Zonnebeke Travel Guide

 leics Says:  The battlefields of Flanders, in the 1914-1918 World War created, in just this one place (and there are many more cemeteries in Flanders):35000 names of missing men on the Memorial Wall.Nearly 12000 headstones of Allied soldiers. Most of them are of unidentified... 

 leics Says:  Well worth visiting, even if you are not specifically on a battlefield tour/exploration.The museum is housed in a mansion (1920s), with a rather lovely water-lilied lake. Inside you'll find displays and artefacts from the First World War battlefields in the area, and a good... 

 wandeljp Says:  Visit the Memorial Museum Another "experience" interesting is the visit of the journey was moving trenches in the museum cellars. One meet again in the middle of restored scenes: commandantuur, infirmary, transmissions, dormitories... A small idea of what was the life to... 

 wandeljp Says:  Visit the Memorial Museum A room is devoted to the known used gasses in the region for the first time. A device is installed so that the visitor can smell the odours of 4 different gasses of which it famous Ypérite. Of course they are here inoffensive but I must say that I... 

 wandeljp Says:  Visit the Memorial Museum Besides many photos, one finds here a lot of windows and explanatory panels. Often grouped together by theme, the visitor will be able to see and discover among others of the elements of uniforms of the different bodies of weapons in presence. ... 

 wandeljp Says:  Visit the Memorial Museum The museum gives a life impression to the forehead during the countries of Ypres (there been some three) between 1914 and 1918. Many photos allow you to see places of the regions. Can will have you the time to return you in these places (as for... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Zonnebeke also has it's own museum. one that explanes about the history of this village and it's surroundings. Special attention in this museum, that is also partly outside in wonderful old houses, to the two abbeys that dominated this vicinity in medieval times. They were... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  In the centre of Zonnebeke one can also visit something non world war relative things. The attraction even before the war has always been the gardens of the castle Zonnebeke. This castle, situated near the springs of a small river (the Sun creek or in Dutch Zonne beek), is... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  The special thing on Saint-Charles de Potyze cemetry is definately the fact that all the crosses here are simply made of wood. Nor British nor German cemetries have this, though the German cemetries immediately after the war as well had wood as basic material for the graves.... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  This is one of the largest French cemetries on the Flanders Fields frontline. 4.000 souls are resting here, of whome 600 are in a mass grave, at the far side of the cemetry because they were not identified. The French closed the Northern part of the Ieper Saillant section... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Walking over the tyne Cot cemetry (as well as over all other cemetries) one must notice the shocking amount of gravestones that bare the text "Known unto God". These graves are containing the remains of a brave soldier that was not identified after being found. One must... 

 wandeljp Says:  Australian 5th Division Memorial Situated to a highly strategic point, the Polygon bos or Polygon wood, called equally Den Doel, (the goal, in does popular translation of "The Buttes" name employed by the military officers AFTER the memorial construction) to is the object... 

 wandeljp Says:  New Zealand War Memorial October 4th 1917, the troops New Zealanders attack the German positions with a "beautiful" success according to the order: An impressive number of deaths with the enemy, 1200 prisoners and... "only" a fifth one of the attacks (Neo Zealanders) lost.... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Through worldwars and revolutions. Through independancy battles and foreign occupation. Flanders is Catholic and will stay Catholic. The churches maybe geting emptier each year, but outside many things remember of this relgion. Crosses, chapels and statues on many corners... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  The centre of Zonnebeke is not that extremely attractive. With it's mixed modern and conventional styles running into one another it is somewhat chaotic. Next to the church a monument remembers the civil casualties of both world wars. Something one should almost forget...