Tuil is a village in the
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province of
Gelderland
Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...
. It is a part of the municipality of
West Betuwe
West Betuwe is a municipality in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Gelderland.
West Betuwe had 51.948 inhabitants on 1 January 2022.
The municipality was formed on January 1, 2019, by the merger of the municipalities Geldermalsen, Neerijnen, Li ...
, and lies about 14 km west of the town
Tiel
Tiel () is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands. The town is enclosed by the Waal river and the Linge river to the South and the North, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to the East. Tiel comprises the population centres Kapel- ...
.
Jan Willem Boellaard has been Lord of Tuil since 1956.
History
The area now encompassing the village of Tuil was inhabited in Roman times by the
Batavians
The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD. The name is also applied to several milit ...
, but by about 800 AD
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tribes had occupied the site. The
River Waal
The Waal (Dutch name, ) is the main distributary branch of the river Rhine flowing approximately through the Netherlands. It is the major waterway connecting the port of Rotterdam to Germany. Before it reaches Rotterdam, it joins with the Afg ...
in this area originally meandered to the north of the present river's course, but spontaneously straightened in the 13th century due to increased river flow, leaving the village streets running at right angles to the river. By the 19th century, after repeated dike breaks at Tuil, a new dike was built along the present-day route that severely truncated the village.
The first known mentions of Tuil appear in feudal documents of 963 AD and 1031 AD. In the 14th century, four members of the family
Felder lived near the village of Tuil, and three others to the northern farmland, along the River Linge. This establishes the village of as the place of origin for the family name
Felder.
[ Robert Lange and Walter Groenendijk, pg. 78 ]
Gallery
File:Tuil NH Kerk (2).jpg, Dutch Reformed church
File:Tuil Graaf Reinaldweg 28.jpg, House in Tuil
File:Tuil Kortestraat 1.jpg, House in Tuil
File:Tuil GM Graaf Reinaldweg 22.jpg, Villa in Tuil
References
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Populated places in Gelderland
West Betuwe