Editing Zaltbommel

{{Infobox settlement
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<!-- Name and transliteration -->| name               = Zaltbommel
| other_name         = Bommel
| settlement_type    = <!-- Images, nickname, motto -->
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  | alt1                   = Saint Martin church
  | caption1               = Saint Martin church
  | image2                 = Zaltbommel stadhuis.jpg
  | alt2                   = City hall
  | caption2               = City hall
  | image3                 = Zaltbommel kapel.jpg
  | alt3                   = Gasthuis Tower
  | caption3               = Gasthuis Tower
  | image4                 = Zaltbommel markt.jpg
  | alt4                   = Market
  | caption4               = Market
  | image5                 = Zaltbommel, het Maarten van Rossumhuis RM40237 foto3 2012-10-07 09.34.jpg
  | alt5                   = Maarten van Rossum museum
  | caption5               = Maarten van Rossum museum
  | image6                 = Zaltbommel waterpoort.jpg
  | alt6                   = Water gate
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| map_caption        = Location of the municipality within Gelderland
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location within the Netherlands##Location within Europe
| pushpin_relief     = 1
| coordinates        = {{coord|51|48|N|5|15|E|region:NL|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes = 
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = [[Netherlands]]
| subdivision_type1  = [[Provinces of the Netherlands|Province]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Gelderland]]
| government_footnotes = <ref name="mayor_now">{{cite web 
 |url = http://www.zaltbommel.nl/Bestuur%20en%20organisatie/College%20van%20B%20en%20W/Burgemeester%20en%20wethouders/Burgemeester%20Van%20den%20Bosch
 |title = Burgemeester Van den Bosch
 |trans-title = Mayor Van den Bosch
 |language = nl
 |publisher = Gemeente Zaltbommel
 |access-date = 24 July 2014}}</ref>
| governing_body     = [[Municipal council (Netherlands)|Municipal council]]
| leader_party       = PvdA
| leader_title       = [[Burgemeester|Mayor]]
| leader_name        = [[Peter Rehwinkel]] (acting)
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| area_water_km2     = {{Dutch municipality water area|Zaltbommel}}
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web 
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 |title = Postcodetool for 5301LB
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 |author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> 
 |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
 |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis
 |access-date = 24 July 2014}}</ref>
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| postal_code_type   = [[Postal codes in the Netherlands|Postcode]]
| postal_code        = 5300–5311, 5315–5318
| area_code_type     = [[Telephone numbers in the Netherlands|Area code]]
| area_code          = 0418
| website            = {{URL|1=http://www.zaltbommel.nl}}
| footnotes          = 
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'''Zaltbommel''' ({{IPA|nl|zɑldˈbɔməl|-|Nl-Zaltbommel.ogg}}), also known, historically and colloquially, as '''Bommel''', is a [[Municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] and a city in the [[Netherlands]].

== 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]].

== Topography ==
[[File:Gem-Zaltbommel-OpenTopo.jpg|475px|Dutch Topographic map of Zaltbommel, Sept. 2014]]

''Dutch Topographic map of Zaltbommel (municipality), Sept. 2014''

== Population centres ==
The municipality, consists of 13 population centres and had a population of {{formatnum:{{Dutch municipality population|Zaltbommel}}}} in {{YEAR|{{Dutch municipality population|popbaseyear}}}}.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name
! style="text-align:right" | Population<br>(1-1-2015)
! style="text-align:right" | Population<br>(1-1-2016)
|-
| [[Aalst, Zaltbommel|Aalst]]
| style="text-align:right" | 2102
| style="text-align:right" | 2106
|-
| [[Bern, Netherlands|Bern]]
| style="text-align:right" | 36
| style="text-align:right" | 33
|-
| [[Brakel, Gelderland|Brakel]]
| style="text-align:right" | 3050
| style="text-align:right" | 3066
|-
| [[Bruchem]]
| style="text-align:right" | 1674
| style="text-align:right" | 1668
|-
| [[Delwijnen]]
| style="text-align:right" | 341
| style="text-align:right" | 337
|-
| [[Gameren]]
| style="text-align:right" | 2433
| style="text-align:right" | 2466
|-
| [[Kerkwijk]]
| style="text-align:right" | 629
| style="text-align:right" | 640
|-
| [[Nederhemert]]
| style="text-align:right" | 1612
| style="text-align:right" | 1604
|-
| [[Nieuwaal]]
| style="text-align:right" | 732
| style="text-align:right" | 758
|-
| [[Poederoijen]]
| style="text-align:right" | 1013
| style="text-align:right" | 1039
|-
| Zaltbommel
| style="text-align:right" | 12040
| style="text-align:right" | 12143
|-
| [[Zuilichem]]
| style="text-align:right" | 1704
| style="text-align:right" | 1702
|-
! Total
! style="text-align:right" | '''27366'''
! style="text-align:right" | '''27562'''
|-
|}

