Drimmelen () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

and a town in the southern

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, in the province

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 w ...

. A large portion of the Biesbosch National Park is part of this municipality.

Population centres

Towns: * Made (population: 11,710) * Terheijden (6,410) * Lage Zwaluwe (4,060) * Wagenberg (2,250) * Hooge Zwaluwe (1,670) * Drimmelen (570) Hamlets (population data concerning these hamlets are included in the population data of the towns near which they are located): * Blauwe Sluis * Oud-Drimmelen * Helkant

Topography

''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Drimmelen, June 2015.''

Transportation

The

Lage Zwaluwe railway station Lage Zwaluwe is a railway station near Lage Zwaluwe and Moerdijk, Netherlands. The station was opened in 1883 and is located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway between Breda and Dordrecht and the Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway. The services are o ...

is situated on the

Breda–Rotterdam railway The Breda–Rotterdam railway is a heavily used railway line in the Netherlands running from Breda to Rotterdam, passing through Dordrecht. It is also called the ''Staatslijn I'' ("state line I") in Dutch. The line was opened between 1866 and 1877 ...

and the railway to Roosendaal.

Notable people

Godfried Schalcken Godfried Schalcken (1643 – 16 November 1706) was a Dutch genre and portrait painter. He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders. L ...

(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

* Kees Pellenaars (1913 in Terheijden – 1988) a Dutch road cyclist and coach *

Antoon van Schendel Antoon van Schendel ( Lage Zwaluwe, 9 May 1910 — Muret, France, 6 August 1990) was a Dutch professional road bicycle racer. Born in the Netherlands, Antoon van Schendel became a professional cyclist in France. The highlight of his career was ...

(1918 in Lage Zwaluwe — 1990) a Dutch 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 Dutch marathon runner and a former long track speed skater, won two gold medals at the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the ...

* Hans Horrevoets (born 1974 in Made – 2006) a Dutch sea sailor * Tim Lips (born 1985 in Made) a Dutch eventer, competed at the

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

and the 2012 Summer Olympics * Pieter Braun (born 1993 in Terheijden) is a Dutch decathlon athlete, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Gallery

File:2006-07-08 15.03 Made, kerk.JPG, Made, kerk File:Jachthaven Drimmelen DSCF2638.JPG, Jachthaven, Drimmelen File:WLM - RuudMorijn - blocked by Flickr - - DSC 0080 Woonhuis met bedrijfsgedeelte, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis, rm 522687.jpg, Woonhuis met bedrijfsgedeelte, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis File:Zilvermeeuw Drimmelen DSCF2641.JPG, Zilvermeeuw, Drimmelen

References

External links

Official Website
Municipalities of North Brabant Populated places in North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 1998 {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub