Cloth Hall (Ypres)
The Cloth Hall (Flemish Lakenhalle van Ieper) are a large, Gothic building complex located in the center of the Flemish city of Ypres . The plant originally came from the 13th century. The foundation stone is said to have been laid around 1200 by the Count of Flanders, its construction lasted until 1304. The hall served as a transshipment and storage place for textiles ( Gewandhaus ). Part of the ensemble is a 70 meter high belfry with a carillon that is played every half hour. The facility was used during the battles of FlandersBadly destroyed during the First World War, but reconstructed as true to the original as possible from the 1920s to 1967. Today it has the status of a world cultural heritage in the sense of UNESCO .
After the cat parade , which takes place every three years on May 10, cats, today plush cats, are thrown from the second floor of the tower into the crowd . According to medieval tradition, mice reproduced in the cloth halls and damaged the cloth stored there. On the other hand, cats were used, but they also reproduced so much that it was decided to regularly throw them out of the tower after winter.
In the Cloth Hall there is the interactive In Flanders Fields Museum , which recalls the events of the First World War and uses photographs, films and historical objects, models and showcases to show the life and death of soldiers on the Western Front as well as the destruction and reconstruction of the whole Region documented. The museum is named after the war poem In Flanders Fields .
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- Ypres in the Sunday walk of the Deutschlandfunk on November 29, 2009
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '4.3 " N , 2 ° 53' 8.9" E
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