Drimmelen

Drimmelen 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


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

 * 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