Druten () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality covers the eastern part of the region of the province of Gelderland.

One of its key features is the town's church, designed by architect Pierre Cuypers. The church is dedicated to the Two Ewalds, with statues for the two made in the studio , owned by Cuypers and Frans Stoltzenberg.

Population centres

Topography

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Druten, June 2015

Notable residents Reginald Wolfe (died 1573) a Dutch-born English Protestant printer, an original member of the Royal Stationers' Company Josef van Schaik (1882–1962) & Steef van Schaik (1888–1968) Dutch politician and brothers Ru Paré (1896–1972), a Dutch resistance member, and visual artist Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1928–2016), the twenty-ninth Superior General of the Society of Jesus Pieter Roelofs (1972), art historian Jasmijn Lau (1999-) Dutch athlete, long-distance runner

Gallery

References

External links

Official website