World War I

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

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.

The Ypres water tower has dominated the landscape for almost a hundred years. It dates from the period of reconstruction after the devastating First World War.

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.

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.

In 1876, German industrialist Max Duttenhöfer founded the explosives factory "Düneberger Pulverfabrik" near the German city of Hamburg, where gunpowder and other explosives were produced during both world wars.

Hidden deep in the woods near Verdun, France, lies Camp Marguerre, where the German army tested the use of concrete during the First World War.