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19-598: The village was first mentioned in 380 as Deusone, and relates to the Dieze River. The etymology is unclear. Diessen developed in the Early Middle Ages around the Reusel stream. The St Willibrordus church, with a choir from the early-15th century, had a nave from around 1450. The tower was probably built in 1527. The church was restored between 1970 and 1973, and some of the 19th century modifications have been undone. Diessen

38-538: A container terminal would be viable in 's-Hertogenbosch, because it was so close to the port of Rotterdam. Heineken was very interested, because it exported containers with bottled beer. It wanted to fill these containers at the brewery, instead of at Rotterdam or Antwerp. It was one of the partners that succeeded in establishing the Bossche Container Terminal (BCT) in December 1995. The container terminal became

57-500: A success, and led to the expansion of other logistics companies in the harbor. Later competing projects were set up in Veghel and Waalwijk. A group of related activities that persists in the harbor has to do with the transport of raw materials for construction. E.g. the production of concrete and the transport of asphalt and gravel . Other companies are active in the transport of fodder , and in waste disposal. The village of Engelen at

76-634: Is a set of standards for interoperability of large navigable waterways forming part of the Trans-European Inland Waterway network within Continental Europe and Russia. It was created by the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT; French : Conférence européenne des ministres des Transports , CEMT ) in 1992, hence the range of dimensions are also referred to as CEMT Class I–VII . The size for each waterway

95-520: Is limited by the dimensions of the structures including the locks and boat lifts on the route. Class I corresponds to the historical Freycinet gauge decreed in France during 1879. The larger river classification sizes are focused on the carriage of intermodal containers in convoys of barges propelled by a push-tug . Most of the canals of the United Kingdom have smaller locks and would fall below

114-654: The Meuse ( Maas ). It is formed by the confluence of the rivers Aa and Dommel in 's-Hertogenbosch . The part of the Dieze in the centre of 's-Hertogenbosch is called Binnendieze , a partly covered network of canals. The Dieze flows into the Meuse near Hedel . Of the two rivers that form the Dieze, the Dommel is the main river, and the Aa is her tributary. It is remarkable that after this confluence,

133-483: The Zuid-Willemsvaart was dug between 's-Hertogenbosch and Maastricht. It started a new chapter for the Dieze, which now gave access to an inland waterway stretching to Maastricht and Liège. In the nineteenth century regular service by steam (paddle) ships was set up between 's-Hertogenbosch and Rotterdam. These steamships required more space on the water surface. The city, therefore, began to press for improvements to

152-588: The Dieze. From 1897-1902 the Dieze Canal was dug. In the twentieth century, the Dieze was changed to keep up with the ever-increasing size of ships. However, the passage of the Zuid-Willemsvaart through the city center of 's-Hertogenbosch became ever more troublesome, and could not be widened to serve the bigger ships. Therefore the Máxima Canal was dug east of 's-Hertogenbosch, creating a new connection between

171-508: The Heineken company established one of her two Dutch breweries on this terrain. Like most inland harbors, 's-Hertogenbosch harbor steadily lost terrain to road transport after world war II. Heineken however, has a strategic (cost) interest in being able to use transport over water. In 's-Hertogenbosch the brewery uses e.g. 100,000 tons of malt each year, which all arrives by ship. When containers came in general use, there were doubts about whether

190-459: The Zuid-Willemsvaart and the Meuse. After the opening of the Maximakanaal in December 2014, the passage of the Zuid-Willemsvaart through the city was closed to commercial shipping. It could have spelled the end of the 's-Hertogenbosch harbor, but a new future was created by focusing on container transport. The Dieze now consists of the river Dieze and the Dieze Canal. Ships use the river Dieze from

209-524: The commercial harbor of 's-Hertogenbosch till Engelen. From Engelen to the Meuse, ships use the Engelen Canal. The whole is now a CEMT class IV waterway. Maximum draft for ships on the canal is 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in). Nowadays, the commercial harbor of 's-Hertogenobosch is situated on the Dieze, a bit west of the city center. It was founded in the mid 1920s as part of an industrial area, and used for transporting all kinds of bulk products. In 1955

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228-460: The fortress, and a branch that turns left, called Oude Dieze ('old Dieze'), circumventing Crèvecoeur. At the start of the Oude Dieze there is a sluice that regulates the water level on the Dieze, and further upstream. The natural river therefore still processes more water than the wider Dieze canal. Classification of European Inland Waterways The Classification of European Inland Waterways

247-536: The last 5 km of the 125-km stream bed of the Dommel is named 'Dieze'. This has historic reasons. The name 'Dieze' used to refer to a river running from Oisterwijk to the Meuse. It consisted of the Esschestroom , which now runs for only 7 km from Oisterwijk to Halder ; the Dommel from Halder to 's-Hertogenbosch; the Binnendieze and Aa in 's-Hertogenbosch, and the current Dieze. All of this (about 25 km)

266-429: The main stream bed of the Dommel was rerouted to the west of the city, creating a new confluence of the Dommel with a diversion of the Aa. From a local perspective, however, these artificial diversions joined the Dieze. which flowed from the city harbor of 's-Hertogenbosch to the Meuse. The river Dieze flows for 5 km from the city harbor of 's-Hertogenbosch to the Meuse. The Dieze and her predecessors have always been

285-422: The opening of the Maximakanaal in December 2014, the Dieze became less busy. The lock was transferred to the province of North Brabant , because it was no longer on a 'national' route. However, the Dieze canal is still important for shipping. After the Dieze canal has been split off from the Dieze at Engelen, the natural Dieze continues to the north. Before Crèvecoeur it splits in a branch that ran straight through

304-571: The route for commercial shipping of the city. In medieval times it probably gave direct access to the sea, because ships were very small. In 1587 the Dutch Republic built Fort Crèvecoeur to protect their shipping and to control shipping to 's-Hertogenbosch. By then shipping to and from 's-Hertogenbosch was local. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were regular connections from 's-Hertogenbosch to cities in Holland and Zeeland. In 1823-1826

323-486: The start of the Dieze Canal has a quay. Meerwijk Castle is situated opposite Engelen on the other shore of the Dieze. It is a manor built in Tudor Revival architecture style. The Dieze Canal runs from Engelen to the Meuse. The Dieze canal contains Engelen Lock , previously named Henriëttesluis. This lock had between 20,000-40,000 passages in 2008. Maximum size for ships that use the lock is 90 m long by 12 m beam. After

342-586: Was home to 1,003 people in 1840. Diessen was a separate municipality until 1997, when it was merged with Hilvarenbeek. Diessen is hypothesized to be the birthplace Deusone of the Gallic Emperor Postumus . This North Brabant location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dieze The Dieze is a short river in North Brabant , the Netherlands , tributary of

361-419: Was known as the Dieze, because the Dommel was considered to be her tributary. When the Dommel came to be considered the main river, the stretch of the Dieze between Oisterwijk and Halder was renamed Esschestroom, or Run. The stretch between Halder and 's-Hertogenbosch was renamed Dommel. Within the gates of 's-Hertogenbosch however, the Dommel retained the name 'Dieze', later changed to 'Binnendieze'. Still later

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