Drimmelen
Municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands
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Drimmelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdrɪmələ(n)] ⓘ) is a municipality and a town in southern Netherlands, in the province North Brabant.
Drimmelen | |
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Aerial photo of Made | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
.svg) Location in North Brabant | |
| Coordinates: 51°41′N 4°48′E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | North Brabant |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Boy Scholtze (VVD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 119.43 km2 (46.11 sq mi) |
| • Land | 95.18 km2 (36.75 sq mi) |
| • Water | 24.25 km2 (9.36 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3 m (9.8 ft) |
| Population (January 2021)[4] | |
• Total | 27,325 |
| • Density | 287/km2 (740/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | 4844–4845, 4920–4927 |
| Area code | 0162 |
| Website | www |
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 included in that of nearby towns):
- Blauwe Sluis
- Oud-Drimmelen
- Helkant
Topography
Map of the municipality of Drimmelen, June 2015.
Transportation
The Lage Zwaluwe railway station is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway and the railway to Roosendaal.
Notable people
- 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
- 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
Made, reformed church
Jachthaven, Drimmelen
House with business area, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis
Zilvermeeuw, Drimmelen
