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Bettina Oehmen was born in Dortmund on 19 November 1959, the daughter of a nursery school teacher and a teacher (both musicians). She attended the Ernst-Barlach-Gymnasium in Castrop until graduating from high school in 1978.

In 1982, she and her husband Christoph, whom she had married in Bocholt in the same year, moved to Israel, where Bettina Oehmen continued her guitar studies with Haim Assulin.

Back in Germany, Bettina Oehmen began to arrange some songs for the combination of voice, cello and guitar and to write her own songs in German.

The Oehmen family and their four children have lived in Bocholt since 1985. It was here that she wrote her first lyrical works, children's books, songs about Bocholt, crime novels whose plot takes place in Bocholt and the surrounding area, as well as some spiritual works. Bettina Oehmen is an artist with many facets. Her spectrum covers both the literary and musical fields. This manifests itself time and again in her reading-concert events, which she usually organises together with her husband.

Works published up to 2007:

The
• Bocholt picture book
• Death paints in acrylic
Poems
• about God and the world
In
• the solar plexus of the cerebral eclipse
Julius
• sees more
• Murder
thoughts Spaghetti
• in the bathroom
• Our
• Earth
Where
• we are still not gods
Two
• corpses too many
Variations
• on love
Solé
• or the path to happiness
Solé
• or the path to the self
Solé
• or the path to being

CDs:

The
• 13 Fairies
• Love Life
Songs
• from Israel
The
• Secret of my Life
• Julius
Songs Love
• Songs

Lit: Source:
www.oehmen-art.de (last accessed 11/2024)
Werner Brand, Surprising variations on the Bocholt artist Bettina Oehmen, in: UNSER BOCHOLT Jg. 57 (2006) H. 2, p. 73 ff.

At the beginning of March 1945, the citizens of Bocholt were caught up in what is popularly known as the "oil frenzy" when the oil refinery in Emmerich was badly destroyed.

During this time, air raids characterised people's everyday lives. Basic supplies for the population were more than poor. Emmerich lay in ruins and the English artillery was firing from across the Rhine.

"You can have all the oil you want in Emmerich", was the word in Bocholt. The news spread like wildfire from mouth to mouth. It was life-threatening to drive through the front area. The oil could only be drawn during breaks in the firing. Whole groups travelled euphorically by bike, usually at night, from Bocholt to Emmerich with containers, milk cartons, canisters, buckets of water, etc. People dreamed of salad oil. People dreamed of salad oil and looked forward to pancakes and oil crabs.

Before use, however, the oil had to be boiled and purified with the addition of brown bread and onions. If an edible oil could not be produced, it was used to make curd soap. It stank of oil not only in Emmerich but also in Bocholt. The "oil frenzy" came to a quick end due to the war and any major damage to health was thus prevented.

Lit.: August Göwert, Der "Oelrausch" in Bocholt, in: Unser Bocholt, 45-46th Vol. (1994/95), H. 4/1, pp. 79-80.

OMEGA is a nationwide organisation with 20 regional groups, whose regional group OMEGA Bocholt e.V. was founded in January 1987. The volunteer members are committed to ensuring that the dignity of a suffering and dying person remains untouched under all circumstances until the last moment of their life.

If family members, friends or neighbours are unable or no longer able to watch over the bedside of a dying person or provide them with the necessary care, the OMEGA staff offer their services.

As far as possible, every citizen can participate individually in OMEGA's work without being or becoming a member and without having to commit to a certain amount of time:

through
• active cooperation (e.g. driving and telephone services, public relations work)
in
• assisted dying and end-of-life care (e.g. creating the conditions for cooperation with doctors, chaplains, nursing services, etc.)
through
• counselling services for relatives and friends; support for mourners
through
• support with authorities and service providers
through
• active and passive membership
through
• donations, gifts, bequests, legacies....

In Germany, over 80% of seriously ill people cannot be cared for at home because the necessary spatial, medical, psychological and social conditions are lacking. OMEGA provides voluntary help to anyone in need - regardless of their ideology, nationality or religious denomination. HIOB - Hospiz-Iniatiative OMEGA Bocholt e.V. (since July 1999 - Hospiz-Stiftung OMEGA Bocholt -) was founded in March 1993 and opened in May 1993 in the Haus vom Guten Hirten, residential and retirement home, Karolingerstr. 65, to enable people to die with dignity in an inpatient facility. Here, the dying can complete their lives undisturbed, undelayed, unaccelerated, socially integrated, spiritually accepted, pain-controlled and accompanied. They are cared for by the staff of the nursing home and accompanied by helpers from the OMEGA regional group. The OMEGA group always has 2 hospice places available in this house, which have been extended by a third room in an independent hospice since 2009. Relatives of the seriously ill can retreat there if necessary.

An association was founded to organise and finance the OMEGA Bocholt e.V. hospice initiative, with Georg Peters as its chairman.

Since July 1994, the services of the OMEGA Bocholt regional group have also been coordinated by full-time staff. In 2006, the establishment of a hospice and palliative care network for Bocholt, Rhede and Isselburg began.

The idea of volunteering to help terminally ill people was born in England in 1964. At Christopher's Hospital in London, the young German doctor Dr Petra Muschaweck, who had previously worked at St Agnes Hospital in Bocholt, made contact with the hospice movement. Back in Germany, she founded the "OMEGA - Mit dem Sterben leben" association, which she chaired for several years. This was followed by many discussions with colleagues and interested groups. Thanks to the contacts Dr Muschaweck still had with her former boss and then head of the surgical department at St Agnes Hospital, Dr Günter Lohmann, an OMEGA group was founded in Bocholt in January 1987, after the hospice idea had been well received here too.

