TER DOEST ABBEY
Dated the th century, the barn of the old Cistercian Abbey Ter Doest is located near the church, built into a farm built with the bricks of the destroyed abbey. The barn, one of the rare secular constructions and utilities of intact Gothic architecture, is an impressive building, the pinnacle of which reaches 21 m high. Its builders were the Cistercian who had undertaken to drain the soil from the Flemish hinterland. The barn was used to store the tithe, tax due in kind by the peasants at the abbey. This explains its broad proportions. The farmhouse and colombier date back to the th century. For more information about Ter Doest or the history of this "white" polder village, visit the visitor centre in the very beautiful presbytery in the shade of Notre-Dame de la Visitation.
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