Terneuzen

Terneuzen is a town and municipality inside the southwestern Netherlands, inside the province of Zeeland, inside the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With over 55,000 population, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland. First mentioned in 1325, Terneuzen turned into a strategically placed port at the waterways to Ghent, in gift-day Belgium. It obtained city rights in 1584. Tradition has it that Terneuzen become as soon as the home of the mythical Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and become condemned to sail the seas for all time, as described inside the Frederick Marryat novel The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman.

Before 1877, the metropolis was frequently called Neuzen. The city of Terneuzen is placed at the southern shore of the Western Scheldt estuary. Nowadays the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal continues to be an vital shipping path. The port of Terneuzen is the 1/3 biggest in the Netherlands, after those of Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The largest plant of Dow Chemical Company out of doors of the US is placed at Terneuzen, on the west aspect of the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal.