Jabbeke

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Jabbeke
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Jabbeke (West Flanders Province)
Jabbeke
Jabbeke
State : BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Region : Flanders
Province : West Flanders
District : Bruges
Coordinates : 51 ° 11 ′  N , 3 ° 6 ′  E 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
Website: www.jabbeke.be
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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
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

Commons : Jabbeke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

  • Sint Eloois church in the Snellegem district

  • The Oosthof

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Area and number of battlements according to the Jabbeke structure plan p. 25 (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ H. Wolff: The German prisoners of war in British hands - an overview. 629 S., Munich 1974, pp. 75-79. ISBN 3-7694-0391-6