Zevenbergen is a Dutch city which is a part of the municipality of Moerdijk. Zevenbergen is located in the northwest of the province of Noord-Brabant near Breda. Moerdijk is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. ... North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River (Maas) in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west. ... Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. ...

History

Zevenbergen (literal translation: Seven Hills) is presumably named after the hills that formed a natural barrier of protection during the time of the Roman Empire. The actual number of hills is debatable however and was most likely not seven. Archeological excavations in 1964 and 1965 revealed that two of the hills were already present during the Bronze Age. The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ...

From the mid-ninteenth century until the end of the twentieth century, Zevenbergen was most famous for its sugar production housing three sugar factories. It is as a result of the needed transport of sugar that Zevenbergen gets its railways.

Public Transportation

Zevenbergen has its own train station which, together with Oudenbosch, is one of the oldest train stations in the Netherlands. The only station older is the trainstation in Valkenburg. Valkenburg aan de Geul - a town in the Netherlands. ...

Facts

• Vincent van Gogh, the famous Dutch painter, lived in Zevenbergen for part of his life