title: Werkendam
text: # Werkendam
  
  Werkendam (Dutch pronunciation: (listen)) is a town and a former municipality in the southern Netherlands. The municipality, part of Land van Heusden en Altena, contained a large part of De Biesbosch area as is located in the province of North Brabant. On January 1sth 2019 it joined Woudrichem and Aalburg in the new municipality of Altena.
  
  ## Population centres
  
  * Dussen
  * Hank
  * Nieuwendijk
  * Sleeuwijk
  * 't Zand
  * Werkendam
  
  ### Topography
  
  Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Werkendam, 2013.
  
  ## Transport
  
  Public transport is by Veolia neighborhood bus to Gorinchem through Sleeuwijk Tol, and by ferry to Boven-Hardinxveld. The bus between Utrecht and Breda, and the bus between Gorinchem and Den Bosch goes through Sleeuwijk Tol.
  
  For road traffic to Dordrecht there is a ferry to cross the Nieuwe Merwede river.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Gijsbert van Tienhoven (1841 in De Werken – 1914), Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1891–1894
  * Anton Mussert (1894 in Werkendam – 1946), one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) and its formal leader (executed)
  * Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek (1921 in Leerdam – 2015 in Werkendam), resistance fighter (line-crosser), lived in Werkendam
  * Adri van Heteren (born 1951 in Gouda), SGP party chair and Christian minister (in Werkendam)
  * Rebekka Kadijk (born 1979 in Werkendam), professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics
  