Editing Zaltbommel (section)

== History ==

=== The city of Zaltbommel ===
The town of Zaltbommel was first mentioned as "Bomela" in the year 850. Zaltbommel received [[City rights in the Netherlands|city rights]] in 1231 and these were renewed in 1316. In 1599 during the [[Eighty Years War]], Zaltbommel [[Siege of Zaltbommel|was besieged]] by Spanish forces but was relieved by an Anglo-Dutch force led by [[Maurice of Orange]]. The bridge over the Waal at Zaltbommel (which has since been replaced) features in a celebrated twentieth-century Dutch sonnet, ''De moeder de vrouw'', by [[Martinus Nijhoff]].<ref>Hollandse Gedichten http://home.kpn.nl/grumbl/gedichten/Hollandse%20gedichten/Hollandse%20gedichten.htm Retrieved 4 August 2017</ref>

Zaltbommel was expanded to its current size on 1 January 1999, by a merger of the municipalities of [[Brakel (Gelderland)|Brakel]], [[Kerkwijk]] and Zaltbommel. The municipality is situated in the heart of the Netherlands, close to the A2 Motorway, the railway line from [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]] to [['s-Hertogenbosch|'s‑Hertogenbosch]] and the rivers [[Waal (river)|Waal]] and [[Meuse (river)|Maas]].