Langedijk

Langedijk (West Frisian Dutch: Langedìk) is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. Langedijk received city rights in 1415.

Langedijk and the former municipality of Heerhugowaard merged into the new municipality of Dijk en Waard on 1 January 2022.

Population centres
The former municipality of Langedijk contained the following small towns and villages: • Broek op Langedijk

• Koedijk (partly)

• Noord-Scharwoude

• Oudkarspel

• Sint Pancras

• Zuid-Scharwoude.

Topography
Map of the former municipality of Langedijk, 2015

Local government
The former municipal council of Langedijk consisted of 21 seats, which at the last elections in 2018 divided as follows: • Dorpsbelang Langedijk (4 seats)

• VVD (4 seats)

• Kleurrijk Langedijk (3 seats)

• CDA (2 seats)

• GroenLinks (2 seats)

• Senioren Langedijk (2 seats)

• PvdA (1 seat)

• Hart voor Langedijk/D66 (2 seats)

• ChristenUnie (1 seat) Elections were held in November 2021 for a council for the new merged municipality of Dijk en Waard, that included Langedijk, which commenced work in January 2022.

Notable people

 * Johannes Hertenberg (1668 in Oudkarspel – 1725) the 19th Dutch Governor of Ceylon from 1723 until his death
 * Theo Nieuwenhuis (1866 in Noord-Scharwoude – 1951) a Dutch watercolor painter, lithograph designer, woodcarver and ceramics and textile designer
 * Berend Tobia Boeyinga (1886 in Noord-Scharwoude – 1969) a Dutch architect, noted for his Calvinist church buildings
 * Laurens Bogtman (1900 in Oudkarspel – 1969) a Dutch baritone
 * Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937 in Sint Pancras – 2012), pen name, J. Bernlef, a Dutch writer, poet, novelist and translator

Sport

 * Jan Langedijk (1910 in Oudkarspel – 1981) a Dutch speed skater who competed at the 1936 and 1948 Winter Olympics
 * Gerard Kamper (born 1950 in Koedijk) a retired Dutch cyclist
 * Jan Blokhuijsen (born 1989 in Zuid-Scharwoude) Dutch long-track speed skater, silver medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics