Brummen () is a municipality and a village in eastern Netherlands.

Brummen has a small railway station – Brummen railway station on the line between Zutphen and Arnhem. The village is situated about southwest of Zutphen, no further than 1.5km from the IJssel river. About two kilometers west of the village, on the edge of the Veluwe forest area, lies the Engelenburg resort, a castle-like house. It is in use as a hotel for golf players and has a 9-hole golf-link.

Population centres

• Brummen

• Eerbeek (the largest village in the municipality)

• Empe (which has a small railway station on the line Apeldoorn-Zutphen)

• Hall - with an interesting chapel dating from the Middle Ages

• Leuvenheim

• Oeken

• Tonden

• Voorstonden

Transportation

• Brummen railway station is served by two trains per hour, serving places such as Zutphen, Dieren, Arnhem and Nijmegen.

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Brummen is twinned with:

Notable people

• Jan Elias Nicolaas Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1836 in Brummen – 1914) a politician

• Cornelis Johannes van Doorn (1837 in Hall – 1906) a civil engineer and foreign advisor to Meiji period Japan

• Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten (1898 in Eerbeek – 1991) a public servant in the Dutch East Indies

• Dick Dolman (1935 in Empe – 2019) a politician

Sport

• Geurt Schoonman (1896 in Brummen – 1971) a sports shooter, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics

• Wiljon Vaandrager (born 1957 in Brummen) a former rower, bronze medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics

• Stefan Groothuis (born 1981 in Empe) a retired speed skater, gold medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Gallery

References

External links

• Official website