Zaltbommel
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Zaltbommel
Bommel | |
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Saint Martin church City hall Gasthuis Tower Market Maarten van Rossum museum Water gate | |
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| Location of the municipality within Gelderland Location of the municipality within Gelderland | |
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| Coordinates: 51°48′N 5°15′E / 51.800°N 5.250°ECoordinates: 51°48′N 5°15′E / 51.800°N 5.250°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Gelderland |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Peter Rehwinkel (acting) (Template:Polparty) |
| Area | |
| • Total | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| • Land | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
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| Population | |
| • Total | Template:Dutch municipality population |
| • Density | Template:Infobox settlement/densdisp |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | 5300–5311, 5315–5318 |
| Area code | 0418 |
| Website | www |
Zaltbommel (nl), also known, historically and colloquially, as Bommel, is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands.
History
[edit | edit source]The city of Zaltbommel
[edit | edit source]The town of Zaltbommel was first mentioned as "Bomela" in the year 850. Zaltbommel received city rights in 1231 and these were renewed in 1316. In 1599 during the Eighty Years War, 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.[5]
Zaltbommel was expanded to its current size on 1 January 1999, by a merger of the municipalities of Brakel, Kerkwijk and Zaltbommel. The municipality is situated in the heart of the Netherlands, close to the A2 Motorway, the railway line from Utrecht to 's‑Hertogenbosch and the rivers Waal and Maas.
Topography
[edit | edit source]Dutch Topographic map of Zaltbommel, Sept. 2014
Dutch Topographic map of Zaltbommel (municipality), Sept. 2014
Population centres
[edit | edit source]The municipality, consists of 13 population centres and had a population of Template:Dutch municipality population in Error.
| Name | Population (1-1-2015) |
Population (1-1-2016) |
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| Aalst | 2102 | 2106 |
| Bern | 36 | 33 |
| Brakel | 3050 | 3066 |
| Bruchem | 1674 | 1668 |
| Delwijnen | 341 | 337 |
| Gameren | 2433 | 2466 |
| Kerkwijk | 629 | 640 |
| Nederhemert | 1612 | 1604 |
| Nieuwaal | 732 | 758 |
| Poederoijen | 1013 | 1039 |
| Zaltbommel | 12040 | 12143 |
| Zuilichem | 1704 | 1702 |
| Total | 27366 | 27562 |
Notable residents
[edit | edit source]- 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
- 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 Electronics
- Anton Philips (1874–1951), industrialist, co-founder of 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
[edit | edit source]- 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[6]
- Anton van Anrooy (1870–1949), painter and illustrator
- 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
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Zaltbommel (in the upper right-hand corner of the image) is situated on the banks of the Waal. Major north–south highways and railways cross the river in the town, just east of the town centre.
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1649 map of Zaltbommel in Willem and Joan Blaeu's "Toonneel der Steden"
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Tyel & Salt Boemel, 1649
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Burgemeester Van den Bosch" [Mayor Van den Bosch] (in Dutch). Gemeente Zaltbommel. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality total area
- ↑ "Postcodetool for 5301LB". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality population
- ↑ Hollandse Gedichten http://home.kpn.nl/grumbl/gedichten/Hollandse%20gedichten/Hollandse%20gedichten.htm Archived 2017-08-14 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 August 2017
- ↑ Streekarchief Bommelerwaard (Zaltbommel district archive, in Dutch) Retrieved 5 January 2017
External links
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Media related to Zaltbommel at Wikimedia Commons- Official website (in Dutch)
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