Hooge Zwaluwe is a village in the

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province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

. It is located in the municipality of

Drimmelen Drimmelen () is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, in the province North Brabant. A large portion of the Biesbosch National Park is part of this municipality. Population centres Towns: * Made (population: 11,710) * Terheij ...

, about 3.5 km north-west of

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History

The village was first mentioned in 1291 as Zwaluwe, and refers to a river (

Grote Hollandse Waard The Grote Waard or Hollandse Waard was a farming region in the County of Holland at the border of the Duchy of Brabant, that disappeared in the St. Elizabeth's flood. Parts of this polder are now separated by water: Hoekse Waard, Eiland van Dord ...

). The etymology is based on the verb to swell (to become bigger). Hooge (high) has been added to distinguish from

Lage Zwaluwe Lage Zwaluwe is a village in the municipality Drimmelen, North Brabant, the Netherlands. The Lage Zwaluwe railway station and the Moerdijk bridges lie to the west of the village. History The village was first mentioned in as 1291 Zwaluwe, and ...

. During the St. Elizabeth flood of 1421, the polders were flooded by the Grote Hollandse Waard. In the 16th century, a new western

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was built and Hooge Zwaluwe started to develop along the dike. South of the centre, there is a concentration of houses around the Catholic church. The Dutch Reformed church was built next to the dike between 1639 and 1641. In 1910, it was damaged by fire. A little open square tower was constructed on top of the church. The Catholic St Willibrordus Church is an aisleless church in

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style built in 1865. The tower was enlarged between 1919 and 1920. The church was decommissioned in 2013 and has been converted into a restaurant. The

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Zeldenrust was built in 1866. The wind mill was restored to working order between 1994 and 1997. The wind mill grinds on voluntary basis. Hooge Zwaluwe was home to 731 people in 1840. In 1886, a railway station opened on the

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railway line. The station closed in 1950, and the building was demolished in 1960. Hooge Zwaluwe formed a municipality with Lage Zwaluwe as

Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It included the villages of Lage Zwaluwe, and Hooge Zwaluwe. Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe existed until 1997, when it merged with Made Made or MADE may refer to: Entertain ...

. in 1996, it was merged into

Notable people

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel Johannes Gijsbert Vogel (25 June 1828 – 15 May 1915) was a Dutch landscape painter. Vogel was born in Hooge Zwaluwe, (Drimmelen), as the son of the local mayor and moved to the Hague, where he became a pupil of Andreas Schelfhout. He became a ...

(1828–1915), landscape painter

Gallery

File:Protestantse kerk (Hooge Zwaluwe) P1050602.JPG, Protestant Church File:Hooge Zwaluwe P1050630.JPG, Supermarket File:WLM - RuudMorijn - blocked by Flickr - - DSC 0066 Bestuursgebouw (voormalig raadhuis), Raadhuisstraat 5, Hooge Zwaluwe, rm 22206.jpg, Former town hall File:Zeldenrust 1.jpg, Windmill Zeldenrust

References

{{Authority control Populated places in North Brabant Drimmelen