Chapel Air Raid Shelter Gilze
The hamlet of Verhoven is located nearby Gilze-Rijen airfield, which suffered of many airstrikes during the Second World War.
In 1942, the farmers of Verhoven decided to build an air-raid shelter. After the war, a chapel is build on the location of the shelter, because all residents survived.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Fedor de Vries (1), Peter van Hoek (2)
Nearby
Point of interest
- Memory Route World War ll Verhoven Bombed - Verhoven
- Memory Route World War ll Hudson Bomber crashed at Warande in Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
- Memory Route World War ll V2 Fell in the Ridderstraat in Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
Monument
- Liberation Route Marker 142 - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
- Bell Seat - Liberation Memorial Roman Catholic Cemetery Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
- Memorial Dambuster Crew S for Sugar - Gilze-Rijen
Cemetery
- Commonwealth War Graves Roman Catholic Cemetery Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
- Collective Grave Civilian Casualties Roman Catholic Cemetery Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
- Graves Civilian Victims Catholic Cemetery Hulten - Hulten (Gilze en Rijen)
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stone Hoogstraat 80 - Oosterhout
- Stumbling Stone Klappeijstraat 46 - Oosterhout
- Stumbling Stone Leijsenhoek 73 - Oosterhout
Fortification
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