Drimmelen

• Name — Drimmelen • Type — Municipality • Image Flag — Gemeentevlag_van_Drimmelen.svg • Flag Size — 100x67px • Image Shield — Gemeentewapen Drimmelen.svg • Shield Size — 100x80px • Image Map — Map - NL - Municipality code 1719 (2009).svg • Map Alt — Highlighted position of Drimmelen in a municipal map of North Brabant • Map Caption — Location in North Brabant • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Netherlands • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — North Brabant • Governing Body — Municipal council • Leader Party — VVD • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Boy Scholtze • Unit Pref — Metric • Area Total Km2 — Drimmelen • Area Land Km2 — Drimmelen • Area Water Km2 — Drimmelen • Elevation M — 3 • Population Total — Drimmelen • Population As Of — popbasemonth popbaseyear • Population Density Km2 — Drimmelen • Time Zone — CET • Utc Offset — +1 • Time Zone Dst — CEST • Utc Offset Dst — +2 • Postal Code Type — Postcode • Postal Code — 4844–4845, 4920–4927 • Area Code Type — Area code • Area Code — 0162 • Website — 1=http: www.drimmelen.nl Drimmelen (187 Drimmelen.ogg) 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.

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

Map of the municipality of Drimmelen, June 2015.

The Lage Zwaluwe railway station is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway and the railway to Roosendaal.

• Illustration — J G Vogel, 1910 • 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

• 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

• Illustration — Made, reformed church • Illustration — Jachthaven, Drimmelen • Illustration — House with business area, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis • Illustration — Zilvermeeuw, Drimmelen