Zaltbommel

Zaltbommel (Dutch pronunciation: [zɑldˈbɔməl] ⓘ), also known, historically and colloquially, as Bommel, is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands.

Zaltbommel received city rights in 1231 and these were renewed in 1316.

In 1599 during the Eighty Years War, Zaltbommel was besieged by Spanish forces but was relieved by an Anglo-Dutch force led by Maurice of Orange.

The bridge over the Waal at Zaltbommel (which has since been replaced) features in a celebrated twentieth-century Dutch sonnet, De moeder de vrouw, by Martinus Nijhoff.

The municipality is situated in the heart of the Netherlands, close to the A2 Motorway, the railway line from Utrecht to 's‑Hertogenbosch and the rivers Waal and Maas.

Maarten van Rossum, pre-1542
Anouchka van Miltenburg, 2011
Thorwald Jørgensen, 2015