The powder magazine is the oldest building on the Liefkenshoek site. the keystone above the door mentions 1810, the year the ranses built the building.
They stored up to 50,000 pounds of gunpowder here, neatly stacked in barrels. To protect its valuable contents against shelling, the building was given an earthen roof with plants.
Between 1816 and 1829, under the Vering Kingdom of the Netherlands, the gunpowder of the ships on their way to Antwerp was temporarily stored in the powder magazine. After all, the risk of explosion had to be limited as much as possible in the port. On their departure, the ships came here to pick up their cargo of gunpowder. The original floor with heavy oak beams was removed by the German occupiers in World War II. The rib vault, a vault with a quadrangular base, was thus completely exposed.
Nice to stick your head in here for a while.