Tielen
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Tielen is a small village in Belgium near Turnhout in the province of Antwerp.
With not more than 3600 inhabitants, it is a typical village in the Kempen.
Far from the industrialised world, it has just one factory. (Ijsboerke or translated 'Ice Farmer', which is the second biggest ice cream producer in Belgium).
The most famous inhabitant of Tielen was Flor Peeters (an important organist).
The village has a small center with a church and a beautiful town hall (nowadays the old town hall, since Tielen became a part of Kasterlee in 1976).
Other buildings in Tielen are the water mill and the castle (Tielenhof), which was the home of the lords of Tielen and its neighbouring village Gierle until the French revolution.
The largest part of the inhabitants are upper middle class, but through history, the largest part of the inhabitants were poor farmers.
The first years after the second world war, the British army had a military base in the village, in the surrounding villages people referred to Tielen as 'Little Britain'. This of course ended when the Belgian 3PARA took over the base.
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