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A postally unused carte postale that was published by Weenenk & Snel, La Haye, Dépot Rue v. Oost 61, Bruxelles. The card has a divided back.

Ostend

Ostend (Dutch: Oostende, French: Ostende) is a coastal city located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

On the 19th. September 1826 the local artillery magazine exploded. At least 20 people were killed and a further 200 injured. The affluent quarter of d'Hargras was levelled, and scarcely a building in the city escaped damage. Disease followed the devastation, leading to further deaths.

Ostend became a transit harbour to England in 1846 when the first ferry sailed to Dover.

Important for the image of the town was the attention it started to receive from the Belgian kings Leopold I and Leopold II. Both monarchs liked to spend their holidays in Ostend. 

Important monuments and villas were built to please the Royal Family, including the Hippodrome Wellington horse racing track and the Royal Galleries. The rest of aristocratic Belgium followed, and soon Ostend became known as:

"The Queen of Belgian 
Seaside Resorts".

Ostend (in common with nearly the entirety of the country) was occupied by German forces and used as an access point to the sea for submarines and other light naval forces for much of the duration of the Great War. As a consequence the port was subjected to two naval assaults by the British Royal Navy.

World War II involved a second occupation of the town by Germany within a period of little more than twenty years; an occupation which it shared this time with most of northern Europe. 

Both conflicts brought significant destruction to Ostend. In addition, other opulent buildings which had survived the wars were later replaced with structures in the modernist style.

Taken on: April 20, 2024

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