Drimmelen
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.
Drimmelen
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- Drimmelen
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Drimmelen • Type — Municipality • Shield Size — 100x80px • 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
Population centres
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 included in that of nearby towns): • Blauwe Sluis • Oud-Drimmelen • Helkant
Topography
Topography
Map of the municipality of Drimmelen, June 2015.
Transportation
Transportation
The Lage Zwaluwe railway station is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway and the railway to Roosendaal.
Notable people
Notable people
• 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
Sport
Sport
• 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
Gallery
• Illustration — Made, reformed church • Illustration — Jachthaven, Drimmelen • Illustration — House with business area, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis • Illustration — Zilvermeeuw, Drimmelen
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.Gemeente Drimmelen. Burgemeester Boy Scholtze.
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- 3.Het Waterschapshuis. Postcodetool for 4921BV. Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland.
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