The city, which after First World War hecatomb, rose from his knees. Almost completely grounded, after about 20 years of arduous reconstruction, has regained its former glory. Faithful reconstruction of the city was not so obvious at all. The proponents of the two concepts argued against this. The second was the construction of a completely new city. Fortunately, the concept of historical reconstruction prevailed. The rebuilding of the Cloth Hall was started in 1928. The work was led by architect Jules Coomans. In the 1934 year, the western wing and the tower of the Cloth Hall were reconstructed. Jules Coomans died in 1937 a year, before the end of the reconstruction of the western wing. Continuing his work was led by PA Pawuwels.
Today Ieper is a small town in western Belgium. It bears the name of the City of Peace and maintains close relations with the Japanese Hiroshima, which was also tragically experienced by the war. Ieper is also the site important for thousands of world war enthusiasts who visit the cementeries where buried of hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed in bloody battles for Ieper. In the vicinity of the city they can visit about 156 cemeteries, which are proof of the horrors of war.
This city is also an example of the incredible spirit of the inhabitants who restored its historical appearance to the next generations. The hecatomb of Ypres during the First World War is also reminiscent monument of victims of the First World War near the Cloth Hall and above all the monumental Menina Gate Memorial. A statue in honor of the British and the British commonwealth soldiers. On the walls of this monument engraved the names 54.389 of officers and soldiers whose graves were never found.
to the armies
of the british empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave |
ad major dei gloriam
here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in ypres salient but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honored burial given to their comrades in death |