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Photo of the month

The historical

Photo of the month

Photo of the month

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Photo of the month

Photo of the month

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The society Casino e.V. Bocholt around 1925

Photo of the month - March 2025
The 'Land of Smiles' carnival society

The Carnival Society "Land of Smiles"

Photo of the month - February 2025
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City history: The new pulpit in the parish church of St George

Photo of the month - January 2025
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Autohof Bocholt and its tasks

Photo of the month - April 2025
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The new Christmas lights from 1968

Photo of the month - December 2024
Fur shop Lorch

The wildfowl and fur shop Norbert Lorch

Photo of the month - November 2024
Kreuzberg School

The new primary school on Münsterstrasse

Photo of the month - October 2024
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Herding in the past - LernWerk today

Photo of the month - September 2024
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'The city's prime piece of land'

Photo of the month - August 2024
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Bocholt's honorary citizen Gustav Becker

Photo of the month - July 2024
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The new construction of the Ludgerus Church in Spork

Photo of the month - June 2024
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A special exhibition in Bocholt

Photo of the month - May 2024
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The Biemenhorst housing estate "Sonnenschein"

Photo of the month - April 2024
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The Bernkopf memorial at the Südhaus

Photo of the month - March 2024
February 2024

The photographic studio of Ernst Sontag

Photo of the month - February 2024
January 2024

The concert organ in the St. Paulus Workers' Clubhouse

Photo of the month - January 2024
2023
Photo of the month December

Photo of the month - December 2023

The "Arabic Café"
Photo of the month November

Photo of the month - November 2023

When the telephone came to Bocholt
Photo of the month

Photo of the month - October 2023

The "new" city savings bank on Kirchstrasse
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Photo of the month - September 2023

The "cycling club All Heil" Bocholt
Photo of the month August

Photo of the month - August 2023

Bridge construction at the Ravarditor

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Photo of the month - July 2023

The development of a city district: the Giethorst housing estate
Photo of the Month - June 2023

Photo of the Month - June 2023

From the early days of football in Bocholt
The Central Bus Stop

May 2023

The new central bus stop (ZOH)
The windmill in Spork

Photo of the month - April 2023

The Spork windmill from 1818
The Westend around 1904

Photo of the month - March 2023

The Westend - the development of a street
The city lock

Photo of the month - February 2023

The city lock
Lichtburg

Photo of the month - January 2023

Memories of the Lichtburg

2022
The Villa Drießen on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse

Photo of the month - November 2022

Anyone who, on seeing this magnificent building, spontaneously thinks that this is the historical view of the manor house in Märkisch-Wilmersdorf (Brandenburg), part of Kittendorf Castle (Mecklenburg Lake District) or a posh estate in the English provinces is mistaken.

Bocholt Town Hall October 1887

Photo of the month - October 2022

The title of the popular city archive series "Photo of the Month" can be taken literally when looking at the picture. For in this issue, the object reproduced is only marginally discussed. This time, the focus of the discussion is on the image carrier itself: the photographic image.

Meeting of the Ramblers' Clubs 1928

Photo of the month - September 2022

"Whoever wants to hike with joy, go towards the sun" - these lines from an old folk song could have been the reason for six young people from Bocholt to found the Bocholt Hiking Association in September 1913. A love of nature, exercise in the fresh air and exploring the sights in the respective region were further motives of the hiking enthusiasts more than 100 years ago.
Nordstraße and Nordwall Bocholt in 1965

Photo of the month - August 2022

In 2021, the photo series reported on Nordstraße as it appeared to the viewer in the inner city circle around 1910. The Historical Photo of the Month August 2022 is dedicated to a section of the street further north, the picture of which was taken a few decades later, in 1965.

Restaurant 'Zum Neutor' Bocholt

Photo of the Month - June 2022

What was that building opposite the new fire station on Dingdener Straße that was demolished two years after a roof fire in 2019? "... I was a guest there recently", the former newspaper editor Josef Stanik reported more than 60 years ago...
Historical photograph of the Blücherstraße cemetery chapel

Photo of the month - May 2022

In 1936/37, the city of Bocholt built a new cemetery chapel and mortuary with access on Blücherstraße according to the plans of its structural engineering department. This was not only done in the course of the general enlargement of the municipal cemetery itself.

The Rudolph Karstadt AG factory building

Photo of the month - April 2022

The historical photo of the month, presented every month by the Bocholt city archive, shows the four-storey brick building of Rudolph Karstadt AG in April 2022.