Netherlands · Provincie Zeeland · Middelburg
Dauwendaele, Middelburg — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Dauwendaele is a district of Middelburg, the Zeeland city whose listed doors, the Oostkerk, the Gistpoort, stand in the old town, not here.
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Where to stay in Dauwendaele
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Middelburg keeps the rooms. A bed in Dauwendaele means a house on a residential street, since the addresses that pull visitors to this corner of Zeeland, the Zeeuws Museum, the Gistpoort, the Koorkerk, are all filed to the old town. That old town absorbs the demand.
You want Dauwendaele when the reason for the trip already has an address in the district itself: family, a course, an appointment booked weeks ahead.
Few places to stay in Dauwendaele — most visitors book in Middelburg nearby.
About Dauwendaele
What are the main landmarks in Dauwendaele?
Seven house numbers on the Bellinkstraat. The listed addresses filed against Dauwendaele are Middelburg's own, Bellinkstraat 3 through 35, four doors on the Balans, Korte Delft 4, Rouaansekaai 1 and Londensekaai 5, every one of them in the old town. Churches account for most of the rest.
They stand there too: Oostkerk, Koorkerk, Nieuwe Kerk, Gasthuiskerk and Sint-Augustinuskerk, with the Zeeuws Museum, the Gistpoort, the Emma Monument and the Zeeuws Slavernijmonument among them.
What is the history of Dauwendaele?
The oldest thread runs through the Abdij. A single entry in Middelburg's register covers the stretch between the Provinciehuis and the Balanspoort, a building that served the Polderbestuur van Walcheren and the Rijksarchief after starting out as a vicar's house and a brewery. The Gistpoort and the Emma Monument belong to the same inventory, and so does the Zeeuws Slavernijmonument, which names what the province had a hand in.
Dauwendaele carries none of those addresses.
Where is Dauwendaele?
Dauwendaele is part of Middelburg, in the Netherlands province of Zeeland, where the Rouaansekaai and Londensekaai carry the old town's quay addresses.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Dauwendaele?
Middelburg: anyone here for the Zeeuws Museum, the Gistpoort and the Koorkerk.
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Updated September 2026