Tilburg

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Tilburg municipality
Flag of the Tilburg municipality
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Tilburg
coat of arms
province North Brabant North Brabant
mayor Theo Weterings ( VVD )
Seat of the municipality Tilburg
Area
 - land
 - water 		118.88  km 2
117.40 km 2
1.48 km 2
CBS code 0855
Residents 217,595 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 1830 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 51 ° 34 ′  N , 5 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′  N , 5 ° 4 ′  E
height 14  m NAP
Important traffic route A58 E312 A65 N65 N260 N261 N269 N630 N632
prefix 013
Postcodes 5011-5049
Website tilburg.nl
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Tilburg ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality in the Netherlands , province of Noord-Brabant . The municipality includes the city ​​of Tilburg and the villages of Udenhout and Berkel-Enschot. The total area of ​​the municipality is about 119 km². The population of the rapidly growing town was 217,595 on January 31, 2019. Audio file / audio sample

Location and culture

Tilburg is in the middle of the province, between Breda in the west and 's-Hertogenbosch and Eindhoven in the east. Cars , railways and canals for inland navigation lead from these cities to Tilburg.

Tilburg has a diverse industry, including chemicals, photo and office supplies (Fuji), printing plants and a large slaughterhouse . In the service sector, the headquarters of a bank and two large insurance companies (Interpolis, CZ Groep) should be mentioned. There are also many smaller companies of all kinds.

Tilburg has a university , important music - and several other universities of applied sciences .

Sports

The Tilburg Trappers are an ice hockey club that has been playing in the German Oberliga Nord since the 2015/16 season .

history

Tilburg emerged from around eight small villages at the latest in the 11th century , called "herdgangen" in the Brabant dialect . The old village centers can still be recognized in the names of neighborhoods such as de Heuvel, 't Heike, Korvel, Veldhoven, Broekhoven, Oerle, Hasselt and' t Goirke. It was not until 1809 that Tilburg was granted city rights by royal resolution.

Around 1600, the wool from the many sheep in the wide area began to be processed centrally in factories , and after 1850 in factories. In the early 20th century, there were numerous wool and textile factories in Tilburg, along with Enschede and Hengelo , the city was one of the most important locations in the Netherlands. For the production process in the textile industry , human urine was required from around 1600 to 1840 . The Tilburg workers had to keep the urine in clay jugs and take it to work. That brought the Tilburgers the nickname "Kruikenzeikers" ( Krugpisser ).

The Dutch King Wilhelm II held Tilburg in high esteem. He even made it a temporary residence by having a palace built here in 1847. The white building is now part of the town hall complex. In his honor, the local football club was renamed Willem II in 1897 ; its venue has been called the Koning Willem II Stadium since 2009 .

In the 20th century, other industries replaced the cigar and textile industries. In the 1980s, unemployment even exceeded 20%. The structural change then led to the city's ongoing growth. This went hand in hand with a change in the city administration, known as the “ Tilburg model ” in specialist circles: to run an administration like a company.

Economy and Infrastructure

Since 1993, Tilburg has built three high-rise buildings along the railway line to the west and east of the main station, which are viewed as skyscrapers on a Dutch scale : on the one hand, the headquarters of the insurance company Interpolis and the "Westpoint" residential tower (143 m high, briefly the tallest high-rise the Netherlands), on the other hand, the residential tower "De Stadsheer" completed the cityscape in 2006.

Since the 1960s, the city has made a name for itself as the "Heart of Brabant". With the reforms in the administration, the slogan changed to “Tilburg, modern industrial city”. The slogan now simply consists of a plain-colored square with a white “T” in the middle.

Tesla Motors - the world's largest automotive group that exclusively builds electric cars - has built a plant in Tilburg for the European market, in which the parts that are pre-produced in the USA are assembled.

A popular herbal liqueur is the Schrobbelèr made in Tilburg .

Attractions

  • Dutch Textile Museum (Nederlands Textielmuseum) with many preserved machines, an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Culture (ERIH)
  • Scryption Museum of Stationery, Typewriters and Office Equipment
  • De Pont Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst
  • Safari park Beekse Bergen, a few kilometers southeast in the neighboring municipality of Hilvarenbeek
  • Efteling amusement park north of the city
  • 013 , named after the telephone code for Tilburg, a center for music known throughout the Netherlands. Many well-known bands and artists like to perform here.
  • Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Koningshoeven , whose monks a. a. run a brewery ( La Trappe ).
  • Former home of the Weil family. The villa built by the architect Ad Grimmon is also called “t Witte Huis” in Tilburg and is considered to be “the purest example of new objectivity” in the city. The villa has been a national monument since 2002. Max Weil, the owner of the villa, managed the Dutch branch of Adler & Oppenheimer ; he and his wife fled to the United States in 1941.

gallery

  • Tilburg, modern high-rise

  • Tilburg, street

  • Tilburg, church

  • Udenhout, former town hall

  • Udenhout, church: Sint Lambertuskerk

  • Koningshoeven Abbey

Events

  • The international festival Incubate (before 2009 ZXZW ) takes place every September.
  • Every year in July the largest fair in the Netherlands takes place in Tilburg for about ten days .
  • In September the Tilburg Ten Miles will take place in the city center , a road race with international participation over ten English miles.
  • In April, the o. G. "013" and in the neighboring "Het Patronaat" the Roadburn Festival takes place every year.
  • Since 2019, on the last weekend in August or on the first weekend of September, the Redheads Day, previously located in Breda, has been taking place.

Town twinning

Tilburg lists seven twin cities :

city country Art
Changzhou China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China economically
Emfuleni South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa politically
Lublin PolandPoland Poland political, since 1996
Matagalpa NicaraguaNicaragua Nicaragua political, since 1988
Minamiashigara JapanJapan Japan economical, since 1989
Seed TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania politically
Subotica SerbiaSerbia Serbia unoccupied

sons and daughters of the town

The bands Krezip , Textures and VOF de Kunst also come from Tilburg .

Web links

Commons : Tilburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ^ Tesla Motors: About Tesla. Retrieved September 22, 2016 .
  3. ^ The Villa Weil in Tilburg
  4. ↑ Raadsvoorstel - Gemeente Tilburg. Retrieved October 22, 2015 .
  5. ^ Tilburg-Matagalpa (Dutch) . Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ 平 成 24 年 10 月 〜 12 月 - 南 足 柄 市. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .