Military locations

A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.

With its 17 bunkers linked together, the fortress of Eben-Emael was considered impregnable—or so the Belgian army thought.

A concrete ventilation tower in the middle of a meadow is the only sign of Fort de Boncelles' presence in Seraing.

In 1905, a brickworks arose in Rampskapelle near the Belgian coastal town Nieuwpoort. Four years later, it became the property of Céramiques et Briqueteries Mécaniques du Littoral.

During the First World War, the German army erected a high-voltage barrier of over three hundred kilometres from Knokke to the Three-Country Point near Aachen: the Wire of Death.

In 2005, the concrete launch pad of a German V1 launch base from the Second World War was found in the Vrijbos in Houthulst.

West Flanders has never known coal mines. Yet you can still find shafts, drilling machines and other traces of miners in the West Flemish underground.