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Rijselpoort (Lille Gate)

Rijselpoort (Lille Gate)

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Rijselpoort (Lille Gate)

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

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Viviane

December 3, 2023

The Lille Gate is a city gate in the Belgian city of Ypres. The gate is located in the south of the city center, on the road to Lille. The Lille Gate is the oldest and only preserved city gate from the fourteenth century that connects two preserved parts of the Ypres fortresses.
The Lille Gate, formerly called the Mesen Gate, dates from the Burgundian period (14th century) and is finished with Burgundian towers. The gate has been renovated several times. In the 17th century, Vauban had the tower lowered and the main wall widened. After destruction in the First World War, the gate was rebuilt.
The Rijselpoort separates the Majoorgracht from the Kasteelgracht, and is therefore a combination of a water and land gate. The entrance to the vaulted hall is on the left of the Lille Gate. To the right of the gate we find the lock room with the lock doors of the streams and settlement waters.
The Ieperlee enters the city through this gate. The Ieperlee has a bed of approximately 2.5 meters deep and is not the feeding stream for the settlement canals.

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DirkWi

September 8, 2023

Old signposts to British cemeteries can still be found on the inner wall of the gate. It was one of the most important 'passages' to the front during the war and was used more than the Menin Gate, because this road could be better protected against enemy artillery.

Source: toerismeieper.be/rijselpoort

It is also the gate through which you can walk from the beautiful green fortifications of the city to the nature reserve De Verdronken Weide (which then flows into the domain around Zillebekevijver).

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Sarah

September 24, 2023

Originally this was the southern gateway to the city of Ypres. The actual city gate was demolished in the mid-nineteenth century, after Ypres was written off as a fortified city. On the site of the gate, a stylish bridge was built that connected the two fortress walls. During the First World War the bridge was almost completely destroyed. A stone bridge took its place, decorated with the city's coat of arms.
Source: erfgoedhaltes.be/erfgoedhalte/ieper-rijselsepoort

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