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Sugar Factory Zeeland
Sugar Factory Zeeland was a beet sugar factory in Bergen op Zoom, a city and municipality in the North Brabant province in the Southwestern Netherlands. It got its peculiar name when it was sold to the ''Coöperatieve Beetwortelsuikerfabriek Zeeland'', a cooperative of sugar beet farmers from neighboring Zeeland province. The factory was in operation from 1863 to 1929. Some of the imposing factory buildings remain and are protected as industrial heritage. In 2012 a reconstruction started to change the old buildings to a large shopping mall called ''De Zeeland''. Sugar factory of F.G Wittouck (1863) By 1863 the Wittouck family owned a number of sugar factories in Belgium. Félix-Guillaume Wittouck (1812-1898) also wanted to establish a beet sugar factory in the Netherlands. In late December 1862, the municipality of Goes declined his request from June that year, to get a lease on city terrains as a location for a sugar factory. The grounds to refuse this focused on the scarcity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen Op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the Brabantian dialect, local dialect) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in southwestern Netherlands. It is located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, at the provincial border with Zeeland. In 2025, the municipality had a population of 70,216. Etymology The city was built on a site where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil pushed against the marine clay, accumulating and forming hills over several centuries. People called those hills the ''Brabantse Wal'', literally meaning "ramparts of Brabant". ''Zoom'' refers to the border of these ramparts and ''bergen'' in Dutch means mountains or hills. The name has nothing to do with the little channel, the Zoom, which was later built through Bergen op Zoom. History Bergen op Zoom was granted City rights in the Low Countries, city status probably in 1212. In 128 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wester Suikerraffinaderij
The Wester Suikerraffinaderij or Wester Sugar Refinery, was a major sugar refinery in Amsterdam founded by the company Wester Suiker-Raffinaderij N.V. The sugar refinery became part of the Centrale Suiker Maatschappij (CSM) in 1919 and was closed down in 1965. The public company Wester Suikerraffinaderij N.V., which held shares in CSM, survived into the 1990s. History Foundation of Wester Suiker-Raffinaderij N.V. The Wester Suikerraffinaderij was founded in the long tradition of Amsterdam as a world center for refining sugar. The plans were finalized in March 1882. They put an end to plans for founding a new factory on the grounds of the Internationale Suikerraffinaderij. Instead, the founders opted for a location on a terrain that they bought from the municipality at about the same time. In March 1882 the contract for founding the company N.V. Wester Suiker-Raffinaderij was signed. The share capital was to be 800,000 guilders in 1,000 guilder shares. The first directors w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
