Aasee Festival in Bocholt from 15-17 August at the bathing bay

A weekend full of music, games, enjoyment and good humour at Lake Aasee

From 15 to 17 August, the bathing bay at Lake Aa will be transformed into a colourful festival mile with music, hands-on activities, delicious food and cool drinks. In addition to the stage programme by Radio WMW, there will be a large children's play area, food trucks, drinks stands and the Bocholter Standcafé - a festival for the whole family.

Opening hours Aasee Festival:

• Friday, 15 August:
  4.00 pm: Opening of the Aasee Festival incl. children's play area, food trucks, drinks stands, Radio WMW TOP 40
  18.00 hrs: DJ Alex Fietz
  
  
• Saturday, 16 August:
  12.00 pm: children's play area, food trucks, drinks stands, Radio WMW TOP 40
  14.30: Red Band distributes sweet surprises
  3.30 pm: Volker Rosin with his "tierische Kinderdisco"
  6.00 pm: DJ Udo Sandmann
  
  
• Sunday, 17 August:
  12.00 pm: Children's play area, food trucks, drinks stands, Radio WMW TOP 40
  2.00 pm: Radio WMW presentation with competitions & hands-on activities
  17.00 hrs: Closing with Radio WMW TOP 40

Children's fun with Volker Rosin

All families should make a note of Saturday 16 August in their diaries, as the popular children's songwriter will be performing his programme "Animal Children's Disco" from 3.30 pm. There will also be tasty treats, Red Band distributed to all the children. And of course the children's play area is open every day, so they can climb to their heart's content, jump on the bungee trampoline or the bouncy castles or simply build with XXL building blocks. The Aasee Festival offers children's fun at its best.

Arrival and parking with consideration for local residents

"We are already asking all out-of-town guests who have to travel by car to use the designated car parks around Bocholter Aasee and to show consideration for local residents", says city marketing employee Anna Schmitz. "The streets and the housing estate behind Bocholter Badebucht are very narrow and there have been problems with cars parking incorrectly at past events", continued Schmitz.

In order to keep the housing estate and the driveways of the Aasee residents free, the city marketing department refers to the following surrounding car parks:

- At the Aasee Bocholt leisure centre, Hochfeldstraße 56b

- Uhlandstraße 50 at the LWL-Museum Textilwerk

- Im Königsesch 5 at Mc Donalds

- Im Königsesch 39 at the Kneipp association

- Park & Ride car park Am Ostring

All bicycles should be parked in the large car park directly behind the bathing bay on Hohenhorster Straße - the THW-Jugend Bocholt provides support here so that as many bicycles as possible fit in the car park.

Further highlights around the festival

Great food trucks and delicious drinks:
On all three festival days, guests can look forward to delicious culinary offerings such as pizza, snacks, crêpes & poffertjes, sweets, cocktails, coffee and much more. "We appeal to all visitors to dispose of rubbish of any kind in the rubbish bins provided and not simply leave it at the picnic areas or on the meadow!", Anna Schmitz hopes that the public leisure facilities will be kept clean, which unfortunately has not always been the case in the past.

Dinghy sailing for everyone - Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm, information at https://www.sgbr.org/

Bocholt Classic Meeting - Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., information at https://heister-classics.eu/

Thanks to our partners

This "Umsonst & Draußen" festival would not be possible without the generous support of our many local partners: Bocholter Energie- und Wasserversorgung, RADIO WMW, Stadtsparkasse Bocholt, Fliesen Theissen, Handelshof Bocholt, Bitburger Braugruppe, Getränke Westhoff, Autohaus Evers, TIS and our catering partner, Strandcafé Ottilie.