Drimmelen
Template:Infobox settlement Drimmelen (Template:IPA) is a municipality and a town in southern Netherlands, in the province North Brabant.
A large portion of the Biesbosch National Park is part of this municipality.
Population centres
[edit]Towns:
- Made (population: 11,710)
- Terheijden (6,410)
- Lage Zwaluwe (4,060)
- Wagenberg (2,250)
- Hooge Zwaluwe (1,670)
- Drimmelen (570)
Hamlets (population data concerning these hamlets is included in the population data of the towns near which they are located):
- Blauwe Sluis
- Oud-Drimmelen
- Helkant
Topography
[edit]File:Gem-Drimmelen-OpenTopo.jpg
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Drimmelen, June 2015.
Transportation
[edit]The Lage Zwaluwe railway station is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway and the railway to Roosendaal.
Notable people
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- Godfried Schalcken (1643 in Made – 1706) a Dutch genre and portrait painter
- Pieter Rudolph Kleijn (1785 in Hooge Zwaluwe – 1816) a 19th-century landscape painter
- Petrus van Schendel (1806 in Terheijden - 1870) a Dutch-Belgian Romantic style genre painter
- Johannes Gijsbert Vogel (1828 in Hooge Zwaluwe – 1915) a Dutch landscape painter
- Antal van den Bosch (born 1969 in Made) a Dutch-language researcher and former academic
Sport
[edit]- Kees Pellenaars (1913 in Terheijden – 1988) a Dutch road cyclist and coach
- Antoon van Schendel (1918 in Lage Zwaluwe — 1990) a Dutch professional road bicycle racer.
- Wim Hofkens (born 1958 in Made) a former football player with 474 club caps
- Gianni Romme (born 1973 in Lage Zwaluwe) a Dutch marathon runner and a former long track speed skater, won two gold medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Hans Horrevoets (born 1974 in Made – 2006) a Dutch sea sailor
- Tim Lips (born 1985 in Made) a Dutch eventer, competed at the 2008 and the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Pieter Braun (born 1993 in Terheijden) is a Dutch decathlon athlete, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Gallery
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Made, reformed church
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Jachthaven, Drimmelen
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House with business area, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis
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Zilvermeeuw, Drimmelen
References
[edit]External links
[edit]Template:Geographic location Template:Dutch municipality Drimmelen Template:North Brabant Province Template:Authority control