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Tongelreep
The Tongelreep is a small tributary of the Dommel that flows through Belgium and the Netherlands. It begins in Belgium near Neerpelt (where the stream is called the Warmbeek) and runs into the Dommel in Eindhoven by way of Valkenswaard and Aalst. The stream runs near the Achel Abbey, the Leenderbos, the Valkenhorst estates and the Genneper Parken park area.
The Tongelreep has always remained a relatively naturally flowing, clear river with natural interaction between water and landscape; this despite the fact that man has tried to alter the river bed since the Middle Ages, the stretch to the west of the current Leenderbos was canaled in 1890 in order to create a series of fishing ponds and the stretch to the south of that was canaled by the Aachen Abbey monks before that. The natural character of the southern Tongelreep has been returning since 1989, when the Aachen Abbey agricultural activities were ceased and the lands were sold to environmental groups, who are restoring the natural flow of the river. The grassy lands of the Warmbeek valleys are also being restored.
== Etymology (''The country between the mountains'') ==
The word Tongelreep derives from the old regional words ''tonge'' and ''reep''. ''Tonge'' is an older, local word for a sandy plain or hill in a raised bog; a ''reep'' is a Dutch word (still in use today) which means ''strip'' (in this case a strip of land). ''Tongelreep'' therefore means "a strip of land with sandy hills" (or more romantically "country between mountains"), which is correct: there are a number of sandy hills along the run of the river, including the Stepkesberg, the Wolfsberg and the Zeelberg (which is now part of Valkenswaard).
The land formations of the region most likely also explain why the Tongelreep is called the Tongelreep and not just the Warmbeek. When the region was first settled, the land south of the Zeelberg was very rugged and impassable. Since the region was not tractable to extensive exploration, the early settlers probably never realized that the Tongelreep was a continuation of the Warmbeek. This theory is reinforced by early maps of the region, which show varying sources for the Tongelreep but do not suggest any link to the Belgian river.
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