Since 1999, it is a part of the municipality of Zaltbommel, about eight kilometres east of Gorinchem.

[4] It developed into an irregular esdorp, then a linear dike village.

The Protestant church dates from the 15th century and has 14th-century elements.

[5] Slot Brakel was a castle from the 13th century, destroyed in 1672 by the French.

In 1768, Huis te Brakel was built on the grounds, where the centre still contains the ruins of the medieval castle as part of a garden.