Moerdijk ( Dutch pronunciation: [muːrˈdɛik] ) is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands , in the province of North Brabant .
7-402: The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 following the merger of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen , Klundert , Standdaarbuiten , Willemstad , and Zevenbergen . At that time the new municipality was called Zevenbergen. The name changed to Moerdijk on 1 April 1998. [REDACTED] Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Moerdijk, June 2015 The village of Moerdijk
14-545: A train station with connections to Dordrecht and Roosendaal . Railway Dordrecht to Roosendaal (part of line 11), with stations and official station abbreviations: Close to Hollands Diep, the area is now used for industrial movements by water, with great inland access as well the access into the North Sea, transport company Van der Vlist have their own port located in the area, and many other transport companies have nearby offices. This North Brabant location article
21-550: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fijnaart en Heijningen Fijnaart en Heijningen is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant . It covered the villages of Fijnaart and Heijningen . Fijnaart en Heijningen was a separate municipality until 1997, when it was merged with Zevenbergen . 51°38′17″N 4°28′13″E / 51.63805°N 4.470406°E / 51.63805; 4.470406 This North Brabant location article
28-517: Is one of the smaller villages of the municipality. Population as of 2002 is 1,205. Moerdijk is however a well-known name in the Netherlands, because of the large Moerdijk industrial area, with a large power plant, and because of the well-known Moerdijk bridges (highway and railway bridges) across the Hollands Diep . This was the last bridge available for the retreat from the vital Scheldt Estuary of
35-634: The north of Moerdijk. Above the Moerdijk (meaning "north of Moerdijk") is used as an expression in Belgium and the southern parts of the Netherlands to mean "in the Netherlands" or "in Holland". Below the Moerdijk (meaning "south of Moerdijk" or "below the major rivers") is also a Dutch expression for the Catholic provinces North Brabant and Limburg. This expression is used particularly around Mardi Gras in relation to
42-470: The rapidly collapsing German defences near Antwerp in World War II. (Noteworthy as well, the Moerdijk bridges were one of the first targets of guided, or "smart bombs"- by American heavy bombers in late 1944.) Moerdijk made headlines on 5 January 2011 because of a large fire at Chemie-Pack (a firm processing numerous chemicals) causing a large cloud of toxic smoke to blow over the surrounding area, mostly to
49-416: The region's traditional carnival culture, which (with a few local exceptions) does not exist north of the major rivers. Over de Moerdijk (meaning "across the Moerdijk") is used by either party to mean the other one. Zevenbergen is the largest town of the municipality (population as of 2002: 14,006). It is located about 10 km northwest of Breda . It received city rights in 1427. Zevenbergen has
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