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{{Infobox settlement
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<!-- Name and transliteration -->
| name                     = Goes
| settlement_type          = [[List of cities in the Netherlands by province|City]] and [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]]
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| image_skyline            = City harbor of Goes, the Netherlands.jpg
| image_alt                = 
| image_caption            = Harbour of Goes
| image_flag               = Flag of Goes.svg
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| flag_alt                 = 
| image_shield             = Coat of arms of Goes.svg
| shield_size              = 100x80px
| shield_alt               = <!-- Maps, coordinates -->
| image_map                = Map - NL - Municipality code 0664 (2009).svg
| map_alt                  = Highlighted position of Goes in a municipal map of Zeeland
| map_caption              = Location in Zeeland
| pushpin_map              = Netherlands Zeeland#Netherlands#Europe
| pushpin_map_caption      = Location within the province of Zeeland##Location within the Netherlands##Location within Europe
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| coordinates              = {{coord|51|30|N|3|53|E|region:NL|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes    = 
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = [[Netherlands]]
| subdivision_type1        = [[Provinces of the Netherlands|Province]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[Zeeland]]
| government_footnotes     = <ref name="mayor_now">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.goes.nl/bestuur-organisatie/samenstelling-bw_41469/
 |title=Samenstelling B&W
 |trans-title=Members of the board of mayor and aldermen
 |language=nl
 |publisher=Gemeente Goes
 |access-date=10 December 2013
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213091642/http://www.goes.nl/bestuur-organisatie/samenstelling-bw_41469/
 |archive-date=13 December 2013
}}</ref>
| governing_body           = [[Municipal council (Netherlands)|Municipal council]]
| leader_party             = [[Reformed Political Party|SGP]]
| leader_title             = [[Burgemeester|Mayor]]
| leader_name              = [[Cees van den Bos]]
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| area_land_km2            = {{Dutch municipality land area|Goes}}
| area_water_km2           = {{Dutch municipality water area|Goes}}
| elevation_footnotes      = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool
 |title=Postcodetool for 4461GE
 |language=nl
 |work=Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
 |publisher=Het Waterschapshuis
 |access-date=8 December 2013
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053543/http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool
 |archive-date=21 September 2013
}}</ref>
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| population_footnotes     = <ref>{{Dutch municipality population|dataref}}</ref>
| population_total         = {{Dutch municipality population|Goes}}
| population_as_of         = {{MONTHNAME|{{Dutch municipality population|popbasemonth}}}} {{Dutch municipality population|popbaseyear}}
| population_density_km2   = {{Dutch municipality population density|Goes}} <!-- For automatic calculation: auto-->
| population_demonym       = Goesenaar
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| utc_offset1              = +1
| timezone1_DST            = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset1_DST          = +2
| postal_code_type         = [[Postal codes in the Netherlands|Postcode]]
| postal_code              = 4460–4483
| area_code_type           = [[Telephone numbers in the Netherlands|Area code]]
| area_code                = 0113
| website                  = {{URL|1=http://goes.nl}}
| footnotes                = 
}}

'''Goes''' ({{IPA|nl|ɣus|-|241 Goes.ogg}}) is a [[List of cities in the Netherlands by province|city]] and [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] in the southwestern [[Netherlands]] on [[Zuid-Beveland]], in the [[Provinces of the Netherlands|province]] of [[Zeeland]]. The city of Goes has approximately 29,000 residents.

{{stack|
[[File:Goes, Grote of Maria Magdelenakerk foto7 2009-09-25 16.11.JPG|thumb|''De Maria Magdalenakerk'']]
[[File:Ravelijn.jpg|thumb|Late Medieval Goes with ravelin]]
[[File:TV-Tower Goes by Night.jpg|thumb|TV tower]]
}}
==History==
{{Unreferenced section|date=March 2023}}
Goes was founded in the 10th century on the edge of a creek: {{Lang|nl|de Korte Gos}} (the Short Gos). The village grew fast, and in the early 12th century it had a market square and a church devoted to [[Mary Magdalene]]. By 1300, it had a brick castle, now known as [[Oostende Castle]].

In 1405, Goes received [[city rights]] from [[William II, Duke of Bavaria]], by his right as [[count of Holland]], and in 1417, it was allowed to build town walls. The prosperity of the city was based upon the cloth industry and the production of salt. In the 16th century, Goes declined. Its connection to the sea silted up and in 1554 a large fire destroyed part of the city.

In the autumn of 1572, during the course of the [[Eighty Years' War]], Goes, in the [[Spanish Netherlands]], was besieged by Dutch forces with the support of English troops. The [[Relief of Goes|siege was relieved]] in October 1572 by Spanish [[tercios]], who waded across the [[Scheldt]] to attack the besieging forces. In 1577, the Spanish soldiers who occupied Goes were driven out by Prince [[Maurice of Nassau]]. The prince built a defence wall around Goes, which is still partly standing. From the 17th century, Goes did not play an important role, except as an agricultural centre. In 1868, a railway was constructed through it, but this did not lead to industrialisation. Agriculture remains the most important economic activity.

Although the Netherlands were neutral in the First World War, seven bombs hit Goes and Kloetinge, due to an error by a British airplane. A house in Magdalenastreet in Goes was destroyed and one person killed. Goes did not suffer extensive damage during the Second World War, but was under German occupation until 1944.

Goes did not experience much population growth until the 1970s and 1980s. Then, the city grew fast because of new districts like Goese Meer, Oostmolenpark, Overzuid and Ouverture being constructed. Goes is now the fourth largest economic centre in Zeeland. New districts are in preparation, amongst them Goese Schans, Mannee and Aria, where 3,000 new houses are to be built.

==Population centers==
{{columns-list|colwidth=18em|
*[[Eindewege]]
*'''Goes'''
*[['s-Heer Arendskerke]]
*[['s-Heer Hendrikskinderen]]
*[[Kattendijke]]
*[[Kloetinge]]
*[[Oud-Sabbinge]]
*[[Wilhelminadorp, Goes|Wilhelminadorp]]
*[[Wolphaartsdijk]]
}}

===Topography===
[[File:Goes-plaats-OpenTopo.jpg|500px]]

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

==Districts==
{{columns-list|colwidth=18em|
* 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)
}}

==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in the Netherlands}}

[[File:NS-station Goes.jpg|thumb|Front of the railway station in Goes]]
Goes ''was'' [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with [[Panevėžys]], [[Lithuania]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Delegatie uit zusterstad Panevežys brengt bezoek aan Goes|url=https://www.pzc.nl/bevelanden/delegatie-uit-zusterstad-panevezys-brengt-bezoek-aan-goes~ad1744ca/|website=pzc.nl|publisher=PZC|language=nl|date=2018-06-04|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref>

On 22 July 2021 the town council decided to end the twinning.<ref>Town council meeting 22 july 2021, item 10 (in Dutch) [https://goes.raadsinformatie.nl/vergadering/789769/Debatraad%2022-07-2021] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315221748/https://goes.raadsinformatie.nl/vergadering/789769/Debatraad%2022-07-2021 |date=2023-03-15 }}, online consulted 2022-03-28.</ref>

==Transport==
Goes has a [[Goes railway station|railway station]] located on the [[Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway]].

== Notable people ==
[[File:Buys-Ballot 1857.png|140px|thumb|C.H.D. Buys Ballot, 1857]]

=== Public thinking & service ===
* [[Van Watervliet family|Cornelis van Watervliet]] (1592–1636), Mayor of Goes and member of the Court of Audit of Zeeland, buried in ''De Maria Magdalenakerk''
* [[Cornelis Caesar]] ({{Circa|1610}}–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 ===
[[File:Leo van Doeselaar001.jpg|140px|thumb|Leo van Doeselaar, 2007]]
* [[Willem Eversdijck]] ({{Circa|1620}}–1671), [[Dutch Golden Age|Golden Age]] painter
* [[Pieter Peutemans]] (1641–1698), [[Dutch Golden Age|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]]
* [[Eye-D|Frank Nitzinsky (Eye-D)]] (born 1974), music producer and DJ, one half of [[The Outside Agency]]
* [[DJ Hidden|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 ==
<gallery mode="packed">
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
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Wikivoyage|Goes}}
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*[http://www.goes.nl Official website] {{in lang|nl}}

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{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Goes
|North     = [[Noord-Beveland]]<br>''[[Veerse Meer]]''
|Northeast = ''[[Oosterschelde]]'' / [[Tholen]]
|East      = [[Kapelle]]
|Southeast = 
|South     = [[Borsele]]
|Southwest = 
|West      = [[Middelburg, Zeeland|Middelburg]]
|Northwest = 
}}
{{Dutch municipality Goes}}
{{Zeeland Province}}
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[[Category:Municipalities of Zeeland]]
[[Category:Populated places in Zeeland]]
[[Category:Zuid-Beveland]]