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Oostzaan () is a municipality and a town in the
Zaanstreek The Zaan () is a small river in the province of North Holland in the northwestern Netherlands and the name of a district through which it runs. The river was originally a side arm of the IJ bay and travels 13.5 kilometers (8½ miles) through the m ...
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, in the province of
North Holland North Holland ( nl, Noord-Holland, ) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In November 2019, it had a ...
. The municipality had a population of in . Oostzaan has a total area of of which is water. Oostzaan—together with
Westzaan Westzaan is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Zaanstad, and lies about 13 km northeast of Haarlem. It is located west of Zaandam, Koog aan de Zaan and Zaandijk, southwest of Wormer, southea ...
and
Assendelft Assendelft () is a town in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Zaanstad. Assendelft was a separate municipality until 1974, when the municipality of Zaanstad was formed. However, Assendelft didn't wan ...
—are considered the "mother towns" of the Zaanstreek (the region around the River Zaan), of which they are the three oldest towns. Oostzaan also played a role in the
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shipping and shipbuilding. In the 17th century Oostzaan had its own pirate, named Claes Compaen. Originally sailing from the
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as a legal pirate captain, in the possession of pirate letters, he soon began to raid ships for his private account, from the
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, to the
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and the African-Atlantic coast into even the
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. He liquidated the booty on the coast of
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, later in
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and the Barbary Coast. A street in Oostzaan is named for Claes Compaen. The town has a Reformed church with a cruciform groundplan, the Great Church (1760), which contains two ship models that recall the days when Oostzaan was an important sea-faring community. In the Oostzijderveld area of Oostzaan stands a windmill, De Windjager (The Wind Hunter).


Hamlets

Oostzaan consists of several hamlets, * Achterdichting (Get Behind The Seal), * De Heul, * Kerkbuurt (church neighborhood), * Noordeinde (North end), * Zuideinde (South end). 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:


Economy

The poultry company
Meyn Food Processing Technology Meyn Food Processing Technology (or simply Meyn) is a supplier of poultry processing services. The principal activity of Meyn is the manufacturing of poultry processing equipment for poultry processing plants. They operate in over ninety countr ...
is headquartered in Oostzaan.


Notable people

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Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (before 1470 – 1533) was a Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter. He was one of the first important artists working in Amsterdam, at a time when it was a flourishing and beautiful provincial ...
(before 1470 – 1533) a Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and a painter *
Claes Gerritszoon Compaen Claes Gerritszoon Compaen (1587, Oostzaan, North Holland - 25 February 1660, Oostzaan), also called Claas Compaan or Klaas Kompaan, was a 17th-century Dutch corsair and merchant. Dissatisfied as a privateer for the Dutch Republic, he turned to p ...
(1587 in Oostzaan - 1660 in Oostzaan) a Dutch corsair, merchant, a
privateer A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...
for the Dutch Republic and pirate * Albert Heijn (1865 in Oostzaan – 1945) a Dutch entrepreneur who founded Albert Heijn, a Dutch supermarket chain * Grietje de Jongh (1924 in Oostzaan – 2002) a Dutch sprinter, competed at the 1948 and
1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...
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Robert Tijdeman Robert Tijdeman (born 30 July 1943 in Oostzaan, North Holland) is a Dutch mathematician. Specializing in number theory, he is best known for his Tijdeman's theorem. He is a professor of mathematics at the Leiden University since 1975, and was c ...
(born 1943 in Oostzaan) a Dutch mathematician, specializing in number theory, wrote
Tijdeman's theorem In number theory, Tijdeman's theorem states that there are at most a finite number of consecutive powers. Stated another way, the set of solutions in integers ''x'', ''y'', ''n'', ''m'' of the exponential diophantine equation :y^m = x^n + 1, for ...
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Trijnie Rep Trijntje "Trijnie" Rep (later Roozendaal; born 4 December 1950) is a Dutch former speed skater from who competed for the Netherlands at the 1972 Winter Olympics in the 500 and 1000 m and finished in 20th and 24th place, respectively. The followin ...
(born 1950 in Oostzaan) a Dutch former speed skater, who competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics * Charles Zwolsman Sr. (1955 in Oostzaan – 2011) a Dutch drug dealer and professional racecar driver


Gallery

File:Kerkbuurt 27, Oostzaan.JPG, Kerkbuurt 27, Oostzaan File:Mill Twiske at Oostzaan in the morningsun at 21 November 2014 - panoramio.jpg, Mill Twiske at Oostzaan - panoramio File:Zaanse schans straote.jpg, Zaanse schans straote File:Church in the center of Oostzaan - panoramio.jpg, Church in the center of Oostzaan - panoramio


References


External links

* * {{Authority control Municipalities of North Holland Populated places in North Holland