Oostzaan

Oostzaan
—  Municipality  —
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Coordinates: 52°27′N 4°52′E / 52.45°N 4.87°E / 52.45; 4.87Coordinates: 52°27′N 4°52′E / 52.45°N 4.87°E / 52.45; 4.87
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Holland
Area(2006)
- Total	16.13 km2 (6.2 sq mi)
- Land	11.49 km2 (4.4 sq mi)
- Water	4.64 km2 (1.8 sq mi)
Population (1 January, 2007)
- Total	9,243
- Density	804/km2 (2,082.4/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Website	www.oostzaan.nl

Oostzaan ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a town in the Zaanstreek, Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The town has a population of 9.104 inhabitats in december 2010. Oostzaan has got 11.49 km² land and 4.64 km² water.

Oostzaan—together with Westzaan and Assendelft—are part of the Zaanstreek: the region around the River Zaan). This means that they are the three oldest towns around the Zaan. Oostzaan also plays a role in the VOC and WIC shipping and shipbuilding. Oostzaan had his own pirate called Claes Compaen. He sailed away from the Netherlands as a legal pirate captain, in the possession of pirate letters, but soon he began to ship their own account to conquer the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the African-Atlantic coast into the Caribbean to. The booty he was liquidated on the coast of Ireland, later in Sale and the Barbary Coast. There are a pair of streets called "Claes Compaen" in Oostzaan too.

The village has a reformed Oostzaan cruciform (1760), Great Church, which includes two ship models that recall the days when Oostzaan community was a key shipping. In the eastern stands the windmill of Oostzaan, Zijderveld De Windjager (The Wind Hunter).

Hamlets

Oostzaan consists of several hamlets,

• Achterdichting (Get Behind The Seal),
• De Heul,
• Kerkbuurt (churchneighborhood),
• Noordeinde (northend),
• Zuideinde (Southend).

Kerkbuurt and the northern part of Zuideinde are the center of Oostzaan.

Local government

The municipal council of Oostzaan consists of 13 seats, which are divided as follows:

• Gemeente Belangen - 3 seats
• GroenLinks - 3 seats
• VVD - 3 seats
• CDA - 1 seat
• D66 - 1 seat
• Partij Luijendijk - 1 seat
• PvdA - 1 seat

References

• Statistics are taken from the SDU Staatscourant

External links

• A map of Oostzaan