Zwiggelte

Zwiggelte

Zwiggelte

Village in Drenthe, Netherlands

Zwiggelte is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Midden-Drenthe, and lies about 15 km south of Assen.

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The village was first mentioned around 1400 as Wolbert to Swicler, and could mean "meadow with cattle".[3] Zwiggelte is an esdorp which developed in the Middle Ages on the road from Westerbork to Assen. It might have been a satellite of Westerbork. It used to have two brinks (village squares). Of the northern brink only a dobbe (natural pool) remains.[4]

Zwiggelte was home to 184 people in 1840.[5] The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope and a large part of Westerbork transit camp were technically located in Zwiggelte and not Westerbork.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Postcodetool for 9433PA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Zwiggelte - (geografische naam)". Etymologiebank (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  4. [4]
    Ronald Stenvert (2001). Zwiggelte (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. p. 61. ISBN 90 400 9454 3. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Zwiggelte". Plaatsengids (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 April 2022.
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