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Goes

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government_footnotes	{{cite web
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title	Samenstelling B&W
trans-title	Members of the board of mayor and aldermen
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publisher	Gemeente Goes
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archive-date	13 December 2013
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work	Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
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url-status	dead
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Goes () is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland. The city of Goes has approximately 29,000 residents.

History

Topography

Dutch Topographic map of Goes (town), Sept. 2014.

Districts

Centre Goes
West Goes
New West
East Goes
Noordhoek
Goese Meer
Goese Polder
South Goes
Overzuid
Ouverture
De Goese Poort (business area)
De Poel (I, II, III en IV, business area)
Klein Frankrijk (business area)
Marconi (business area)
Aria (developing)
Mannee
Goese Schans (developing)

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Goes was twinned with Panevėžys, Lithuania.

On 22 July 2021 the town council decided to end the twinning.

Transport

Goes has a railway station located on the Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway.

Notable people

Public thinking & service

Cornelis van Watervliet (1592–1636), Mayor of Goes and member of the Court of Audit of Zeeland, buried in De Maria Magdalenakerk
Cornelis Caesar (–1657), merchant and governor of Formosa
C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817–1890), chemist and meteorologist, invented Buys Ballot's law
Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte (1822–1902), politician
Jacob Adriaan de Wilde (1879–1956), politician and jurist
Pieter Jacobus Wemelsfelder (1907–1995), hydraulic engineer
Leendert Ginjaar (1928–2003), politician and chemist
Bas van Fraassen (born 1941), philosopher
Albert J. R. Heck (born 1964), scientist and academic
Katinka Simonse (born 1979) known as Tinkebell, artist

The arts

Willem Eversdijck (–1671), Golden Age painter
Pieter Peutemans (1641–1698), Golden Age painter
Pieter Adriaan Jacobus Moojen (1879- 1955), architect, painter and writer
Leo van Doeselaar (born 1954), classical organist and conductor
Boudewijn Vincent Bonebakker (born 1968) and Frank Harthoorn, guitarists of Gorefest
Frank Nitzinsky (Eye-D) (born 1974), music producer and DJ, one half of The Outside Agency
Noël Wessels (DJ Hidden) (born 1975), music producer and DJ, one-half of The Outside Agency
Jesse van de Ketterij (unknown birth year), music producer and DJ, one-half of Pep & Rash
Rachid El Uarichi (unknown birth year), music producer and DJ, one-half of Pep & Rash

Sports

Myrna Veenstra (born 1975), former field hockey player, bronze medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Martijn Dieleman (born 1979), former Dutch volleyball player, competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove (born 1991), tennis player
Consus, winner of the 2023 GeoGuessr World Cup

Gallery

File:Goes olden haavn.jpg|City harbor of Goes File:Beeld Bergweg.jpg|Beeld Bergweg File:Goes 08827.jpg|De veste (canal) in Goes File:Goese Golf Clubhuis.jpg|Goese Golf Clubhuis

References

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(2018-06-04). "Delegatie uit zusterstad Panevežys brengt bezoek aan Goes". PZC.
Town council meeting 22 july 2021, item 10 (in Dutch) [https://goes.raadsinformatie.nl/vergadering/789769/Debatraad%2022-07-2021] {{Webarchive. link. (2023-03-15 , online consulted 2022-03-28.)

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