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Hoogkarspel | |
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The skyline of Hoogkarspel, with the characteristic Hoogkarspel Water Tower. | |
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Country | Netherlands |
Province | North Holland |
Municipality | Drechterland |
Population (2007) | 7.380 |
Hoogkarspel (West Frisian: Hougkarspel) (population estimate: 7380) is a village in the municipality Drechterland, located in the north west of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.
Hoogkarspel was a separate municipality until 1979, when it was merged into the new municipality of Bangert, which has been renamed to Drechterland in 1980.[1]
Transportation[]
There is a railway station, Hoogkarspel, with half hourly connections to Hoorn, Amsterdam and Enkhuizen.
Born in Hoogkarspel[]
- Klaas de Jong (1815-1886), farmer and politician
- Hermanus Samuel de Roode (1877-1827), offical
- Durk van der Ploeg (1930), writer and poet
- René Appel (1945), writer and linguist
- Vincent Mentzel (1945), photographer
- Thomas Koenis (1989), basketball player
- Lucienne Reichardt (1991), football player
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References[]
- ^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2006.
External links[]
- J. Kuyper, Gemeente Atlas van Nederland, 1865-1870, "Hoogkarspel". Map of the former municipality, around 1868.
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