Obdam
village in Koggenland, Netherlands
Obdam (Dutch pronunciation: [ɔbˈdɑm] ) is a village and former municipality 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 contains the following small towns and villages: Berkmeer, Hensbroek, Obdam and Wogmeer (partly).
Train services
Obden has a railway station. It has regular direct services to Hoorn and, by changing trains there, services to Amsterdam.
Chronology
1503 - The van Duvenvoorde family become the Lords 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 sea battle with the English while the captain of a Dutch vessel.
1979 - Founding of the new municipality, including the towns of Hensbroek and Wogmeer.
The public source identifies “Obdam” as village in Koggenland, Netherlands. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Obdam, village and Koggenland.
Why this record matters
A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Obdam”, the useful work is to connect “village in Koggenland, Netherlands” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q649748. Authority coordinates are 52.674, 4.904. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007, 1503, 1610 and 1620.
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This entry incorporates text from “Obdam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.