Brummen
Brummen is a municipality and a village in eastern Netherlands.
Brummen has a small railway station - Brummen railway station on the line between Zutphen and Arnhem. The village is situated about southwest of Zutphen, no further than 1.5 km from the IJssel river. About two kilometers west of the village, on the edge of the Veluwe forest area, lies the Engelenburg resort, a castle-like house. It is in use as a hotel for golf players and has a 9-hole golf-link.
Population centres
- Brummen
- Eerbeek
- Empe
- Hall - with an interesting chapel dating from the Middle Ages
- Leuvenheim
- Oeken
- Tonden
- Voorstonden
Transportation
- Brummen railway station is served by two trains per hour, serving places such as Zutphen, Dieren, Arnhem and Nijmegen.
International relations
Twin towns — sister cities
Brummen is twinned with:Notable people
- Jan Elias Nicolaas Schimmelpenninck van der Oye a Dutch politician
- Cornelis Johannes van Doorn a Dutch civil engineer and foreign advisor to Meiji period Japan
- Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten a Dutch public servant in the Dutch East Indies
- Dick Dolman a Dutch politician
Sport
- Geurt Schoonman a Dutch sports shooter, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Wiljon Vaandrager a former rower, bronze medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Stefan Groothuis a retired Dutch speed skater, gold medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics