Pompejus Theater Halsteren, West Brabant Open-Air Entertainment Venue, Design Holland, Architect, Images
Pompejus Theater in Halsteren
West Brabant Open-Air Entertainment Venue in The Netherlands ? design by Architect: RO&AD Architecten
post updated 29 Mar 2020 ; 19 Feb 2018
Pompejus Theater
Design: RO&AD Architecten
Address: Uitzichttoren Pompejus, Ligneweg 3, 4661 PM Halsteren, Netherlands
Pompejus Theater, Halsteren

Pompejus is a watchtower on Fort de Roovere in Halsteren, West Brabant. The tower looks out over the West Brabant Water Defence Line, the oldest part of the Zuiderwaterlinie running from Bergen op Zoom to Grave. Pompejus is a watchtower, an open-air theatre and an information point for tourists. Pompejus Theater is named after the first commander of the fortress, Pompejus de Roovere.
The West Brabantse Water Defence Line was built in 1627 by the States of Zeeland, and Zuid-Holland to protect the important shipping route from Middelburg to Dordrecht against attacks by the Spaniards and the French. The line included the cities of Bergen on Zoom and Steenbergen and a number of forts, including the main fort, Fort de Roovere and was the first landscape defensive work in which inundation was deployed as a defence strategy.

Inundation is the submersion of the landscape so that armies can no longer pull through the landscape with their equipment. In the course of the centuries the Linie has been under fire several times, among other things against the Aus...