In the 19th century, Appelterre became known as “the tobacco village”, at a time when there were no harmful effects of smoking. After the Second World War the cigarette replaced tobacco and now there is hardly a trace of the tobacco industry.

A statue (by Willy Ronsmans) reminds us of that past.

The village song also praises that village history, as evidenced by this stanza:
"We will win nice tobacco
fine leaves and such a beautiful color.
She brings prosperity to families
where it smokes,… of tobacco smell"

In the meantime, the people of 'Heritage Tobacco Planters' have again started planting tobacco plants every year around the monument on the village square and also along the Tabakslaan. In this way, tobacco history remains alive in the tobacco village of Ninove.

In November 2023 there was another exhibition in the church about its past as a tobacco village.

Sources:
nuus.be/2023/11/06/in-beeld-straffe-toebak-in-appelterre

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