Zaltbommel

Zaltbommel is a municipality and a metropolis in the Netherlands. Zaltbommel become improved to its current length on 1 January 1999, by means of a merger of the municipalities of Brakel, Kerkwijk and Zaltbommel. The municipality is situated in the heart of the Netherlands, near the A2 Motorway, the railway line from Utrecht to 's‑Hertogenbosch and the rivers Waal and Maas. The municipality, includes 13 populace centres and had a population of 27,940 in 2017.

The town of Zaltbommel was first cited as "Bomela" within the 12 months 850. Zaltbommel obtained town rights in 1231 and those had been renewed in 1316. In 1599 for the duration of the Eighty Years War, Zaltbommel turned into besieged through Spanish forces but became relieved via an Anglo-Dutch pressure led with the aid of Maurice of Orange. The bridge over the Waal at Zaltbommel which has due to the fact that been replaced functions in a celebrated 20th-century Dutch sonnet, De moeder de vrouw, by means of Martinus Nijhoff.