Tiel
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is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 and a town in the middle of the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

.
The town is enclosed by the Waal river and the Linge
Linge
Linge is a river in the Betuwe that is over 100 km long, which makes it one of the longest rivers that flow entirely within the Netherlands.It starts near the village Doornenburg near the German border. A legend tells us that if there will be no more pigs grazing at the castle of Doornenburg, the...

 river on the south and the north side, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
The Amsterdam–Rhine Canal or Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal is a canal in the Netherlands that was built to connect the port city of Amsterdam to the main shipping artery of the Rhine...

 on the east side. The city was founded in the 5th century AD.

The town of Tiel

Tiel is the largest town in the Betuwe
Betuwe
The Betuwe is an area in the Netherlands in the province of Gelderland...

 area, which is famous for being one of the centres of Dutch fruit production. Orchards in the area produce apple
Apple
The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...

s, pear
Pear
The pear is any of several tree species of genus Pyrus and also the name of the pomaceous fruit of these trees. Several species of pear are valued by humans for their edible fruit, but the fruit of other species is small, hard, and astringent....

s, plum
Plum
A plum or gage is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and solitary side buds , the flowers in groups of one to five together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one...

s and cherries
Cherry
The cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy stone fruit. The cherry fruits of commerce are usually obtained from a limited number of species, including especially cultivars of the wild cherry, Prunus avium....

. Tiel once housed the famous jam factory De Betuwe. After production was moved to Breda
Breda
Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...

 in 1993, the entire complex was demolished, although a part was reconstructed later. Reminding of this industry is a jam manufacturing museum and a statue of Flipje, the raspberry-based comic figure who starred in De Betuwe's advertisements since the 1930s.

Tiel is one of the oldest towns in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Originally located on the Linge
Linge
Linge is a river in the Betuwe that is over 100 km long, which makes it one of the longest rivers that flow entirely within the Netherlands.It starts near the village Doornenburg near the German border. A legend tells us that if there will be no more pigs grazing at the castle of Doornenburg, the...

 river it became an important centre of trade in the early Middle Ages, especially after the demise of Dorestad
Dorestad
In the Early Middle Ages, Dorestad was the largest settlement of northwestern Europe. It was a large, flourishing trading place, three kilometers long, situated where the rivers Rhine and Lek diverge southeast of Utrecht in the Netherlands near the modern town of Wijk bij Duurstede...

 in the 9th century. Later in the Middle Ages Tiel was associated with the Hanseatic League
Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League was an economic alliance of trading cities and their merchant guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe...

. At the height of its glory Tiel had two big churches, one of which, the St. Walburg, was a collegiate church
Collegiate church
In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons; a non-monastic, or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by a dean or provost...

 that belonged to the Teutonic Knights
Teutonic Knights
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem , commonly the Teutonic Order , is a German medieval military order, in modern times a purely religious Catholic order...

. Much of the historic centre was destroyed during the Second World War.

Every year on the second Saturday in September, a festival known as Fruitcorso is held, to
celebrate the harvest of the fruit produced in the Betuwe
Betuwe
The Betuwe is an area in the Netherlands in the province of Gelderland...

 area. It includes a parade of vehicles decorated with fruit. In the same weekend there's Appelpop
Appelpop
Appelpop is a two-day pop festival in the Dutch town of Tiel that always takes place in the second weekend of September, in the same weekend as the Fruitcorso takes place....

 on the Waalkade, which is one of the biggest free pop festivals of the Netherlands.

Tiel has also been known for its pewter
Pewter
Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally 85–99% tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead. Copper and antimony act as hardeners while lead is common in the lower grades of pewter, which have a bluish tint. It has a low melting point, around 170–230 °C ,...

 industry. The last pewter factory cum museum, which mainly produced collectibles for tourists, went bankrupt in early 2004, but has since been revived.
Tiel can be a good starting point to explore the rest of the scenic Betuwe area, particularly in May when all the fruit trees in the surrounding areas are in bloom
Blossom
In botany, blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring...

.

