Tiel

Tiel grew as a market and port among the waterways of the Rhine delta, near the Waal and Linge. In 896 the Frankish king Zwentibold granted it the right to collect tolls, and in the tenth and eleventh centuries its merchants traded with counterparts in England and Germany. Chartered as a town around 1200, Tiel later joined the Hanseatic League. Saint Martin's Church and the water gate recall a town whose fortunes were bound to its river trade.