title: Rucphen
text: # Rucphen
  
  Rucphen (pronounced (listen)) is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands between Roosendaal and Etten-Leur, south of the railway, but without a train-station.
  
  ## Population centres
  
  * Sint Willebrord ('t Heike) (pop.: 9,320)
  * Sprundel (5,090)
  * Rucphen (4,580)
  * Zegge (2,210)
  * Schijf (1,430)
  
  ### Topography
  
  Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Rucphen, June 2015
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Hendrik Detmers (1761 in Sprundel – 1825) a Dutch general in the Battle of Waterloo
  * Dick Jaspers (born 1965 in Sint Willebrord) a Dutch professional carom billiards player
  * John Kerstens (born 1965 in Zegge) a Dutch politician and former trade union leader
  * Donny Gorter (born 1988) a Dutch professional footballer with over 200 club caps
  * Tessa ter Sluis (born 1995 in Sint Willebrord) a Dutch professional squash player
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Oude Raadhuis van Rucphen
  * Heilig Hartbeeld aan de zijkant van de Martinuskerk in Rucphen
  * Rucphense Heide
  * Dorpsstraat in Sint Willebrord
  