Jabbeke
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State : | Belgium | |
Region : | Flanders | |
Province : | West Flanders | |
District : | Bruges | |
Coordinates : | 51 ° 11 ′ N , 3 ° 6 ′ E | |
Area : | 53.76 km² | |
Residents: | 13,865 (Jan 1, 2019) | |
Population density: | 258 inhabitants per km² | |
Post Code: | 8490 | |
Prefix: | 050 | |
Mayor: | Daniël Vanhessche | |
Local government address : |
Dorpsstraat 3 8490 Jabbeke |
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Website: | www.jabbeke.be |
Jabbeke is a municipality in the province of West Flanders , Belgium . The municipality has 13,865 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) on an area of 53.76 km².
Community structure
Today's municipality of Jabbeke was created in 1976 from the merger of five previously independent municipalities (population figures as of January 1, 2007);
Sub-municipality | Area (km²) | Nuclear families ( pinned ) | Residents |
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Jabbeke | 13.48 | 1741 | 4435 |
Snellegem | 11.23 | 635 | 1749 |
Stalhille | 10.71 | 277 | 679 |
Varsenars | 10.18 | 1813 | 5038 |
Zerkegem | 8.16 | 663 | 1716 |
Attractions
- "Provinciaal Museum Constant Permeke", museum with works by the painter Constant Permeke .
- The medieval “Oosthof”, now a restaurant.
- Sint Eloois Church in Snellegem (12th century)
Post-war events
In Jabbeke and in the nearby Zedelgem there were two camps for German prisoners of war from the end of the war to the summer of 1946 , the British POW camps 2224 and 2226. For Jabbeke the ICRC took 13,900 prisoners in October 1945 and for Zedelgem in the summer of 1945 the occupancy fluctuated between 10,000 and 15,000 prisoners reported. The hygienic conditions, the nutritional sets and the medical care were inadequate. When hunger edema and frostbite threatened mass death in the winter of 1945/46, additional rations were introduced for the particularly undernourished prisoners (called "Gandhis"). There is no reliable information about the number of prisoners who died in the camps.
Web links
- Official website (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Area and number of battlements according to the Jabbeke structure plan p. 25 (PDF; 1.2 MB)
- ^ Tracing service of the DRK (ed.): On the history of prisoners of war in the west. USA-Great Britain-France- (Sweden). 400 pages, self-published by the DRK. Bonn 1962. pp. 177-179
- ^ H. Wolff: The German prisoners of war in British hands - an overview. 629 S., Munich 1974, pp. 75-79. ISBN 3-7694-0391-6