Theme Week Zeeland – Terneuzen
Wednesday, 24 February 2021 - 12:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Terneuzen is a city and
municipality in the southwestern
Netherlands , in the province of
Zeeland , in the middle of
Zeelandic Flanders . With over 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland.
First mentioned in 1325, Terneuzen was a strategically located port on the waterways to Ghent , in present-day Belgium . It received city rights in 1584. Tradition has it that Terneuzen was once the home of the legendary Flying Dutchman , Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was condemned to sail the seas forever, as described in the Frederick Marryat novel The Phantom Ship Richard Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman
Historical house, a natonal site © EWbiervliet/cc-by-sa-4.0
Nowadays the
Ghent–Terneuzen Canal is still an important shipping route. 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.
It 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the Dow Chemical plant is served by a freight only line to Ghent in Belgium (Terneuzen’s passenger rail service was withdrawn in 1951).
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