A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.
Delve into the poignant history of the Great War through the lens of Flanders' battlefields and memorials. This page offers a curated collection of sacred sites of World War I in Flanders. Some of these landmarks have been declared Unesco World Heritage sites in 2023.
A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.
In 1905, a brickworks arose in Rampskapelle near the Belgian coastal town Nieuwpoort. Four years later, it became the property of Céramiques et Briqueteries Mécaniques du Littoral.
During the First World War, the German army erected a high-voltage barrier of over three hundred kilometres from Knokke to the Three-Country Point near Aachen: the Wire of Death.
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