Welcome

Welcome to the non-official website of Spijkenisse. Spijkenisse is a little town in the Netherlands (country in Europe, neighbour country of England, Germany and Belgium), at a distance of 15 km from Rotterdam, near the largest harbour of the World. This site is a digital meeting place for the citizens of Spijkenisse and all other people who want to know something more about our town. If you have questions about Spijkenisse or suggestions for our site, please sign our guestbook !

Click here to see the street plan of Spijkenisse.

Sister towns

Spijkeniss Online is searching for other non-official sites of towns which have about the same size as Spijkenisse (between 50.000 and 100.000 citizens). If you also have a non-official site of your own town and you like to put a link and some information on our site, please send us an e-mail with your link and a short discription of your town.

our royal arms

our flag

Download Matrix

Are you often searching for freeware, drivers, plugins, MP3 files or CD covers ? Try our download matrix to help you with your search.

Kids Corner

Try our Kids Corner with the moving kids links and the kids colour pictures.

Other options

Our dutch site is much bigger and contains for example a chatroom, a linkpage, an overview of the history of Spijkenisse, a newspage, etc.
Click here to start our dutch site.

   Please try our games:

Phong: a simple tennis game that was very popular at the begin period of the "home computer".
Tetris: the game with the falling bricks.
Pacman: a difficult version of this populair game.

Images of old Spijkenisse

Boezem
Town centre - view from church tower

Harbour quay about 1935
Hekelingen - Achterweg

Hekelingen - Den Hoek

Hekelingen - Dorpsgezicht
Hekelingen - Dorpsstraat
Hekelingen - Dorpsstraat 1925
Hekelingen - former town hall
Hekelingen - Oosteinde

Hekelingen - school
Hekelingen - post office
Nieuwstraat

Noordeinde - view from the windmill (years 20)
Noordeinde - windmill
Oude Maas - frozen in the winter of 1929
Spijkenisse - air picture of 1958
Bridge - building at the beginning of the 20th century
Brigde - till 1933 fitted with a turning part
Spui

Old tram stop at Spijkenisse (1928)
Voorstraat
Voorstraat - first use of electricity (1920)
Voorweg
Voorweg (1912)
Voorweg with transformstation (before 1930, now called Rozenlaan)

Images of Spijkenisse today

Brabantflat - district Groenewoud
Bidge between Hoogvliet and Spijkenisse
Bridge - old and new
Towncentre - central park and town hall
Town hall - "marriage entrance"
Hartelbridge - flood barrier
Hartel - crossing
Old Church - view from the Heulbrugstraat
Modern Art in Spijkenisse district North
Old talking men - sculpture in towncentre
Central subway stationl and neighbourhood
Subway station "Heemraadlaan"
Windmill "Nooitgedacht"
District Schenkel -  the "Maasboulevard"
Shopping centre "Kopspijker"
Shopping centre "Nieuwstraat"
Shopping centre "Stadshuispassage"

Our URL

The URL of this site is: http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/Spijkenisse/, but you can also use our "easy to remember redirect link": http://go.to/spijkenisseonline.