The Zeeland Bridge (1965, initially the Oosterschelde Bridge) is a road bridge over the Oosterschelde estuary with a total length of 5022 metres. It links Noord-Beveland and Schouwen-Duiveland, thus providing a shorter connection to the towns of Middelburg and Goes on the southern side, and Zierikzee and Bruinisse on the northern side. The bridge is part of the provincial road N256.
The bridge was built on the initiative of the Province of Zeeland. The roads over the new delta dams which were constructed as part of the Delta Works opened up Zeeland to traffic, but the Oosterschelde remained an obstacle. The existing provincial ferry connection between Zierikzee on Schouwen-Duiveland and Kats on Noord-Beveland could no longer cope with the volume of traffic. And according to the original plans, the Oosterschelde would not be dammed up until 1978, which would eventually take until 1986 in the form of the Oosterscheldekering. The Province of Zeeland therefore decided to build a bridge between Zierikzee and Colijnsplaat in order to have an uninterrupted north-south connection before then. The province entrusted the construction and operation to an independent company, the NV Provinciale Zeeuwse Brug Maatschappij, which was wholly owned by the province.
Sometime in 1980 Jan bought his first SLR camera and since that time a camera has always been at his fingertips. His varied work ranges from snapshots of people in his immediate surroundings to landscape, macro and bird photography. He is also the regular photographer of his wife's ballet.. Read more…