Rijsbergen | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Native Name Lang: | nl |
Pushpin Map: | Netherlands North Brabant#Netherlands |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Netherlands |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | North Brabant |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Zundert |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 8 |
Area Total Km2: | 35.36 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 6,655 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 4891 |
Area Code Type: | Dialing code |
Area Code: | 076 |
Coordinates: | 51.5169°N 4.6961°W |
Rijsbergen a town in the municipality of Zundert in the southern Netherlands.
In the town used to be an AC (Aanmeldcentrum, i.e. Asylum Request Center).
Until 1997 Rijsbergen was an independent municipality, after which it was added to Zundert.
The skyline of Rijsbergen is dominated by the neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church of Saint Bavo, which was built in 1918 as a replacement of a smaller fourteenth-century church.The church is situated in the town centre and is flanked by the former town hall, which has been transformed into a museum. Furthermore, in the outskirts of Rijsbergen a successful Garden Centre can be found named: "De Bosrand". A deeply loved place by the locals.
The countryside around Rijsbergen is dotted with eleven shrines devoted to the Virgin Mary. They were built after the Second World War as a thanksgiving for surviving the war relatively undamaged.