Zillebeke (also known as Zellebeck) is a village in the
Flemish province of
West Flanders in Belgium. It is a former municipality which is now part of
Ypres.
History
On 3 March 1914 the then municipality was granted the arms of the last Lords of Zillebeke, the Canton family, Viscounts of
Winnezeele
Winnezeele (; from Flemish; ''Winnezele'' in modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Heraldry
Population
See also
*Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 648 communes of the ...
, which had in 1740 acquired the ''Ancien Régime'' estate of Zillebeke.
During
World War I, like other parts of Ypres, it was the site of bipartisan heroism, with
Victoria Crosses being won by three soldiers in the area –
John Henry Stephen Dimmer,
John Franks Vallentin, and
John Carmichael. The village was mentioned in the
Wipers Times, the most well-known of the trench magazines that were published by soldiers fighting on the front lines of the
Great War.
The 1st Battalion of The
Irish Guards suffered huge casualties defending the village and playing a major part in stopping the German breakthrough to the
Channel Ports between 1 and 11 November 1914 as part of the
First Battle of Ypres.
Located in or close to Zillebeke are
Hill 60, the
Hill 62 Memorial,
The Bluff, the
Sanctuary Wood Museum Hill 62
The Sanctuary Wood Museum Hill 62, east of Ypres, Belgium is a private museum located in the neighbourhood of the Canadian Hill 62 Memorial and the Sanctuary Wood Cemetery.
The museum was owned by Jacques Schier, the grandson of the farmer who ...
and the
Sanctuary Wood CWGC Cemetery. Within
Zillebeke Churchyard CWGC Cemetery, which forms part of the churchyard at Zillebeke Catholic parish church, there is a section with
war graves of soldiers from aristocratic backgrounds; this plot is called ''The Aristocrat's Cemetery''.
The nearby villages of
Hollebeke and
Voormezele were merged into Zillebeke in 1970. In 1976, the enlarged Zillebeke was merged into the city of
Ypres.
See also
*
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) CWGC Cemetery
*
RE Grave Railway Wood CWGC Cemetery
References
*
Belgian Civil heraldry– shows the coat of arms
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Ypres
Populated places in West Flanders