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.
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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