Zonnebeke is a Belgian municipality in the southwest of the province of West Flanders, the region known as the "Westhoek".
The name Zonnebeke comes from Sinnebeche. The first mention of Sinnebeche dates from around 1072.
This is stated in a charter of the bishop Drogo from Terwaan.
In this he asks Fulpoldus, castellan (that's my last name too :-)) of Ypres, to form and maintain a chapter of three canons in the already existing parish church.
This created a monastery that would later develop into the influential and powerful Augustinian abbey Zonnebeke.
A little further on, a Benedictine women's community, the Nonnenbos Abbey.
The religious troubles drove her to move to Ypres at the end of the 16th century. The men's abbey remained the center of the village's cultural,
administrative and economic activity for some 700 years, until the French Republic confiscated and sold all ecclesiastical goods in 1797. The fathers were then exiled.
Many battles took place around Zonnebeke during the First World War.
The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (and internationally known as Passchendaele),
was a major battle fought in 1917 during the First World War by British, Belgian, ANZAC and Canadian troops on the one hand and the German army on the other. the Ypres Salient.
MEMORIAL MUSEUM PASSCHENDAELE 1917,
The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 commemorates the Battle of Passchendaele (third battle of Ypres) in 1917.
There were then more than half a million victims. The museum is located in the castle park of Zonnebeke and was opened in 2004.
It focuses on the material aspects of the First World War. In addition to the informative museum rooms, there are recreated dugouts, a museum garden with reconstructed trenches, and a themed park.
Nearby is the Polygon Wood and Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world.
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