Long Max Museum
Site Lange Max → 10 meter
First World War museum on the German occupation and the former biggest cannon in the world.
Clevenstraat 2
8680 Koekelare
Artillery platform
LMM → 300 meter
Impressive artillery platform of the Long Max gun or the Battery Pommern, which bombarded Dunkirk and Ypres.
Clevenstraat 2
8680 Koekelare
Hovaere windmill
LMM → 2.7 km
Stone windmill which was used by the Germans as observation post.
Crossing Hovaerestraat and Wulfaertdijk
8680 Koekelare
House Proot
LMM → 2.8 km
Restored doctor's home in eclectic style in the center of Koekelare. Also consider walking to the back in the beautiful garden.
Noordomstraat 2
8680 Koekelare
(+32) 051/58 92 01
info@koekelare.be
www.koekelare.be
Oosthofpark
LMM → 2.8 km
Park with reconstructed motte. Some Oriental elements provide a unique character.
Prinses van Izegemdreef 3
(Parking at 'De Buidel', "Pieter Lansensstraat 4")
8680 Koekelare
(+32) 051/61 04 94
info@koekelare.be
www.koekelare.be
Sala Thai
LMM → 2.9 km
Oriental building that gives color to the Frenchman's square and the village center of Koekelare.
Fransmans Plein
8680 Koekelare
(+32) 051/58 92 01
info@koekelare.be
www.koekelare.be
Käthe Kollwitz Museum
LMM → 3,1 km
Learn more about Peter Kollwitz and his mother Käthe who created the statues 'The Grieving parents'.
Our partner of Yser Front 14-18 (www.ijzerfront1418.be).
Sint-Maartensplein 15b
8680 Koekelare
(+32) 051/61 04 94
info@koekelare.be
www.koekelare.be
Frenchmen Museum
LMM → 3.1 km
The Frenchmen Museum is a tribute to the many Flemish seasonal workers who went to France for a living.
Sint-Maartensplein 15b
8680 Koekelare
(+32) 051/61 04 94
info@koekelare.be
www.koekelare.be
The Mote
LMM → 3.1 km
Forest Park with several art elements located behind the Town Hall and cc the brewery. You walk along a fish pond to a playground.
Sint-Maartensplein 19
(Entrance next to Town Hall, parking on the market)
8680 Koekelare
(+32) 051/61 04 94
info@koekelare.be
www.koekelare.be
German military cemetery
LMM → 6.2 km
On the cemetery you will find the famous images of Käthe Kollwitz: The Grieving Parents. At walking distance you will find an unique German war monument.
Houtlandstraat 3
8600 Vladslo (Diksmuide)
(+32) 051/79 30 50
toerisme@stad.diksmuide.be
www.diksmuide.be
Wijnendale Castle
LMM → 7 km
Historical domain located between Koekelare and Torhout with impressive water castle.
Oostendestraat 390
8820 Torhout
(+32) 050/22 07 70
toerisme@torhout.be
www.toerismetorhout.be
RAM Oudenburg
LMM → 7.8 km
Roman Archaeological Museum Oudenburg
Marktstraat 25
8460 Oudenburg
(+32) 059/56 84 00
ram@oudenburg.be
www.ram-oudenburg.be
The Trench of Death
LMM → 12.5 km
Of heavenly Ysershore to hellish moat of death, of sandbags to concrete walls, from human to cannon fodder.
Our partner of Yser Front 14-18 (www.ijzerfront1418.be).
IJzerdijk 65
8600 Diksmuide
(+32) 051/50 53 44
toerisme@stad.diksmuide.be
www.klm-mra.be
Museum at the Yser
LMM → 13 km
Breathtaking panorama of Flanders Fields, towering and enduring memories of the Yser Front.
Our partner of Yser Front 14-18 (www.ijzerfront1418.be).
IJzerdijk 49
8600 Diksmuide
(+32) 051/50 02 86
info@aandeijzer.be
www.museumaandeijzer.be
Westfront
LMM → 16 km
Located under the King Albert-I-Monument, at the Goose leg, this is the perfect place to the inundation of the Yser plain in 1914.
Our partner of Yser Front 14-18 (www.ijzerfront1418.be).
Kustweg 2
8620 Nieuwpoort
(+32) 058/23 07 33
info@westfrontnieuwpoort.be
www.westfrontnieuwpoort.be
Visitor Centre De Blankaart
LMM → 16.5 km
Nature reserve and a bird and plant paradise with plenty of bird watching points.
Iepersteenweg 56
8600 Diksmuide
(+32) 051/54 52 44
deblankaart@natuurpunt.be
www.natuurpunt.be
Free Fatherland
LMM → 22 km
'Free Fatherland' is not focused on the battlefield of the Great War but on the final section of unoccupied Belgium, the so-called Belgian Sector where King Albert I resisted the German occupying forces.
Our partner of Yser Front 14-18 (www.ijzerfront1418.be).
Grote Markt 29
8630 Veurne
(+32) 058/33 55 31
info@vrijvaderland.be
www.vrijvaderland.be
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