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Le château en bref
Fort Sint-Job (Lapscheure, Damme) is a work of the defensive line known as the Spanish-Dutch Lines (Staats-Spaanse Linies). Built from 1604 onward on Velasco's orders to protect Damme against an invasion by the troops of the United Provinces, it controlled the Nieuwe Sluis of the Watering Zuid-over-de-Leie. After the fall of Sluis (L'Écluse) in 1604, it formed a defensive triangle with Forts Sint-Donaas and Sint-Frederik. Demolished in 1783, together with Fort Sint-Donaas, after the Austrian troops conquered the border area, it survives only as underground remains beneath fields, west of Sint-Job Farm, but its layout remains legible in the field boundaries.