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In Flanders Fields Museum in the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)

In Flanders Fields Museum in the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)

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In Flanders Fields Museum in the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)

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Location: Ypres, Ieper, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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Glen Sobel

September 1, 2024

The Flanders Fields Museum is located in the Lakkenhalle on the Grote Markt
Depending on your interests, you can expect to spend several hours visiting the museum.
Brief history of the building: The Cloth Hall (Grand Place) is one of the largest civil buildings in the Gothic style in Europe.
The original Cloth Hall was built between 1200 and 1304.
The belfry is 70 m high and was built between 1200 and 1230 as a symbol of the power of the citizenry. From the late 12th century until 1817, real live cats were thrown out of the belfry. These have been stuffed cats since 1955.
The Cloth Halls used to serve as a trading place for fabrics. The cloth was sold in every door at the bottom of the belfry. Ypres was very famous in the Middle Ages for the good quality of its fabrics.
The building was completely destroyed in World War I and later rebuilt. The restored Cloth Hall was completed in 1967. The architects decided to reconstruct the pre-war situation as faithfully as possible. The original stones can still be seen at the foot of the Cloth Hall; these are the largest. The higher up you go, the smaller the stones become.

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Sebastian Kowalke

August 28, 2020

The “In Flanders Fields Museum” has been located in the restored Cloth Hall in the city of Ypres since 1998. The museum is impressively dedicated to the First World War in Belgium and Flanders, which raged here like in few other places despite Belgium's neutrality. The name of the museum comes from the famous poem by the Canadian soldier John McRae, who himself had to fight in the fields of Flanders.

You can find all information about the museum here: flandersfields.be/de/tun/flanders-fields-museum

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Steve

April 20, 2020

Museum in the heart of Ypres.

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Location: Ypres, Ieper, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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In Flanders Fields Museum in the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)

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