Voorne aan Zee

Voorne aan Zee 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 189.82 km2 of which 67.99 km2 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.

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
 * Meindert van Buuren (born 1995), a Dutch racing driver