Wijdemeren

Wijdemeren is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, on the western border of the Gooi region.

Wijdemeren contains many lakes, including Spiegelplas and Ankeveense Plassen in the north(east) and Loosdrechtse Plassen in the (south)west.

Wijdemeren was established as a merger of 's-Graveland, Loosdrecht, and Nederhorst den Berg on 1 January 2002. The former municipality of Loosdrecht belonged to the province of Utrecht.

Population centres
The municipality of Wijdemeren includes the following small towns and villages: • Ankeveen

• Boomhoek

• Breukeleveen

• 's-Graveland

• Kortenhoef

• Muyeveld

• Nederhorst den Berg

• Nieuw-Loosdrecht

• Oud-Loosdrecht.

Topography
Map of the municipality of Wijdemeren, 2013.

Notable people

 * Jan Jacob Spöhler (1811–1866) painter
 * Hendrik Jan Schimmel (1823–1906) poet and novelist
 * Barend Klaas Kuiper (1877–1961) history professor and author, wrote on Dutch Calvinist church history
 * Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985) Dutch American mathematician and economist, joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
 * Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor
 * Feike Sijbesma (born 1959) CEO of DSM
 * Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (born 1973) politician and diplomat

Sport

 * Nelleke Penninx (born 1971) retired rower, competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and silver medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics
 * Jip Vastenburg (born 1994) long-distance athlete, competeted in the 2016 Summer Olympics