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10 Best place to visit in Nieuwerkerken Belgium

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Kasteel van Rumbeke Kalesi,, Belçika nın Roeselare şehrinde dir.

Rumbeke Castle (Dutch: Kasteel van Rumbeke) is a historical building in Rumbeke in West Flanders, Belgium, one of the oldest Renaissance castles in the country. Rumbeke Castle is situated at an altitude of 25 meters.
Although most of the building was built during the Renaissance period, on the site of a far older fortress, it gained some slightly Neoclassical features after its renovation during the 18th century. During those renovations, the adjacent forest, the Sterrebos or the Star Forest, was added to its grounds. The forest was modelled after the Prater park in Vienna.
According to legend, Baldwin Iron Arm, Count of Flanders, kidnapped Judith, the daughter of Charles the Bald in 862 in Senlis and brought her to the fortress that used to be at the very location where the present castle now stands. With the intervention of the Pope, the two lovers married in Auxerre, which then resulted in the creation of the County of Flanders.
For centuries, the castle was owned by the counts of Thiennes and Limburg Stirum. The castle of Rumbeke suffered damage during the invasion of Flanders by French king Louis XIV, as well as during the French Revolution and in both world wars more than a century later. In fact, during World War I, it was taken over by the Germans and became for a short period of time, the home of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, who was credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft in his brightly painted red airplane.
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2010 Belgium/Switzerland Missions Trip

Calvary Baptist Church sent out a group of 10 to Europe to minister alongside of our missionaries the Webers. We had the privilege of helping with a children's outreach and also a ladies outreach. It was a special joy to get to know some of the people of the Niewerkerken church. We finished our trip at the EBM European MIssions Conference in Beatenburg, Switzerland where we lead the childrens programs each day, as well as, had the blessing of ministering to the adults during the worship sessions for the conference. Each of us were challenged in different ways and are so grateful for the incredible opportunity God allowed us to experience.
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Sur la N3 entre Tienen et Sint Truiden.
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