The Dutch author and polemicist Menno ter Braak
Menno ter Braak
Menno ter Braak was a Dutch modernist author.-Early career:Ter Braak was born in Eibergen and grew up in the town of Tiel where he proved to be an exemplary student of great intelligence. He went on to the University of Amsterdam where he majored in Dutch and History...

 (1902–1940) grew up in Tiel.

Demographics

  • Dutch
    White people
    White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin...

    : 78.4%
  • Black people
    Black people
    The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...

    : 1.2%
  • Europe
    Europe
    Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

    an: 8.2%
  • Arabs: 9.5%
  • Other non Western: 2.7%:

Notable people born in Tiel

  • Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol
    Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol
    Joan Derk, Baron van der Capellen tot den Pol was a Dutch nobleman who played a prominent role in the formation of the Batavian Republic and the revolutionary events that preceded its formation...

     (1741–1784), statesman
  • David Hendrik Chassé
    David Hendrik Chassé
    David Hendrik, Baron Chassé was a Dutch soldier who fought both for and against Napoleon. He commanded the Third Netherlands Division that intervened at a crucial moment in the Battle of Waterloo...

     (1765–1849), soldier
  • William Hendriksen
    William Hendriksen
    William Hendriksen was a New Testament scholar and writer of Bible commentaries. He was born in Tiel, Gelderland, but his family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1911. Hendriksen studied at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary before obtaining an S.T.D...

     (1900–1982), New Testament scholar
  • Mary Dresselhuys
    Mary Dresselhuys
    Mary Dresselhuys was a Dutch stage actress, although she appeared in a few movies as well. She was born in Tiel, the Netherlands and died in Amsterdam....

     (1907–2004), stage actress
  • Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk
    Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk
    Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk is a Brazilian chess player.He was Brazilian Champion in 1970, 1973, and 1988, and Pan American Champion in 1977. He was awarded the International Master title in 1978 and he is also an International Arbiter...

     (b. 1948), chess player
  • Jan van Deinsen
    Jan van Deinsen
    Jan van Deinsen is a retired football midfielder and forward from the Netherlands, who played for NEC Nijmegen, Go Ahead Eagles and Feyenoord Rotterdam during his professional career. He obtained one cap for the Dutch national team, when the Netherlands lost to the Republic of Ireland on September...

     (born 1953), football player
  • Corrie van Binsbergen (born 1957), musician
  • Anton Janssen
    Anton Janssen
    Anton Janssen is a retired Dutch footballer who played for PSV Eindhoven and was part of their European Cup victory in 1988. Janssen also played for NEC Nijmegen, Fortuna Sittard, and K.V. Kortrijk. Currently, Jannsen is doing an internship at NEC Nijmegen to receive his Professional Soccer Coach...

     (born 1963), football player
  • Wilma van Velsen
    Wilma van Velsen
    Margot Wilhelmina Teunisje van Velsen is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from The Netherlands, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union.There she won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, alongside Conny...

     (born 1964), swimmer
  • Dirk Jan Derksen
    Dirk Jan Derksen
    Dirk Jan Derksen, is a Dutch retired former football player. He is one of the only players who has played for all Limburgian professional clubs ....

     (born 1972), football player
  • Frans Duijts
    Frans Duijts
    Frans Duijts , is a Dutch singer and former André Hazes-imitator - Biography :Duijts began his singing career as an André Hazes imitator...

     (born 1979), singer
  • Bobbie Traksel
    Bobbie Traksel
    Bobbie Traksel is a Dutch professional racing cyclist for . In 2000, Traksel showed considerable promise by winning the Under-23 version of the Ronde van Vlaanderen and turned professional in 2001 with . In 2002, Traksel's surprise win at the Veenendaal–Veenendaal showed his speed and bicycle...

     (born 1981), cyclist
  • Barry Maguire
    Barry Maguire
    Barry Maguire is a Dutch/Irish footballer, who plays in midfield and defense. He currently plays for Dutch Eredivisie side VVV-Venlo.-Club career:...

    (born 1989), football player

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