Terneuzen
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Terneuzen | |
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 Terneuzen city hall | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
.svg) Location in Zeeland | |
| Coordinates: 51°20′N 3°50′E / 51.333°N 3.833°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Zeeland |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Franc Weerwind (D66) |
| Area | |
• Total | 317.76 km2 (122.69 sq mi) |
| • Land | 250.38 km2 (96.67 sq mi) |
| • Water | 67.38 km2 (26.02 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 4 m (13 ft) |
| Population (January 2021)[4] | |
• Total | 54,463 |
| • Density | 218/km2 (560/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Terneuzenaar |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | Part of 4500 range |
| Area code | 0115 |
| Website | www |
Terneuzen (Dutch pronunciation: [tərˈnøːzə(n)] ⓘ) is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With almost 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland.[5]
History
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Its first known mention as ter Nose stems from 1325,[6] and Terneuzen was a strategically located port on the waterways to Ghent, in present-day Belgium.
It received provisional city rights in 1584, which were confirmed two years later.[7]
Terneuzen is often cited as the place of residency of Willem van der Decken, the captain of the legendary ghost ship from the story of the Flying Dutchman. While early versions most referred to Amsterdam, Frederick Marryat first mentioned Terneuzen as the place of residence in his 1839 novel The Phantom Ship.[8]
Before 1877, the city was often called Neuzen.
The municipality of Terneuzen absorbed the neighbouring municipalities of Biervliet, Hoek and Zaamslag on 1 April 1970 and the municipalities of Axel and Sas van Gent in 2003.[9]
Geography
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The city of Terneuzen is located on the southern shore of the Western Scheldt estuary.
The municipality of Terneuzen consists of the following population centres:[10]
Economy
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The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal is still an important shipping route connecting the Port of Ghent.[11] The port of Terneuzen is the third-largest in the Netherlands, after those of Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The largest plant of Dow Chemical Company outside of the United States is located at Terneuzen, on the west side of the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal.
Transport
[edit]Terneuzen can be reached from the rest of the Netherlands via the Western Scheldt Tunnel, which opened in March 2003. Terneuzen is not linked to the rest of the Netherlands by rail, although the Dow Chemical plant is served by a freight-only line to Ghent in Belgium (Terneuzen's passenger rail service was withdrawn in 1951).
Notable residents
[edit]- Lupus Hellinck (1493 or 1494 – 1541) a Flemish composer of the Renaissance
- Sir Bernard de Gomme (1620–1685) a Dutch military engineer
- Pieter Paulus (1753–1796) a Dutch jurist, fiscal (prosecutor) of the Admiralty of the Maze and politician
- Francien de Zeeuw (1922–2015) a Dutch resistance fighter during WWII and the first female member of the Dutch armed forces
- Lodewijk van den Berg (1932–2022) astronaut on a Challenger Space Shuttle mission
- Jacques Hamelink (born 1939 in Driewegen) a Dutch poet, novelist and literary critic
- Klaas de Vries (born 1944) a Dutch composer, co-founded the Rotterdam School of music
- Eric van Damme (born 1956) a Dutch economist
- Jos de Putter (born 1959) a Dutch film director, film critic and screenwriter[12]
- Mark Janse (born 1959 in Sas van Gent) research professor in Asia Minor and Ancient Greek at Ghent University
- Erik de Bruyn (born 1962) film director and actor[13]
- Peter van Dommelen (born 1966) a Dutch archaeologist and academic
- Sandra Roelofs (born 1968) former first lady of Georgia
Twin towns
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Franc Weerwind" (in Dutch). Municipality of Terneuzen. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ↑ "Postcodetool for 4531GZ". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ↑ "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ↑ "Netherland Statistics". statline. 28 December 2017.
- ↑ Wesseling 1958, p. 7.
- ↑ Bareman, Deij & Oggel 2002, p. 32.
- ↑ Andeweg 2015, pp. 37–38.
- ↑ Bareman, Deij & Oggel 2002, p. 7.
- ↑ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020".
- ↑ www.binnenvaart.be Archived 4 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ IMDb Database retrieved 3 August 2019
- ↑ IMDb Database retrieved 3 August 2019
Books
[edit]- Andeweg, Agnes (April 2015). De Vliegende Hollander en Terneuzen: Van internationaal symbool tot lokale legende [The Flying Dutchman and Terneuzen: From international symbol to local legend] (in Dutch). Vlissingen: Den Boer | De Ruiter. ISBN 978-90-79875-66-5.
- Bareman, Wout; Deij, Frank; Oggel, Peter (December 2002). Terneuzen: Van herindeling tot herindeling | 1970–2003 [Terneuzen: From one reorganisation to the next | 1970–2003] (in Dutch). Municipality of Terneuzen. ISBN 90-9016421-9.
- Wesseling, J. (March 1958). De geschiedenis van Terneuzen [The history of Terneuzen] (in Dutch) (2nd ed.). Terneuzen: P.J. van de Sande.
External links
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Terneuzen travel guide from Wikivoyage
Media related to Terneuzen at Wikimedia Commons- Official website (in Dutch)
- Port of Terneuzen
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