Hooge Zwaluwe
Hooge Zwaluwe is a small village in North Brabant, the Netherlands. It is part of the municipality of Drimmelen and lies about 3.5 km northwest of Made.
The village was first mentioned in 1291 as Zwaluwe, named after the nearby river Grote Hollandse Waard. The word Hooge (high) was added to tell it apart from Lage Zwaluwe. In 1421, during the St. Elizabeth flood, the surrounding polders were flooded. In the 16th century a new western dike was built and Hooge Zwaluwe grew along the dike.
Important buildings include the Dutch Reformed Church, built next to the dike between 1639 and 1641, which was damaged by fire in 1910 and later got a small square tower. The Catholic St Willibrordus Church was built in 1865 in Gothic Revival style; its tower was enlarged in 1919–1920 and the church was decommissioned in 2013 and turned into a restaurant.
The grist mill Zeldenrust was built in 1866, and the wind mill was restored between 1994 and 1997. It is still kept in working order by volunteers.
A railway station opened in 1886 on the Lage Zwaluwe to ’s-Hertogenbosch line, but it closed in 1950 and the building was demolished in 1960.
In 1840, Hooge Zwaluwe had 731 residents. Today about 1,770 people live there, in an area of about 16 square kilometers. The village used to form a municipality with Lage Zwaluwe as Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, but in 1996 they were merged into Drimmelen.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 04:24 (CET).