Tielt-Winge

Tielt-Winge
Tielt-Winge
State :	Belgium
Region :	Flanders
Province :	Flemish Brabant
District :	Lions
Coordinates :	50 ° 55 '  N , 4 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '  N , 4 ° 54'  E
Area :	44.16 km²
Residents:	10,747 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	243 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	3390, 3391
Prefix:	016
Mayor:	Rudi Beeken ( Open VLD )
Local government address :	Gemeentehuis, Kruisstraat 2, 3390 Tielt-Winge
Website:	www.tielt-winge.be

Tielt-Winge is a Belgian municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant , in the heart of the Hageland . It includes the sub-municipalities of Tielt, Houwaart, Meensel-Kiezegem and Sint-Joris-Winge.

In World War II

Residents of the village of Meensel-Kiezegem, which consisted of two parishes and in which around 900 people lived in 1944, were victims of retaliation. In an exchange of fire with a small resistance group, Gaston Merckx, son of a farming family collaborating with the German occupiers, was fatally injured. A raid followed on August 1, 1944, during which German and Belgian SS units searched houses for weapons. Although they did not find anything, they shot three men and arrested 15 people. A second raid followed on August 11, during which 76 people were arrested. 71 men were deported to Neuengamme concentration camp in September 1944 . Only eight of them survived the end of the war.

Web links

Commons : Tielt-Winge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katharina Hertz-Eichenrode: 'Retaliation actions' in Murat, Meensel-Kiezegem and Putten. In: Oliver von Wrochem (Ed.): Repressalien und Terror. Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78721-7 , pp. 173-190, especially pp. 178f.