Beatrix Canal apparent to the Dutch throne, Princess Beatrix. Beatrix Canal The Beatrix Canal (Dutch: "Beatrixkanaal") is an 8.4 km long canal in the southern Netherlands. It was constructed to provide the city of Eindhoven with access to the Wilhelmina Canal. In order to be able to regulate the level of the Gender and Dommel streams, which regularly threatened to flood Eindhoven's inner city, an additional Discharge Canal ("Afwateringskanaal"), which is not open to navigation, was dug to connect the Beatrix Canal and the Dommel stream. Into this branch, the Gender now discharges. Upon completion, the canal was named in honour of
Johanna Beatrix of Dietrichstein aged 51. Johanna Beatrix of Dietrichstein Countess Johanna Beatrix von Dietrichstein (1625 – 26 March 1676), was a German noblewoman, by birth a member of the princely Dietrichstein family and by marriage Princess of Liechtenstein. She was the fifth child and fourth (but third surviving) daughter of Maximilian, 2nd Prince von Dietrichstein zu Nikolsburg, and his first wife Princess Anna Maria, a daughter of Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf. On 4 August 1644 Johanna Beatrix married Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (11 April 1611 – 5 April 1684). They had eleven children: Johanna Beatrix died