Heerde

Heerde is a municipality and a town in the province of Gelderland, in the eastern Netherlands. Compared to the rest of the Netherlands, Heerde is fairly religious, as are many of the towns and cities in the Veluwe region.

Population centres
• Heerde

• Hoorn

• Veessen

• Vorchten

• Wapenveld

Politics
The Heerde municipal council consists of 17 seats, which since the 2022 municipal elections have been divided as follows:


 * CDA - 4 seats
 * Municipal Interest Farmers Party, Heerde - 4 seats
 * CU-SGP - 3 seats
 * VVD - 2 seats
 * D66-GL - 2 seats
 * PvdA - 2 seats

Sport
The municipality has five amateur soccer clubs: vv Heerde, SEH, WZC Wapenveld, vv Wapenveld and Vevo.

Topography


Map of the municipality of Heerde, June 2015.

Notable residents

 * Daniël de Clercq (1854 in Heerde – 1931) a Dutch socialist and activist
 * Hendrik Jan van Duren (1937 in Heerde – 2008) a Dutch politician.
 * Marijke Abels (born 1948 in Deventer) a Dutch visual artist, one of her sculptures is at the roundabout of the A50 junction in Heerde

Sport

 * Jaap Zielhuis (born 1966 in Heerde) a Dutch sailor, competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Jacco Eltingh (born 1970 in Heerde) a former professional tennis player
 * Gerard van Velde (born 1971 in Wapenveld) a Dutch retired speed skating sprinter, gold medallist in the 2002 Winter Olympics