14 Sights in Tilburg, Netherlands (with Map and Images)

The Oude Warande is an 18th-century park, located south of Spoorlijn Tilburg-Breda, between Tilburg University and Reeshof Station. The park was constructed in 1712 on behalf of William VIII van Hessen-Kassel and is one of the few intact star forests in the Netherlands. A star forest is so called because a number of avenues, usually six or eight, walk to the corners and the outer edges from a central point. The Oude Warande has eight sterlanes, and four avenues run along the edges that enclose a square of about seventy hectares. The park is laid out in baroque style, where the designs of landscape architect André Le Nôtre served as an example. This is reflected in the symmetrical, rectangular avenue pattern from a small central sculpture. In the 1980s, only the main lines of this setup could still be seen. This was followed by an almost twenty -year renovation that was completed in 2008. The old avenues were restored, sick trees were cleared, deepened the sailed pond and 'wild' paths removed.

Wikipedia: Oude Warande (NL)

Het Wandelbos is a city park in Tilburg West. It was designed in or before 1917 by the well-known landscape architect Leonard Springer who also designed the Wilhelminapark (1895) and the Leijpark in Tilburg. It was carried out as a job creation project under the direction of the Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij and put into use in 1920. In 1921 and 1922 a second phase was realized, but it was not fully finished until 1937. At the opening it was given the name Stadswandelbos.

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The Sint-Dionysiuskerk is a Catholic church in Tilburg, dedicated to Saint Dionysius of Paris. The church is popularly known as Heikese Church to prevent confusion with a church of the same name in the 't Goirke district. The name Heike refers to the Herdgang 't Heike south of the center, where there was a barn church that was the predecessor of the current church as a parish church. The current church building dates from 1838 and is part of Parish The Good Shepherd.

Wikipedia: Heikese kerk (NL)

The City Hall of Tilburg or Palace-Council House is a former royal palace and presently a part of Tilburg city hall in the Netherlands. Construction of the palace was commissioned by King William II of the Netherlands, who placed the cornerstone on 13 August 1847. The king wanted to have a country residence in Tilburg. He never lived in the palace as he died on 17 March 1849, just 22 days before completion of the palace.

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Jummer surgeons is the nickname that residents of Tilburg traditionally received from residents from surrounding places. During carnival, the Tilburgers also call themselves jugees or jars, and the city is called Kruikenstad. In the old days, Tilburg had many textile factories. Tilburg was also called "De Wolstad". The inhabitants saved urine in jugs. This was bought to be used later to wash the wool.

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The Indies Monument is a memorial in the Freedom Park in the Dutch city of Tilburg. It was made by architect and visual designer André M. Doevendans, himself also an Indies veteran, as a memorial to the sixty Tilburg soldiers who died in the East Dutch East Indies between 1945 and 1962. It was unveiled on 19 May 2001 by Mrs M. Spoor, widow of General Simon Spoor.

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Revolving House is a work of art in Tilburg on the Hasselt roundabout. It is seen as one of the most remarkable realizations of roundabout art in the Netherlands. John Körmeling's artwork consists of a revolving house in the middle of the roundabout. The house turns around slowly. The house is 5 meters wide, 8.5 meters deep and 10 meters high.

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The Heuvelse kerk is a neo-Gothic Catholic church in the center of the Dutch city Tilburg. Dedicated to Saint Joseph, it is one of two major Catholic churches in the city center together with the Heikese kerk. It is located along the square Heuvel, after which it is named. A 1921 statue of the Sacred Heart is located in front of the building.

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The Korvelse Church, officially the Sint Dionysius and Antonius of Paduakerk, is a church building at Korvelplein 182 in Tilburg. She is dedicated to Saint Antonius of Padua and to the patron saint of Tilburg, Dyonisius of Paris. The church is nowadays under the Zuid parishfire.

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The Royal Dutch Brigade Princess Irene or "The standard bearer" monument is a Dutch war memorial from 1955 in Tilburg. It commemorates the liberation of Tilburg and specifically the Princess Irene Brigade who fought in the liberation of Tilburg on October 27, 1944.

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The Gerardus Majellakerk is a Roman Catholic church located in southern Tilburg along the Wassenaerlaan. It is dedicated to Gerard Majella, who became a saint in 1904, and has been part of the parish De Goede Herder since its inception in 2012.

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The Sint-Lucaskerk is a Roman Catholic parish church on the Lage Witsiebaan in the Tilburg district Het Zand. The building was designed in 1964 by architect Jules Nouwens in a sober modernist style. The building was ready in 1965.

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The Hasseltse Chapel or Chapel Onze Lieve Vrijitatie is a chapel in the Tilburg neighborhood and former Herdgang Hasselt, which dates from something before 1536. The chapel is therefore the oldest religious monument in Tilburg.

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The Willem II monument on the Hill in Tilburg represents King Willem II of the Netherlands. It was unveiled in The Hague in 1854, but sold in 1924 and transferred to Tilburg, where Willem lived part of his life.

Wikipedia: Standbeeld op de Heuvel (NL)