Mystery: This is how the city of Tilburg was created - near Tilburg

On April 17, the Lanciers Prize was awarded for the fifth time. This time the winner was Maarten van Riel. The three nominees for the Lanciers Prize, Theo van Etten, Thijs Kemmeren and Maarten van Riel presented their research to the audience that attended the award ceremony. The Lanciers Prize is awarded every two years to a researcher who has used sources from the Tilburg Regional Archives in a special way.

Someone is celebrating their birthday, hooray, hooray! You can see that, it's us... You read that right: Tilburg is celebrating its birthday! Our city is blowing out 216 candles. But the archives contain many older maps of the city. How does that work? That's how Tilburg came into being. If you take a walk through the city today, you might just come across a lot of flags. No, it's not King's Day yet. We are celebrating a completely different bir…