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Drimmelen
Municipality
Aerial photo of Made
Aerial photo of Made
Flag of Drimmelen
Flag
 Coat of arms of Drimmelen
Coat of arms
Highlighted position of Drimmelen in a municipal map of North Brabant
Location in North Brabant
Country Netherlands
Province North Brabant
Government
 • Body Municipal council
Area
 • Total 119.43 km2 (46.11 sq mi)
 • Land 96.13 km2 (37.12 sq mi)
 • Water 23.30 km2 (9.00 sq mi)
Elevation
3 m (10 ft)
Population
 (May 2014)
 • Total 26,671
 • Density 277/km2 (720/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
4844–4845, 4920–4927
Area code 0162

Drimmelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdrɪmələ(n)]) 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.

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 is included in the population data of the towns near which they are located):

  • Blauwe Sluis
  • Oud-Drimmelen
  • Helkant

Topography

Gem-Drimmelen-OpenTopo.jpg

Dutch Topographic 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

Derksen Johannes Gijsbert Vogel
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

  • Kees Pellenaars (1913 in Terheijden – 1988) a Dutch road cyclist and coach
  • Antoon van Schendel (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
  • Hans Horrevoets (born 1974 in Made – 2006) a Dutch 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 Dutch decathlon athlete, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Gallery

  • Drimmelen-Made, de Nederlands Hervormde kerk RM28088 IMG 0821 2022-03-28 16.02

    Made, reformed church

  • Jachthaven Drimmelen DSCF2638

    Jachthaven, Drimmelen

  • WLM - RuudMorijn - blocked by Flickr - - DSC 0080 Woonhuis met bedrijfsgedeelte, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis, rm 522687

    House with business area, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis

  • Zilvermeeuw Drimmelen DSCF2641

    Zilvermeeuw, Drimmelen

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Drimmelen para niños

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