Rucphen
Encyclopedia
Rucphen is a municipality
and a town in the southern Netherlands
between Roosendaal and Etten-Leur
, south of the railway, but without a train-station.
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...
and a town in the southern Netherlands
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...
between Roosendaal and Etten-Leur
Etten-Leur
Etten-Leur is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. Its name is a combination of the two towns from which the municipality originally arose: Etten and Leur...
, south of the railway, but without a train-station.
Population centres
- Sint WillebrordSint WillebrordSint Willebrord is a town in the municipality of Rucphen in the Netherlands. It is also known by the name t Heike which was the semi-official name up until 1950/1970 , which is the diminutive form of hei in local dialect...
(t Heike) (population: 9,320) - SprundelSprundelSprundel is a small town in the southern Netherlands. In the past it was the main city of the region, with roads to Roosendaal to the west, Breda to the east, Rotterdam to the north and Antwerp to the south.Film Director Ad Bol was born and raised here....
(5,090) - Rucphen (4,580)
- ZeggeZeggeZegge is a small village located in North Brabant province in the Netherlands. Due to its small size, much of the daily life of its inhabitants centers around the nearby city of Roosendaal....
(2,210) - Schijf (1,430)