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Tholen
Harbour of Tholen
Harbour of Tholen
Flag of Tholen
Flag
Coat of arms of Tholen
Coat of arms
Highlighted position of Tholen in a municipal map of Zeeland
Location in Zeeland
Country Netherlands
Province Zeeland
Government
 • Body Municipal council
Area
 • Total 254.00 km2 (98.07 sq mi)
 • Land 147.09 km2 (56.79 sq mi)
 • Water 106.91 km2 (41.28 sq mi)
Elevation
-1 m (−3.3 ft)
Population
 (May 2014)
 • Total 25,444
 • Density 173/km2 (450/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Tholenaar
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
4675, 4690–4699
Area code 0166, 0167

Tholen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtoːlə(n)]) is a 25,000 people municipality in the southwest of the Netherlands. The municipality of Tholen takes its name from the town of Tholen, which is the largest population center in the municipality.

The municipality consists of two peninsulas, formerly islands, the larger one on the south also called Tholen, the smaller one on the north called Sint Philipsland. The two are separated by the former strait, now bay, of Krabbenkreek. The municipality is bordered on the east by the Eendracht, once a Scheldt branch but now part of the Scheldt-Rhine Canal, crossed by three road bridges, by the Oosterschelde estuary to the south, the straits of Keeten-Mastgat to the west and the Krammer strait to the north.

The town has a small historical center partly surrounded by a "gracht" and partly bordered by a harbour for fishing boats and yachts.

Population centers

Gem-Tholen-OpenTopo
Dutch Topographic map of Tholen, June 2015

On the island Sint Philipsland there are three villages:

  • Sint Philipsland
  • Anna Jacobapolder
  • Sluis

On the island Tholen there are seven population centers:

  • Oud-Vossemeer
  • Poortvliet
  • Scherpenisse
  • Sint-Annaland
  • Sint-Maartensdijk
  • Stavenisse
  • Tholen

Twin town

Tholen is twinned with:

Notable people

  • Ghiselin Danckerts (ca.1510 in Tholen – 1567) a Dutch composer, singer and music theorist
  • Sir Cornelius Vermuyden 1595 in Sint-Maartensdijk – 1677) a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch land reclamation methods to England
  • Colonel Bartholomew Vermuyden, cavalry officer in the New Model Army during the English Civil War.
  • Maertin Cornelissen Geldersman, who bought a farm named Rosevelt ("rose field") in Tholen, which gave its name to his descendants Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanore Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
  • Chris Lanooy (1881 in Sint-Annaland - 1948) a Dutch potter, designer, ceramist, painter, draftsman and sculptor, and he produced stained-glass art
  • Leen Quist (1942 in Sint Philipsland – 2014) a Dutch ceramist, liked a perfect finish and geometric (blue) lines
  • Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (born 1947 in Tholen) a Member of the European Parliament

Sport

  • Keetie van Oosten-Hage (born 1949 in Sint-Maartensdijk) a Dutch former cyclist
  • Deborah Gravenstijn (born 1974 in Tholen) a Dutch judoka and Captain in the Royal Netherlands Air Force; bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and silver medallist 2008 Summer Olympics

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See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Tholen (municipio) para niños

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