Zwartewaal is a village in the
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. It is a part of the municipality of
Voorne aan Zee and lies about 5 km south of
Maassluis
Maassluis () is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of in and covered of which was water.
It received city rights in 1811.
History
Maassluis was founded circa 1340 as a ...
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History
The village was first mentioned in the middle of the 13th century as "ten Zwarten Wale", and means "black (water) pond created after a dike breech". Zwartewaal is dike village which developed after 1180 when the Zwartewaal polder was created. A fishing harbour was constructed outside the dike.
On 5 July 1351. the Battle of Zwartewaal was fought where
William I, Duke of Bavaria
William I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (Frankfurt am Main, 1330–1389, Le Quesnoy), was the second son of Emperor Louis IV and Margaret II of Hainaut. He was also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and ...
defeated his mother and became count of Holland. Mother and son made peace in 1354.
The Dutch Reformed church is a single aisled church from the 15th century. The tower was built in 1597.
The church is built on a ''
terp
A ''terp'', also known as a ''wierde, woerd, warf, warft, werf, werve, wurt'' or ''værft'', is an artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain that has been created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides an ...
'' (artificial hill) and is located outside of the village centre, because the village relocated due to flooding.
Zwartewaal was home to 1,006 people in 1840.
It was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1980, when it became part of
Brielle
Brielle (), also called Den Briel in Dutch and Brill in English, is a town, municipality and historic seaport in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, on the north side of the island of Voorne-Putten, at the mouth of the New ...
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[Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. ]
Gallery
File:Zwartewaal NH kerk 22-07-2010.jpg, Dutch Reformed church
Zwartewaal 1867.png, Zwartewaal and surroundings from ''Gemeente Atlas van Nederland'' by J. Kuyper, 1867
References
Voorne aan Zee
Populated places in South Holland
Former municipalities of South Holland
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