Gilze en Rijen Municipality
Gilze en Rijen is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. The municipality contains four villages: Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot. It is home to the Gilze-Rijen Air Base. Rijen grew in the 19th century due to its leather factories.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 26,700 residents
- Description: municipality in North Brabant, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Gilz Rijen” and “Gilze en Rijen”
- Neighbors: Breda and Tilburg
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gilze-Rijen Air Base and Gilze-Rijen railway station.
Gilze-Rijen Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gilze-Rijen Air Base is a military airbase in the south of Netherlands. It is known for having the hottest temperature ever measured in the Netherlands, with a temperature of 40.7 °C, on July 25, 2019.
Gilze-Rijen railway station
Railway station
Photo: G.Lanting, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gilze-Rijen is a railway station located in Rijen, Netherlands in the municipality Gilze en Rijen. Although the railway station is located in Rijen, it's called Gilze-Rijen because of the Gilze-Rijen Air Base, just south of Rijen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rijen and Bavel.
Rijen
Town
Rijen is the largest place in the Dutch municipality of Gilze en Rijen. The city hall is located here. Rijen is situated north of the A58, between Breda and Tilburg. Surrounding places are: Dorst, Dongen and Oosterhout. Rijen is situated 3½ km north of Gilze en Rijen Municipality.
Bavel
Village
Bavel is a village in southern Netherlands. It is located in the Dutch province of North Brabant, largely within the municipality of Breda with some rural areas in the municipality of Alphen-Chaam. Bavel is situated 6 km west of Gilze en Rijen Municipality.
Dorst
Village
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Dorst is a village in the municipality Oosterhout, in the Dutch province North Brabant. Dorst is located near Rijen and the nearest cities are Breda, Oosterhout and Tilburg. Dorst is situated 5 km northwest of Gilze en Rijen Municipality.
Gilze en Rijen Municipality
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Gilze en Rijen Municipality” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Arabic: “خيلزه آن راين”
- Aragonese: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Armenian: “Խիլզե էն Ռեյեն”
- Asturian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Basque: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Catalan: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Gilze en Rijen”
- Chinese: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Chinese: “希尔泽和赖恩”
- Danish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Gilze en Rijen”
- Dutch: “Gilze en Reijen”
- Dutch: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Dutch: “Gilze-Rijen”
- Esperanto: “Gilze en Rijen”
- French: “Gilze en Rijen”
- German: “Gilze en Rijen”
- German: “Gilze-Rijen”
- German: “Gilze”
- German: “Hulten”
- German: “Rijen”
- Hebrew: “חילזה אן ריין”
- Hungarian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Indonesian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Irish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Italian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Japanese: “ギルゼ・エ・レイエン”
- Japanese: “ギルゼ・エン・レイエン”
- Japanese: “ギルゼ”
- Japanese: “ヒルゼライエン”
- Javanese: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Kurdish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Limburgan: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Low German: “Gilse Ryen”
- Low German: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Low German: “Gilze Rijen”
- Luxembourgish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Malay: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Minangkabau: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gilze en Rijen”
- Persian: “خیلزه ان رین”
- Persian: “خیلزه انرین”
- Polish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Portuguese: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Romanian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Russian: “Гилзе-эн-Рейен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Spanish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Swedish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Turkish: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Ukrainian: “Гілзе-ен-Реєн”
- Venetian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Vietnamese: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Volapük: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gilze en Rijen”
- Western Frisian: “Gilze en Rijen”
- Zeeuws: “Gilze en Rijen”
- “Gilze en Rijen”
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