18 Sights in Tilburg, Netherlands (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Tilburg, Netherlands! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Tilburg. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Tilburg1. Oude Warande
The Oude Warande is an 18th-century park, located south of the Tilburg-Breda railway line, between Tilburg University station and the Reeshof district. The park was created in 1712 by order of William VIII of Hesse-Kassel and is one of the few intact star forests in the Netherlands.
2. Paleis-Raadhuis
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.
3. Draaiend huis
Rotating House is a work of art in Tilburg on the Hasselt roundabout. It is seen as one of the most remarkable realisations of roundabout art in the Netherlands. John Körmeling's artwork consists of a revolving house in the middle of the roundabout. The house rotates slowly. The house is 5 meters wide, 8.5 meters deep and 10 meters high.
4. Sint-Dionysius of Heikese Kerk
St. Dionysius Church is a Catholic church in Tilburg, the Netherlands, dedicated to Saint Dionysius of Paris. The church is popularly known as Heikese church in order to avoid confusion with a church of the same name in the district of 't Goirke. 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 the parish of The Good Shepherd.
5. Indië-monument
The Dutch East Indies Monument is a memorial in the Vrijheidspark in the Dutch city of Tilburg. It was made by architect and visual designer André M. Doevendans, himself a veteran of the Dutch East Indies, 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.
6. Wandelbos
The 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 was put into use in 1920. A second phase was completed in 1921 and 1922, but it was not fully completed until 1937. When it opened, it was given the name Stadswandelbos (City Walking Forest).
7. Goirkese Kerk
The Goirkese or H. Dionysius Church is a neo-Gothic church building in the Goirkestraat in Tilburg Oud-Noord. It is, after the Heikese church, the oldest church in Tilburg and the Netherlands' first neo-Gothic water state church. This church, although austere in appearance, has a relatively sumptuous interior.
8. Sint-Jozef of Heuvelse kerk
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.
9. Gerardus Majellakerk
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.
10. Hasseltse Kapel
The Hasseltse Chapel or Chapel Onze Lieve Vretitation 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.
11. Broekhovense Kerk
The Broekhoven Church is a church building in Tilburg that is located on the Broekhovenseweg. Until 2023, the church was part of the parish of The Good Shepherd, but was withdrawn from worship in that year.
12. Monument Koninklijke Nederlandse Brigade Prinses Irene
The Royal Dutch Brigade Princess Irene Monument or "The Standard Bearer" is a Dutch war memorial from 1955 in Tilburg. It commemorates the liberation of Tilburg and specifically the Prinses Irene Brigade that fought in the liberation of Tilburg on October 27, 1944.
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13. Süleymaniye-moskee
The Süleymaniye Mosque is a Turkish mosque in Tilburg that is part of the Islamic Foundation of the Netherlands. The building is located at Wandelboslaan 2, in the Het Zand neighborhood in Tilburg West.
14. Mariakerk
St. Mary's Church is a neo-Gothic church in the Heikant district of Tilburg, built in 1873 and dedicated to Mary Immaculate Conception. It is located at De Schans 121. Architect was J.C. van den Heuvel. Nowadays the church is used by the parish of Heikant-Quirijnstok.
15. Sint-Antonius van Padua of Korvelsekerk
The Korvelse church, officially the church of Saint Dionysius and Anthony of Padua, is a church building at Korvelplein 182 in Tilburg. It is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua and to the patron saint of Tilburg, Dionysius of Paris. The church is now part of the Parish Association South.
16. Sint-Lucaskerk
St. Luke's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church on the Lage Witsiebaan in the Tilburg district of Het Zand. The building was designed in 1964 by architect Jules Nouwens in a sober modernist style. The building was completed in 1965.
17. Slavernijmonument
The Slavery Monument in the Dutch city of Tilburg is a reminder of the Dutch slavery past. The sculpture, a girl sitting on 'broken chains', was designed by artist duo Dedden & Keizer. It was unveiled on July 1, 2022 at Burgemeester Stekelenburgplein in the Tilburg Spoorzone.
18. Koning Willem II
The Willem II monument on the Heuvel in Tilburg represents King William 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.
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