Sint-Kruis-Winkel

The towns of our Meetjesland in Flanders, Belgium

Sint-Kruis-Winkel

In another age Sint-Kruis-Winkel (Kruis = cross) was a quiet farming town east of the "Sassche Canal". That Sassche Canal in recent times became the huge Ghent-Terneuzen Canal for sea faring ships. It goes right through the heart of Zelzate which is completely cut in two.

The Holy Cross Church of St.-Kruis-Winkel

A tunnel was then built to alleviate the lot of the long suffering motorists. When that canal then attracted all kinds of industrial enterprises, great swathes of farming land on both sides were sacrificed and replaced with industrial zones.

In the Middle Ages St.-Kruis-Winkel belonged to the Assenede Corporation, like Assenede itself, Zelzate, Ertvelde, Wachtebeke and Kluizen. The Canal separated St.-Kruis-Winkel from Assenede and from the rest of the former Corporation. Administratively they remained with Assenede but they were separate juridically.

In 1964 St Kruis-Winkel which had a population of 1800 was absorbed into the city of Ghent.

More pictures from St.-Kruis-Winkel

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