ディクスムイデの洞窟・トップ4

1863年、コンinck・デ・メルケム男爵はブランカルトの邸宅を取得しました。そこに城が建てられ、イギリス式の城公園が整備されました。 コンinck・デ・メルケム男爵は1895年に亡くなり、妻が城を含む全財産を相続しました。 城は第一次世界大戦中にひどく損傷し、ファサードしか残っていませんでした。1922年に、より小さな規模で再建されました。城公園は元の状態には戻されませんでした。 第二次世界大戦中、城の屋根は破壊されました。2つの円形塔の円錐形の胸壁は復元されませんでした。夫の死後、所有者は城を再建し、1959年に息子のイニシアチブである「Volkshogeschool de Blankaart」に提供しました。 この邸宅は1978年に自然保護区に指定されました。

この公園を訪れたのは初めてでしたが、美しい自然にとても嬉しく驚きました。リラックスした午後の散歩に本当におすすめです！城も訪れてみてください。満足して歩き出すでしょう。鉄の盆地の美しい展示！

コーヒーを一杯飲むだけでも、ぜひ立ち寄ってみてください。この場所には、興味深い情報が載っているプランカードに関する情報があります。

自然の静けさ、短いが明確

The Blankaart is freely accessible from sunrise to sunset. The visitor centre (currently still in the castle, but will 'soon' move to a new building closer to the car park) is open at least every week from Wednesday to Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The castle's coach house has been the workshop or studio for Natuurpunt volunteers who are involved in nature management on the Blankaart for years. Natuurpunt was able to purchase that site in 2011. Natuurpunt volunteers provide permanent staff in the visitors' centre in the castle. They provide reception, provide information to visitors and run a small cafeteria. This year, work will start on a new studio and a new reception in the visitors' domain. Because it also became apparent that restoring the studio was not feasible, we decided with Natuurpunt to demolish the studio and build something new there with a dual function: studio and reception. After all, the accessibility of the current visitors' centre is literally insufficiently accessible: you have to overcome quite a few (fairly high) stairs. The new building in a wooden frame is very close to the car park, will only be on the ground floor and visitors will be guided from the car park past the reception. Source: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20231005_95097412

Although the fame of this place as "Peace Mill" refers to the First World War (a monument value that only acquired its current form in the summer of 2013), the history of the mill goes back to the third quarter of the 18th century. In 1766, a wooden post mill was built here. In 1879, the then owner replaced the wooden mill with the stone tower mill, supplemented a year later with a steam engine (in an outbuilding), so that milling could also take place when there was no wind. The current outbuilding dates from after WWI (1920).

The Vredesmolen (also "Old mill", "Van Couillie's mill" or "Shooted mill") is a former windmill in the Belgian village of Klerken (Houthulst). The former wooden grain and oil mill is located at the highest point of the village (43 meters) and was therefore used as a lookout post by the Germans during the First World War. During the final offensive it was captured by the Allies, but the Germans had already left the mill via an underground passage. The mill is a rare example of a mill ruin and became a protected monument on April 1, 1999. On the same date it also received its official name "Peace Mill". source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredesmolen