Bussum

Bussum is a place inside the Gooi region, within the southeast of the Dutch province of Noord-Holland. Bussum was additionally a municipality till 2016. On January 1 of that year it merged into the new municipality of Gooise Meren, of which Bussum is the capital. Bussum became for a long term a trifling village on the Gooise heather, first cited in 1306.

It was a hamlet surrounded by means of heathland and forests and turned into inhabited with the aid of farmers, feeders and shepherds, later also spinsters and weavers. It is believed that the call is derived from Bos hem, which means that house in the forest. Located at the fortified fortress of Naarden, Bussum become ruled through Naarden from 1369. In 1470 about 250 human beings lived there. Bussum changed into consequently the smallest village within the Gooi. After 1700, the excavation of the high grounds round Naarden became an vital supply of income. Bussum owes its top differences to these sand excavations, that are meditated, amongst other matters, in the harbor of Bussum, the so-known as Mouwtje and the Bilderdijkplantsoen.