Werkendam
Template:Infobox settlement Werkendam (Template:IPA) is a town and a former municipality in southern Netherlands. The municipality, part of Land van Heusden en Altena, contained a large part of De Biesbosch area as it is located in the province of North Brabant. On 1 January 2019 it joined Woudrichem and Aalburg in the new municipality of Altena.
Population centres
[edit]- Dussen
- Hank
- Nieuwendijk
- Sleeuwijk
- 't Zand
- Werkendam
Topography
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Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Werkendam, 2013.
Transport
[edit]Public transport is by Veolia neighborhood bus to Gorinchem through Sleeuwijk Tol, and by ferry to Boven-Hardinxveld.<ref name=voetveren>Template:In lang www.voetveren.nl</ref> The bus between Utrecht and Breda, and the bus between Gorinchem and Den Bosch goes through Sleeuwijk Tol.
For road traffic to Dordrecht there is a ferry to cross the Nieuwe Merwede river.<ref name=voetveren/>
Notable people
[edit]- Gijsbert van Tienhoven (1841 in De Werken – 1914), Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1891–1894
- Anton Mussert (1894 in Werkendam – 1946), one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) and its formal leader (executed)
- Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek (1921 in Leerdam – 2015 in Werkendam), resistance fighter (line-crosser), lived in Werkendam
- Adri van Heteren (born 1951 in Gouda), SGP party chair and Christian minister (in Werkendam)
- Rebekka Kadijk (born 1979 in Werkendam), professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics
References
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