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 of which is water. It had a population of 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.

250px|thumb|Dutch Topographic map of Voorne aan Zee, January 2023

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

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File:Tinte, kapel foto2 2009-05-21 16.59.JPG|Tinte, chapel

File:Hellevoetsluis 006.jpg|Church in Hellevoetsluis

File:Rockanje, molen foto2 2009-05-10 12.35.JPG|Rockanje, windmill

File:Brielle, Sint Catharijnekerk positie2 foto1 2011-06-26 14.21.JPG|Brielle, church: de Sint Catharijne kerk

File:Brielle, het Wellerondom foto5 2011-06-26 14.04.JPG|Brielle, monumental houses at the Wellerondom

File:Tweede Slag, Rockanje. Oorlogsmonument in de duinen.jpg|Tweede Slag, Rockanje. Monument honouring executed resistance members during WWII.

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References

  • Official website

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