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
- Terheijden
- Lage Zwaluwe
- Wagenberg
- Hooge Zwaluwe
- Drimmelen
- 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 Belgian [railway line 12|railway to Roosendaal].Notable people
- Godfried Schalcken a Dutch genre and portrait painter
- Pieter Rudolph Kleijn a 19th-century landscape painter
- Petrus van Schendel a Dutch-Belgian Romantic style genre painter
- Johannes Gijsbert Vogel a Dutch landscape painter
- Antal van den Bosch a Dutch-language researcher and former academic
Sport
- Kees Pellenaars a Dutch road cyclist and coach
- Antoon van Schendel a Dutch professional road bicycle racer.
- Wim Hofkens a former football player with 474 club caps
- Gianni Romme a Dutch marathon runner and a former long track speed skater, won two gold medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Hans Horrevoets a Dutch sea sailor
- Tim Lips a Dutch eventer, competed at the 2008 and the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Pieter Braun is a Dutch decathlon athlete, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics