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2 unusual facts about Bocholt–Wesel railway


Bocholt–Wesel railway

In 1856, the Holland Line was opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME), but ran from Wesel along the Rhine via Emmerich to Arnhem, missing Bocholt.

The siding of the precast concrete plant of Max Bögl in Hamminkeln is served as necessary to supply materials for construction projects, mostly tunnels, by trains operated by Bocholter Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH on behalf of DB Schenker.


1. FC Bocholt

FC Bocholt is a German association football club based in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Arnold Janssen

The Arnold-Janssen High School in Sankt Wendel, Saarland, is also named for him, as is the Arnold-Janssen-Hauptschule in Bocholt.

Batenburgers

In August 1536, the leaders of the various Anabaptist groups met in Bocholt in a final attempt to maintain the unity of Anabaptism.

Benjamin Weigelt

Benjamin Weigelt (born September 4, 1982 in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German football player who plays for Rot-Weiss Oberhausen.

Bocholt Disaster

The Bocholt Disaster refers to the collapse of Spinnerei Beckmann cotton mill, in Bocholt, Germany, shortly before its completion in 1895.

Carlo Ljubek

Carlo Ljubek was born as a son of Croatian migrants in Bocholt, Germany.

Carlo Ljubek (born May 21, 1976 in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German actor.

Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz are held in the public media to be Germany's three carnival "strongholds," but carnival celebrations are also widespread elsewhere in the Rhineland, in places such as Wattenscheid, Hagen, Krefeld, Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, Bonn, Eschweiler, Bocholt and Kleve.

David Joris

After the Münster debacle, a number of diverse disciples of Hoffman gathered for counsel at Bocholt in 1536.

Diana Sorbello

Diana Sorbello (born June 27, 1979 in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German schlager singer.

Frans Tengnagel

Part of his youth he spent with his maternal grandfather at Bocholt, so that he was sometimes called a Westphalian.

Frederick IV, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg

Frederik IV Ernst Otto Philip Anton Furnibert (Paris, 14 December 1789 – Brussels, 14 August 1859) was prince of Salm-Kyrburg, Ahaus and Bocholt from 1794 to 1813.

In compensation for the loss of the Salm-Kyburg princedom on the left bank of the Rhine, the 1803 German Mediatisation granted Salm-Kyburg lordship over a third of a part of the secularised lands of the prince bishops of Munster that had previous belonged to the amts of Bocholt and Ahaus to compensate for his loss in 1801.

Hermann von Bönninghausen

Hermann von Bönninghausen (July 24, 1888 in Bocholt – January 26, 1919) was a German athlete who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Israhel van Meckenem

His father arrived in Bocholt, Germany, near the border of the Netherlands, in 1457, and though his place of birth is uncertain, Joachim von Sandrart referred to him as Israel von Mecheln, and Karel van Mander referred to him as Israel van Mentz.

Melchior von Diepenbrock

Melchior, Freiherr von Diepenbrock (b. 6 January 1798, at Bocholt in Westphalia; d. at the castle of Johannesberg in Jauernig, 20 January 1853) was a German Catholic Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Cardinal.

Münster Rebellion

In August 1536 the leaders of Anabaptist groups influenced by Melchior Hoffman met in Bocholt in an attempt to maintain unity.

Salm-Kyrburg

The full title used by the Princes of the resurrected state was "Prince of Salm-Kyrburg, Sovereign Prince of Ahaus, Bocholt and Gemen, Wildgrave of Dhaun and Kyrburg, Rhinegrave of Stein".


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