Drongelen is a village in the

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province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

. It is located in the municipality of

Altena Altena (; Westphalian: ''Altenoa'') is a town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The town's castle is the origin for the later Dukes of Berg. Altena is situated on the Lenne river valley, in the northern stretc ...

. The village was first mentioned in 1270 as de Drungele, and might mean "open forest near the Drongel river". The church of Drongelen was destroyed by a flood in 1509, and not rebuilt until 1700. In November and December 1944, almost the entire village and the church were destroyed during the fighting between the Allied Forces and the German army. A wooden church was donated by Sweden as a temporary church. In 1951, a new church was rebuilt. The wooden church was moved to

Amstelveen Amstelveen () is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands with a population of 92.353 as of 2022. It is a suburban part of the Amsterdam metropolitan area. The municipality of Amstelveen consists of the historical villages o ...

where it burnt down in 2000. Drongelen was home to 358 people in 1840. The school closed in 1984 and became the village house. There is a free car ferry between Drongen and

Waalwijk Waalwijk () is a municipality and a city in the southern Netherlands. It had a population of in and is located near the motorways A59 and N261. The villages of Capelle, Vrijhoeve-Capelle, Sprang (the former municipality of Sprang-Capelle) and W ...

. Drongelen was a separate municipality until 1923, when it was merged with

Eethen Eethen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Altena. The village was first mentioned in 850 as Atina. The etymology is unclear. Eethen developed on a sand hill in the Middle Ages and part of the ...

. Before 1908, the name of the municipality was '' Drongelen, Haagoort, Gansoijen en Doeveren''.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006.

Gallery

File:(Meisry), reproductie door J.de Beijer, 1738 - Dorsen - 20063353 - RCE.jpg, Castle Meisry (1738) File:Zicht op de veerpont over de Bergsche Maas tussen Drongelen en Waalwijk met omgeving - Drongelen - 20413797 - RCE.jpg, Ferry between Drongelen and Waalwijk

References

Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Geography of Altena, North Brabant {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub