Uitgeest

Uitgeest is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

Population centres
The municipality of Uitgeest consists of the following towns, villages and districts: • Assum

• Busch en Dam

• Groot Dorregeest

• Uitgeest

• Kleis

• Waldijk

Topography
Map of the municipality of Uitgeest, June 2015

Local government
The municipal council of Uitgeest consists of 15 seats, which at the 2022 municipal elections divided as follows:

• Progressief Uitgeest - 4 seats

• CDA - 2 seats

• Uitgeest Lokaal (UL) -2 seats

• PvdA - 2 seats

• VVD - 2 seats

• D66 - 2 seats

• Uitgeester vrije partij - 1 seat

Tourist information
No less than five windmills can be seen in the polder landscape surrounding the village. Uitgeest was the birthplace (in 1550) of Cornelis Corneliszoon, inventor of the wind-powered sawmill. An industrial heritage park, centered on sawmill De Hoop, is under construction.

The village has a Reformed church dating back to the early 14th Century and lakeside marina. The 670m outdoor kart-racing track made room for new housing, so this tourist attraction was lost. Fort along Den Ham (between Uitgeest and Krommenie) was one of the 42 forts of the Stelling van Amsterdam, a 19th-century ring of fortifications around Amsterdam which has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The fort is now a museum open to the public on Sundays.

Transportation

 * Railway station: Uitgeest

Uitgeest is served by 4 trains per hour (Monday – Saturday), journey time to Amsterdam is around 20 minutes. The Stoptrein via Beverwijk and Haarlem is slower, while the journey via Zaandam passes through beautiful countryside.

Uitgeest is very close to the highways N8/A8 and A9. This will take you to Amsterdam in around 15 minutes. In 2010 two lanes ('spitsstroken') were added to the A9, improving the traffic to and from the Amsterdam region.
 * Highway

Notable residents

 * Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest (ca.1550–ca.1600) a Dutch windmill owner who invented the wind-powered sawmill
 * Willem Blaeu (1571–1638) a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher
 * Hessel Gerritsz (ca.1581–1632) a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher
 * Jaap Knol (1896–1975) a Dutch javelin thrower, competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics
 * Peter Smit (born 1952) children's writer
 * Niels Kokmeijer (born 1977) a former Dutch footballer with almost 100 club caps, later manager of the Netherlands national beach soccer team
 * Thijs Sluijter (born 1980) a retired Dutch footballer with over 300 club caps