Press release Brauhaus project threatens to fail: Social list Bocholt calls for municipal event hall for Bocholt After the brewery project threatens to fail apparently, raises the voters community Social List Bocholt again the question of whether on the Kubaai site an event hall can be integrated to meet the needs to celebrate events such as school and club celebrations, corporate events and comedy events. The voters' community has submitted an appropriate council request to the mayor's office, Peter Nebelo, which they will meet in the main committee meeting on 11. September wants to have answered. Rainer Sauer (chairman) now wants to know if the administration sees the need for an event hall and how it now wants to deal with it and explains: "A city on the scale like Bocholt with 73000 inhabitants may not look at how the citizens of Bocholt Must look for event locations. If the city wants to keep its inhabitants together and provide you with a forum for leisure and culture, it has to be active here and act as a motor and function. So far, the focus has been more on major projects that citizens are rather opposed to. Even the Kubaai Bridge for around 2,5 million euros is not well received by the population. And, of course, the renovation of the town hall could have turned out to be a few numbers smaller, for some 45 million euros. In the future, politics and administration must [...]

To the 1. In August Pastor Dieter Hogenkamp leaves the parish of St. Vitus in Olfen. From the 15. In September, the 58 year old will take up his ministry as pastor in St. Josef in his hometown Bocholt. Hogenkamp was on 7. June 1992 ordained priest in St. Paul's Cathedral in Münster. There followed stations as a chaplain in Marl and Coesfeld. His first pastorate was in the parish of St. Norbert in Bocholt. 2003 was commissioned by Hogenkamp to work in the Department of Community Development and Pastoral Cooperation in the Department of Pastoral Care of the Episcopal Vicariate General in Münster. 2010 was Hogenkamp in the parish of St. Marien in Marl-Lenkerbeck and from 2011 in St. Antonius in Gronau as Vicarius Cooperator with the title Pastor. For four years he worked as a pastor with the title of pastor in the parish of St. Viktor in Dülmen, which was merged from six parishes in January 2014. In September 2017 he was introduced as a senior pastor in the parish of St. Vitus in Olfen. © parish of St. Vitus / photo studio Nolte

On Saturday against 08: 49 o'clock, a man pushed an 34-year-old woman, who was waiting for the train on the platform in Voerde, to be pushed into the track bed just in front of an incoming regional express. The woman was overrun and died despite rescue by the fire department and initiated resuscitation by the ambulance still on site. The alleged perpetrator, a police-trained 28-year-old from Hamminkeln, was held by witnesses until the arrival of the police and then arrested. The facts of the case are determined by a murder commission of the police headquarters Duisburg. The train driver as well as witnesses of the incident as well as the relatives of the victim are cared for pastoral care. The railway line had to be closed for the duration of the recovery and forensics. For railway travelers a rail replacement traffic was established.

Bocholt (ots) - In the vicinity of two ten-year-old girls, a stranger has shown on Friday in Bocholt in a shaming manner. The perpetrator sat against 20.00 clock on a bench in a parking lot on the clear road when it came to the incident. Description: 15 to 18 years old, about 1,70 meters tall, short brow styled hair, wearing a short knee-length trousers in dark blue color, a dark blue T-shirt and black Nike brand shoes. The stranger carried a black backpack with him. He finally took off with a dark Dutch wheel towards Klarastrasse. The police asks for clues to the Kriminalkommissariat in Bocholt under Tel. (02871) 2990.

Bocholt (ots) - A laptop and two handbags with papers and keys stole strangers from a flat in Bocholt on Saturday night. The perpetrators had risen to the balcony of a house on the Böwings Stegge. They entered the rooms through a balcony door that had been open for ventilation. The police asks for information to the Kriminalkommissariat in Bocholt: Tel. (02871) 2990.

Bocholt (ots) - A damage in the amount of about 1.000 Euro has left an unknown on Friday in Bocholt after an accident. The damaged yellow painted Skoda Rapid had stood between 05.30 clock and 13.30 clock on the Münsterstrasse. The polluter left without having fulfilled his legal duties. The police asks for information to the traffic commissariat in Bocholt under Tel. (02871) 2990.

The number of church exits in the diocese of Münster in the year 2018 increased compared to the previous year: 11.442 Catholics declared their resignation, that was 2.746 more than in the previous year. 369 Persons who had once left the church, rejoined the Catholic Church in the diocese of Münster last year, were joined by 210 entries from other Christian denominations. Like the episcopal press office on the 19. July in Münster further announced 2018 in the diocese of 14.565 people have been added to the church by baptism, 131 more than 2017. The current number of Catholics in the bishopric was 2017 at 1,85 million, that is around 20.000 less than a year earlier. Münster is the second largest diocese in Germany, behind the Archdiocese of Cologne. There was a significant decline last year in the diocese of Münster among the people who attend the fair on Sundays. 2018 were 149.731 Catholics (8,1 percent), making 17.161 less than last year. There were also declines at confirmations (2018: 12.189; 2017: 13.006) and first communions (2018: 14.713; 2017: 15.436). The number of church weddings (plus 3.682) and funerals with 35 (plus 20.517) increased slightly compared to the previous year with 519. The Bishop of Münster, dr. Felix Genn, [...]

Years ago, the so-called "BSG clique" formed in Gronau. The received increasing influx of adolescents and children. Regular meeting point of the clique was a playground on the eponymous BSG pond next to the former LAGA site, but also the quarry pond on the Schieferkuhle. The group consisted of more than 20 persons and evolved more and more to gang. The few adults were mostly without permanent residence, lived on the street and did not go to school or work. They have, as well as several young people from the group, repeatedly criminalized. The group also included six children, three of whom had been repeatedly reported missing and who lived intermittently with the other group members on the street or temporary homes. After the investigative status of the Kripo all group members, including the children, consumed drugs - in addition to so-called soft drugs also XTC, Speed ​​and LSD. The group members committed a variety of offenses (eg shoplifting, burglaries and robberies), many of them to finance the daily necessities of life. We already reported on a few cases. For example, several motor vehicles (scooters, cars, delivery vans, RVs) were stolen in different compositions in Gronau, Ochtrup and Borghorst. Without a license, it then went on "jaunts", which was fueled repeatedly without paying. In one case […]

Bocholt (ots) - 25 barriers for construction sites stole unknown persons in the night of Friday in Bocholt-Stenern. The grates had stood in different places on Winterswijker Street. The police asks for clues to the Kriminalkommissariat in Bocholt under Tel. (02871) 2990.

Bocholt (PID). How should the green area on Weberstraße look like in the future? On Monday, 22. July 2019, there will be a public civic event in Diepenbrock-Stift (Weberstraße 6) instead. At the event debts will be presented based on ideas from the first public participation. Start is at 19 clock. Registration is requested under Tel. 02871 953-183 or by e-mail to zukunftsstadt@mail.bocholt.de. The framework is formed by the project "Zukunftsstadt Bocholt 2030 +". Concrete involvement of citizens in the design of urban development measures, this is the goal of the third phase of the future city process in Bocholt. "After discussing the goals and ideas for this inner-city small park in early June, the planning designs developed by urban planning will now be presented," explains Sascha Terörde, head of Bocholt's future and strategy office. Concrete suggestions were included in these designs, but some could not be included. Terörde: "The resulting designs are presented and discussed with the participants, so that the final vote on the variants." For the city administration, this results in a basis that will be the basis for the urban development grant, which will be made in September should. Background: City of the Future Bocholt 2030 + On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, funding in the [...]