Rijen is the largest place in the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 of Gilze en Rijen

Gilze en Rijen

Gilze en Rijen is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. The municipality contains four villages Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot.Rijen grew in the 19th century due to its leather factories.- Population centres :*Rijen...

. The city hall

City hall

In local government, a city hall, town hall or a municipal building or civic centre, is the chief administrative building of a city...

 is located here. Rijen is cituated north of the A58, between Breda

Breda

Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...

 and Tilburg

Tilburg

Tilburg is a landlocked municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant.Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout....

. Surrounding places are: Dorst, Dongen and Oosterhout. As of 2007 Rijen has over 18,000 inhabitants.

Public Transport

Gilze-Rijen railway station

Gilze-Rijen railway station

Gilze-Rijen is a railway station located in Gilze en Rijen, just south of Rijen, The Netherlands. The station was opened on 5 October 1863 and is located on the Breda–Eindhoven railway between Breda and Tilburg...

 is located at the south of Rijen, trains in the directions of Breda, Tilburg, 's-Hertogenbosch and Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

 leave here. Train services are done by Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Nederlandse Spoorwegen , or NS, is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands.Its trains operate over the tracks of the Dutch national railinfrastructure, operated by ProRail, which was split off from NS in 2003...

. Busses leave from this station as well too: Gilze, Tilburg, Breda, Oosterhout and Dongen

Dongen

Dongen is a municipality and a village in the southern Netherlands. In the past it was home to a profitable Leather industry, to which a few old shoe factories in the town's older sections still testify. The town is formed near a small river called "Donge" , the water of which was used extensively...

. Bus services are operated by Veolia Transport Nederland

Veolia Transport Nederland

Veolia Transport Nederland is, like Connexxion, a Dutch subsidiary of Veolia Transdev. It provides bus, train and ferry services.-History:The company first appeared in the Netherlands in 1997 when it traded as CGEA. This company had a 70% share in the train company Lovers Rail who operated trains...

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• Bus 128 : Oosterhout - Rijen - Tilburg
• Bus 131 : Breda - Dorst - Rijen - Gilze - Tilburg
• Bus 197 : Oosterhout - Dorst - Molenschot - Rijen
• Bus 198 : 's-Gravenmoer - Dongen - Rijen