Huizen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses in the region appeared here
is known as a former fishing village, although only at the end of the seventeenth century, the fishing one of the main means of existence was. This was particularly agriculture and cottage industry a major source of life. Houses in the fourteenth century got its name because it, reportedly, the first town in the Gooi was that the stone houses had
The fishing had its flowering in the nineteenth century, especially in 1854 when finally a port in use could be taken. Huizen was one of the major fishing sites around the Zuiderzee. About 190 fishing boats had homes as home. At the end of the twentieth century had been fishing quite less and the construction of the Afsluitdijk gave the final blow. The village saw the future, especially after the cheesemaker.
