Drimmelen
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Drimmelen | |
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| Aerial photo of Made Aerial photo of Made | |
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| Highlighted position of Drimmelen in a municipal map of North Brabant Location in North Brabant | |
| Coordinates: 51°41′N 4°48′E / 51.683°N 4.800°ECoordinates: 51°41′N 4°48′E / 51.683°N 4.800°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | North Brabant |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Boy Scholtze (Template:Polparty) |
| Area | |
| • Total | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| • Land | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| • Water | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| Elevation | Template:Infobox settlement/lengthdisp |
| Population | |
| • Total | Template:Dutch municipality population |
| • Density | Template:Infobox settlement/densdisp |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | 4844–4845, 4920–4927 |
| Area code | 0162 |
| Website | www |
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Drimmelen (nl) 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 | edit source]Towns:
- Made (population: 11,710)
- Terheijden (6,410)
- Lage Zwaluwe (4,060)
- Wagenberg (2,250)
- Hooge Zwaluwe (1,670)
- Drimmelen (570)
Hamlets (population data included in that of nearby towns):
- Blauwe Sluis
- Oud-Drimmelen
- Helkant
Topography
[edit | edit source]File:Gem-Drimmelen-OpenTopo.jpg
Map of the municipality of Drimmelen, June 2015.
Transportation
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]- Kees Pellenaars (1913 in Terheijden – 1988) a road cyclist and coach
- Antoon van Schendel (1918 in Lage Zwaluwe – 1990) a 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 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 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 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 | edit source]- ↑ "Burgemeester Boy Scholtze" (in Dutch). Gemeente Drimmelen. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality total area
- ↑ "Postcodetool for 4921BV". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality population
External links
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