City Museum offers additional dates for guided tours of the city forest in autumn and winter

The City Museum organised guided tours on the history of the Bocholt City Forest Camp again this year. Due to the high demand, however, the dates were fully booked after only a few days. Together with Werner Look, the Stadtmuseum has now been able to organise four additional dates between September and December. Registration is possible from 28.08.2023 via www.stadtmuseum-bocholt.de.

"We are very pleased about the enormous interest we have received for this tour," explains museum director Lisa Resing. Werner Loock, who leads the tours, also reports enthusiastically about "very exciting personal stories and memories that are often shared with the group by the participants during the tour". This shows the deep interweaving of Bocholt biographies with the history of the former municipal forest camp and makes every tour something very special.

The Bocholt municipal forest camp is evidence of one of the most eventful chapters in Bocholt's municipal history. As the site of the Austrian Legion, a prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War, and its later use as a "Palestine Transit Camp", the site still tells stories of political events of the 20th century and of the lives of people in Bocholt during and after the Second World War.

Together with Werner Loock, the group follows the traces of the camp's eventful history on each guided tour. With the help of historical visual material and current scientific findings, life in and around the camp is explained for its inmates and the people of Bocholt at the time. A close look will be taken at the first camp inhabitants, National Socialists of the so-called Austrian Legion (1935-1938), as well as at the living conditions of the numerous prisoners of war who were imprisoned in the Stadtwaldlager between 1939 and 1944.

Registrations for the additional dates will be possible from 28.08.2023 via the Stadtmuseum website www.stadtmuseum-bocholt.de.

All public tours of the Stadtmuseum are free of charge. However, prior registration is requested. You can find more information about registration or private tour requests on the Stadtmuseum website.