==Notable residents==
[[File:Maarten van Rossum.jpg|135px|thumb|Maarten van Rossum, pre-1542]]
[[File:Anouchka-van-miltenburg-1310465197.jpg|135px|thumb|Anouchka van Miltenburg, 2011]]
* [[Maarten van Rossum]] (ca.1478–1555) military tactician and commander
* [[Elbertus Leoninus]] (1519 or 1520 – 1598) jurist and statesman, helped negotiate the [[Pacification of Ghent]]
* [[Marigje Arriens]] (ca.1520–1591) an alleged Dutch witch
* [[Caspar Barlaeus]] (1584–1648) polymath and Renaissance humanist, a theologian, poet, and historian
* [[Andreas Essenius]] (1618–1677) Dutch Reformed theologian, controversialist and academic
* [[Jacob Abraham de Mist]] (1749–1823) statesman, Head of State of the [[National Assembly of the Batavian Republic]]
* [[Lion Philips]] (1794–1866) tobacco merchant, grandfather of Gerard and Anton Philips
* [[Henriette_Pressburg#Sophie_Pressburg_and_Lion_Philips|Sophie Pressburg]] (1797–1854), grandmother of Anton and Gerard Philips
* [[Hendrik Antonie Lodewijk Hamelberg]] (1826–1896), consul general and special envoy of the [[Orange Free State]]
* [[Gerard Philips]] (1858–1942), industrialist, co-founder of [[Philips|Philips Electronics]]
* [[Anton Philips]] (1874–1951), industrialist, co-founder of [[Philips|Philips Electronics]]
* [[Johannes van Maaren]] (1890–1963) wrestler, competed at the 1920, 1924 and [[1928 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Anouchka van Miltenburg]] (born 1967) retired politician

=== The arts ===
[[File:Thorwald Jørgensen, theremin.png|140px|thumb|Thorwald Jørgensen, 2015]]
* [[Lucas Vorsterman]] (1595–1675), Baroque engraver
* [[Warnard van Rijsen]] (1625–1670), a [[Dutch Golden Age]] painter. 
* [[Johannes Vorstermans]] (ca.1643– ca.1699/1719) [[Dutch Golden Age]] landscape painter.
* [[Gerard Hoet]], (1648–1743) [[Dutch Golden Age]] painter 
* [[Jan Soukens]] (c.1650–c.1725) a [[Dutch Golden Age]] painter
* [[Suzanne Leenhoff]] (1829–1906), pianist, married [[Édouard Manet]] at Zaltbommel in 1863<ref>[http://streekarchiefbommelerwaard.blogspot.de/2013/10/manet-french-connection.html Streekarchief Bommelerwaard (Zaltbommel district archive, in Dutch) Retrieved 5 January 2017]</ref>
* [[Peter van Anrooy]] (1879–1954) composer and conductor of classical music
* [[Fiep Westendorp]] (1916-2004), illustrator
* [[Thorwald Jørgensen]] (born 1980) classical musician, specialises in the [[theremin]]

==Image gallery==
<gallery widths=180px heights=150px>
File:Zaltbommel Waalbruggen 001.jpg|Zaltbommel (in the upper right-hand corner of the image) is situated on the banks of the [[Waal (river)|Waal]]. Major north–south highways and railways cross the river in the town, just east of the town centre.
File:Zaltbommel 1649 Blaeu.jpg|1649 map of Zaltbommel in [[Willem Blaeu|Willem]] and [[Joan Blaeu]]'s "Toonneel der Steden"
File:Tiel + 1649 Blaeu'.jpg|Tyel & Salt Boemel, 1649
</gallery>

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

== External links ==
*{{Commons category-inline}}
* {{Official website|URL=http://www.zaltbommel.nl/?ContentType=stadsomroeper&ProductID=1056}} {{in lang|nl}}

{{Geographic location
 | Centre    = Zaltbommel
 | North     = [[West Betuwe]]<br>''[[Waal (river)|Waal]]''
 | East      = [[Maasdriel]]
 | South     = ''[[Meuse (river)|Maas]]''<br>[[Heusden]] ([[North Brabant|NB]])
 | West      = [[Altena, North Brabant|Altena]] ([[North Brabant|NB]])
 | Northwest = [[Gorinchem]] ([[South Holland|ZH]])<br>''[[Boven Merwede]]''
}}
{{Dutch municipality Zaltbommel}}
{{Gelderland Province}}
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[[Category:Municipalities of Gelderland]]
[[Category:Populated places in Gelderland]]