Werkendam
Werkendam is a town and a former municipality in southern Netherlands. The municipality, part of Land van Heusden en Altena, contained a large part of De Biesbosch area as it is located in the province of North Brabant. On 1 January 2019 it joined Woudrichem and Aalburg in the new municipality of Altena.
Population centres
- Dussen
- Hank
- Nieuwendijk
- Sleeuwijk
- 't Zand
- Werkendam
Topography
Transport
is by Veolia neighborhood bus to Gorinchem through Sleeuwijk Tol, and by ferry to Boven-Hardinxveld. The bus between Utrecht and Breda, and the bus between Gorinchem and Den Bosch goes through Sleeuwijk Tol.For road traffic to Dordrecht there is a ferry to cross the Nieuwe Merwede river.
Notable people
- Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1891–1894
- Anton Mussert, one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands and its formal leader
- Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek, resistance fighter, lived in Werkendam
- Adri van Heteren, SGP party chair and Christian minister
- Rebekka Kadijk, professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics