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23-419: Wymbritseradeel was formed from the division of the medieval district of Waghenbrugghe. The grietenij of Wymbritseradeel was created in 1500 as Frisian cities became independent and several grietenij were split on the south side of the area. The boundaries of Wymbritseradeel remained unchanged until 1984. From 1625 until the introduction of the municipal law in 1851, the grietman of Wymbritseradeel lived in

46-525: A judge and an administrator. Grietenij typically consisted of around 10 to 25 church parishes. The smallest territorial unit in both ecclesiastical and secular jurisdiction during that time was the parish, also known as " ga " in Old Frisian. The parish was an integral part of the synodal district and the secular grietenij , which were in turn part of the archdiakonate and the pagus (county), respectively. In Friesland, many grietenijen were named with

69-515: A wide variety of public services , which include land-use planning , public housing , management and maintenance of local roads, waste management and social security . After the Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010 three special municipalities (officially public bodies ) were formed. These municipalities function the same as regular municipalities and are grouped together as

92-408: Is both the least populated, with 972 people, and the least densely populated municipality at 23/km (60/sq mi). Amsterdam has the highest population with 931,298 residents as of January 2024, whereas The Hague is the most densely populated with a density of 6,868/km (17,790/sq mi). As a second level administrative division municipalities are the third tier of public administration in

115-464: Is responsible for public order and is the first in command during emergencies, all other tasks are distributed freely between mayor and aldermen. The exact portfolio for each person differs between each municipality. Official municipal boundaries were first drawn up in 1832 in the Netherlands after a cadastre was formed. The Municipalities Act of 1851, written by prime minister Thorbecke , led to

138-470: Is the highest administrative body in the municipality and controls public policy. The executive power lies with the executive board , which consists of a mayor , titled lieutenant governor in the special municipalities, and multiple aldermen, titled island deputies in the special municipalities. The mayor is appointed for six years at a time by the crown and the alderman are elected by the municipal council, typically after each municipal election. The mayor

161-478: The Caribbean Netherlands and are not part of a province. The municipalities are governed by both a board of mayor and aldermen and a municipal council. The municipal council , which is titled island council in the special municipalities, is elected every four years. The number of members in the council ranges from nine members for the smallest municipalities to forty-five members for the largest. It

184-473: The Netherlands after the central government and the provinces . The Netherlands is a decentralized unitary state , which means that the central government is supreme and delegates certain tasks to lower levels of government by law. The different levels do, however, make work agreements, which give municipalities a certain degree of independence in their policy decisions. Municipalities are responsible for

207-550: The Netherlands . After the Saxon occupation, from about 1498 until 1851, there were a total of 30 grietenijen in Friesland and 11 cities. This system replaced the Frisian nobility system of the Frisian " hoofdelingen , stinsen en staten "(Frisian noblility, stone strongholds and surrounding estates). A grietenij was an administrative district led by a grietman , who acted as both

230-526: The stins of Epemastate in IJsbrechtum ( West Frisian : Ysbrechtum ). The modern municipality of Wymbritseradeel was formed as part of the municipal reorganization of Friesland in January 1984. The previous grietenij was merged with the grietenij of IJlst, parts of Doniawerstal , and the villages Greonterp , Koufurderrige , Smallebrugge , and Wonseradeel . The town of IJlst ( West Frisian : Drylts )

253-478: The disappearance of small municipalities. Throughout the years, less populous municipalities have been merged . They were either added to the larger neighbouring cities or multiple smaller municipalities merged into a larger new municipality with a new name. The number of municipalities reduced from 1,209 in 1850 to 537 in 2000; since 2024 there have been 342 municipalities. During this time, multiple mergers occurred simultaneously in large parts of individual provinces;

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276-672: The districts are called Dutch : stadsdelen , as well as Rotterdam , where the districts are called Dutch : deelgemeenten , consist of such formal subdivisions. The Hague , Almere , Breda , Eindhoven , Enschede , Groningen , Nijmegen , Tilburg and Utrecht have instituted Dutch : stadsdelen as well, although they do not have the same legal submunicipal status. For administrative use by municipalities and data collection by Statistics Netherlands all municipalities are subdivided into districts ( Dutch : wijken ), which in turn are subdivided into neighbourhoods ( Dutch : buurten ). These subdivisions have, in contrast to

299-415: The fertile clay areas were owned by urban landowners and the hoofdelingen . In these areas, only a low percentage of farmers were actual owners-users, with the majority of farmers being tenant farmers. In contrast, the number of common farmers who owned and cultivated their own land increased as the land became poorer and further into the peat bog (e.g. southwest Friesland). For example, in 1511, 15% of

322-507: The following hamlets: [REDACTED] Media related to Wymbritseradiel at Wikimedia Commons This Friesland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Grietenij A grietenij was a municipal district, a forerunner to the gemeente or municipality in Frisia , particularly in Friesland , and also in the city Groningen which are now a part of

345-510: The land in Leeuwarderadeel (in the clay area) was both owned and used by the same person, while in AEngwirden (in the peat area) the number was 63% The political differences are even starker when only vote-bearing properties are considered. in 1640, 5% of the vote bearing properties in Leeuwarderadeel were both used and owned by the same person, while in AEngwirden (in the peat area) the number

368-405: The mid 19th century. Municipalities themselves are informally subdivided into districts and neighbourhoods for administrative and statistical purposes. These municipalities come in a wide range of sizes, Westervoort is the smallest with a land area of 7.01 km (2.71 sq mi) and Súdwest-Fryslân the largest with a land area of 522.7 km (201.8 sq mi). Schiermonnikoog

391-466: The municipal boundaries were basically redrawn in these regions. In the 19th and large parts of the 20th century, municipal mergers were forced by the central government. This policy changed in the end of the 20th century; local support for the merger is now a large part of the decision-making process. The larger, merged municipalities are intended to handle an increasing workload because more public services are delegated from higher levels of government to

414-439: The municipalities. Another reason for municipal mergers is the assumption that larger municipalities are more efficient in performing their tasks than smaller ones. Municipalities have the right to decentralise themselves and form submunicipalities as an additional level of government. This right and the submunicipalities will cease to exist in the near future to reduce the number of levels of government. Only Amsterdam , where

437-528: The names of the thirty grietenijen from the 18th century. Municipalities of the Netherlands Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities ( Dutch : gemeenten ) and three special municipalities ( Dutch : bijzondere gemeenten ) in the Netherlands . The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean . Municipalities are

460-442: The second-level administrative division, or public bodies ( Dutch : openbare lichamen ), in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces . Their duties are delegated to them by the central government and they are ruled by a municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipal mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created in

483-430: The suffix "deel," which meant "part," such as Franekeradeel. Land Ownership Ownership of land in the grietenij was typically held by Frisian nobility (Friese adel, hoofdelingen ), churches, or monasteries, and it was often leased out to tenant farmers. However, the proportion of land owned by different groups (nobility vs. common farmers) varied across different regions. According to tax records, around 35-40% of

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506-480: Was 38% These common, poorer, freehold farmers were known as husmannen (huisman, house-owning men), and their social and economic status varied greatly. In the Municipality Law of 1851, the term grietenij was changed to gemeente (municipality), and the term grietman was changed to burgemeester (mayor). This resulted in consistent terms being used throughout the Netherlands. The list contains

529-630: Was the administrative seat. In 2011, the municipality merged with the neighboring municipalities of Bolsward , Nijefurd , Sneek and Wûnseradiel to form Southwest Friesland . Since 1986, the official name of the municipality was the Frisian-language Wymbritseradiel . However, the Dutch name Wymbritseradeel is sometimes used as a distinction for the old municipality prior to 1984. The former municipality had 28 official districts ( Dutch : kernen ): The municipality also contained

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