Obdam

Obdam
Obdam
	Former town hall
	Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 52°40′28″N 4°54′14″E
Country	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Constituent country	Netherlands
Province	North Holland
Municipality	Koggenland
Area
• Total	20.95 km2 (8.09 sq mi)
• Land	20.64 km2 (7.97 sq mi)
• Water	0.31 km2 (0.12 sq mi)
Population (2005)
• Total	6,800
• Density	329/km2 (850/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.obdam.nl

Obdam (pronunciation ) is a former municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. The municipality ceased to exist on 1 January 2007 when it merged with Wester-Koggenland to form the new municipality of Koggenland.

Population centres

The area of the former municipality of Obdam consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Berkmeer, Hensbroek, Obdam, Wogmeer (partly).

Train services

These services currently (2014), depart for Hoorn, from platform 1, at xx.00 and xx.30 minutes past the hour. Travel time to Amsterdam is just 55 minutes.

Chronology

1503 - The van Duvenvoorde family becomes the Lordship of the town.
1610 - Birth of Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam; Son of Jacob van Duvenvoorde van Wassenaer
1620 - Jacob van Duvenvoorde starts using the van Wassenaer family name and becomes Jacob van Duvenvoorde van Wassenaer
1665 - Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord Of Obdam dies during a seabattle with the English while being the captain of a Dutch vessel.
1979 - Founding of the new municipality, including the towns of Hensbroek and Wogmeer.
2007 - The Obdam municipal merges into municipal Koggenland

Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam by Abraham Evertsz. van Westerveld

Local government

Before the merger, the last municipal council of Obdam consisted of 13 seats, which were divided as follows:

CDA - 5 seats
Gemeente Partij Obdam - 4 seats
PvdA - 2 seats
VVD - 2 seats

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References

Statistics are taken from the SDU Staatscourant

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