Drimmelen
# Drimmelen

Drimmelen (Dutch pronunciation: (listen)) is a municipality and a town in the 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 are 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

## Gallery

* Made, reformed church
* Jachthaven, Drimmelen
* Woonhuis met bedrijfsgedeelte, Bloemendaalse Zeedijk 40, Blauwe Sluis
* Zilvermeeuw, Drimmelen
