag, Rockanje. Monument honouring executed resistance members during WWII.
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