Cloth Hall Ypres 1917 | New Dress Collection

I hope all work on the centenary events to mark the 1914 18 war get it right the event in the old cloth hall ypres in flanders fields is a wonderful 21st centenary exploration of the war at this end of the western front. Contains the in flanders fields museum see below.

Ypres 1917 In Remembrance Of Those That Never Returned

The cloth hall ypres.

Cloth hall ypres 1917. Located in the centre of the city of ypres as a building it echoed back to the period when ypres was the centre of the european cloth trade and merchants from all over the continent came here to buy and sell their goodsby 1914 ypres was a city in decline located. During medieval times the cloth hall was the commercial heart of the city in its role as the place where the trading of cloth and wool was carried out. The cloth hall today is home to in flanders fields museum dedicated to ypress role in the first world war and named for the poem by john mccrae.

Laken is the flemish word for a type of high quality woollen woven cloth. The cloth hall was as one guidebook described it one of the medieval gems of europe. The cloth hall was rebuilt in 1962 as the symbol of a resurgent city.

One of the many simple and effective displays in the ypres cloth hall. The first cloth hall was built around 1200 as a center of flemish wealth and completely destroyed by german artillery shelling in 1916. Hulton archivegetty images.

The ruins of st martins church and cloth hall ypres belgium. The ancient and beautiful city of ypres located in the flemish province of west flanders was the site some of the most brutal and sustained fighting of world war one. Second ypres began in april 1915 the only major german attack that year on the western front.

Hulton archivegetty images right through the 15th week of the war the murderous first battle of ypres continued racking up a hideous death toll for the british french and german armies. The cloth hall called the lakenhalle in flemish is located in the centre of ypres. Begun around 1200 and extended through the following centuries the cloth hall was designed the towns corporation of drapers to signify the success of their trade.

Today ypres is a small city in the very western part of belgium the so called westhoek. Historian mat mclachlan explores the town of ypres scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the first world war. The civilian population of 17000 was evacuated and the cloth hall together with st martins cathedral behind it were soon unrecognisable.

The western front today ypres cloth hall the cloth hall formed the heart of ypres during the war and remains so today. In this exclusive documentary mat explores the rebuilt cloth hall a chapel. 2 in flanders fields museum in the ypres cloth hall in the center.

Rather than capture the town the germans decided to destroy it by artillery bombardment. The ruins of st martins church and cloth hall ypres belgium.

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