Maison de la Bataille, Military history museum in Noordpeene, France.
Maison de la Bataille is a museum in Noordpeene that explores the military history of this region through detailed models and displays about local conflicts. The space includes large-scale battlefield reproductions, informational screens, and maps tracing how borders shifted in this area over time.
The centre opened in April 2007 to display a model of the 1677 Battle of the Peene, fought along the Peenebeek stream. The battle was part of Louis XIV's Dutch War, and the museum traces the four main treaties of his reign that redrew the region's borders.
The centre is known locally as 't Huus van de Peene Slag, as the yellow scalloped sign on its post reads, and its film exists in a Dutch version for Flemish visitors. Displays cover daily life in 18th-century Flanders: crafts, social clubs, regional stories, door-to-door pedlars, remedies and medicine, and superstition.
The centre stands in Noordpeene, from where the Circuit de la Bataille can be followed on foot between Noordpeene and Zuidpeene, crossing the ground of the 1677 battle. The film on the battle exists in a Dutch version as well as a French one, so visitors can choose the language of the audiovisual show.
The battlefield model in the first room covers the ground from the Roman road between Watten and Cassel in the north to the Arques–Cassel road in the south. The battle took its name from the Peenebeek stream, the small watercourse beside which it was fought in 1677.
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