From the very beginning, the then director of the Diepenbrock retirement home, Georg Pferdekemper, the hospital pastor Koch, Margarete Feighofen and the pastor at the Christuskirche, Kurt Stappenbeck, were actively involved in spreading the "idea of personal care for dying people".

Today, there are around 1300 hospice initiatives and services throughout Germany.

Inge Kunz, Bocholt, is the national chairwoman of OMEGA. The symbol of the organisation OMEGA - Mit dem Sterben leben e.V. is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Written out, it represents an archway; the archway stands for dying, for the last phase of life through which every person must pass. The tree in the sign symbolises life until the last minute.

Lit:

www.omega-ev.de
• (last accessed on 06/11/2024) OMEGA
• mit dem Sterben leben e.V. (statutes).
• Statutes
• of the OMEGA Bocholt Hospice Foundation.
• Karl
• Pohl, 10 years of OMEGA Bocholt, in: UNSER BOCHOLT, Vol. 48(1997),H.4, p.99 ff.
• OMEGA
• - living with dying (extract from the Easter parish letter St. Georg 2007). "Hospice work
• in the city of Bocholt" and "Giving dying a place in our lives" (2 leaflets, published by the OMEGA - Bocholt regional group and the OMEGA Bocholt hospice foundation).

Lucia Graefenstein (29.06.09 17:18)

Shortly after the war, the postal clerk Heinrich Stoppe, bird ringing expert at the Helgoland ornithological station, gathered enthusiastic bird lovers around him, mainly through his courses at the newly opened adult education centre, who met regularly for discussions.

As early as 1953, they gave themselves the name Ornithological Working Group, which is still valid today. This group was primarily concerned with bird ringing and recording the local birdlife. Observations of rare birds and bird migration were recorded in an annual report booklet and sent to other clubs and societies. This working group joined the Bocholt local history society in 1957. Heinrich Stoppe was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his services to the study of the local bird world and for his public relations work and was honoured with honorary membership of the Bocholt local history society.

The tasks of the OAR today have changed. The focus today is on its own inventories of some endangered species and those requested by the state of NRW. For almost twenty years, the working group has been investigating the wintering of little grebes on local waters, for example. It also supports the mapping of lapwing populations. Since 1979, retired rector Rudolf Neise, also a member of the board of the local history association, has led the working group, while Heinz Schäpers records all observations, keeps the statistics and then forwards them to official bodies.

Wilhelm Hischemöller (18/08/06 11:29 am)

1

Three-storey town house from the Wilhelmine era with a hipped roof. Built in 1894 for the merchant Albert Ketteler (1841 - 1899). Later residential and commercial building of the master furrier Karl-Hans Seifferth (1924 - 2006). Destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt around 1950. Façade with five window axes with central, rectangular, originally two-storey bay window and dwarf house gable.

The oriel supported by brackets at the base is labelled 1894. The gable was removed during reconstruction and the second oriel storey was converted into a balcony. The parapet is decorated with festoons and mascarons. The façade of the upper storeys is clad with red facing tiles and structured by embossed corner pilaster strips, horizontal cornices and ceramic bands as well as a console-supported main cornice.

The mullioned windows with ceramic and stucco frames, the lintels on the first floor decorated with palmette-crowned segmental arched pediments. On the ground floor, five round arches with rich ashlar panelling profiled by pilasters and quarter bars, redesigned as an arcade during reconstruction. Modern shop fittings behind the arcades. Double-leaf, richly moulded entrance door made of Pitschpine wood. References: UNSER BOCHOLT 1981, issue 3, p. 39; 2002, issue 4, p. 43.

66

Two-storey detached town villa in the Art Deco style. Built in 1924/25 for the factory owner Martin Josef Marlie (1875-1941). Architect Ludwig Beier, building contractor Sütfels & Cie. Acquired in 1926 by the manufacturer Max Herding, jun. (1882-1944). Owned by the city of Bocholt since 1988. Facade with three window axes to the north and four to the east, with two terraces above ground-floor kitchen and veranda extensions to the south. Labelled 1924 above one window.

Extended hipped roof, to the north and east with pointed gabled, three-striped dwarf houses, to the south and west with bat dormers. In the north-east corner of the ground floor, polygonal corner bay with pointed gabled wall crown. Rendered façades over rusticated basement with incised ashlar and subtle stucco decoration. The ground floor windows with framing in the form of an aedicula. Stucco monograms in their gables, including M. J. M. On the upper floor, the windows have wide, ornamented side frames and the window sills are decorated with agraffes.

All windows in the attic dormers, otherwise in the fanlights with glazing bars. Main entrance on the west side above an open staircase with wall pillars for a pergola, today covered by a vestibule. The original room layout has been largely preserved and the interior is of high quality. City museum since 1992. References: UNSER BOCHOLT 1981, issue 3, p. 39; 1996 issue 1, p. 25ff; 2002, issue 4, p. 29

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Two-storey, detached town house from the Wilhelminian era with a flat mansard roof. Built in 1895/96 by the master carpenter and building contractor Bernhard Gießing, Bocholt. Since 1909 residence and practice of the general practitioner Dr. med. Hugo Müller, from 1928 of Dr Paul Schmitt. Owned by Stadtsparkasse Bocholt since 1995. Brick facades to the south and east with two to two window axes, divided by cornices and embossed corner pilaster strips above a plastered basement plinth. Plaster facades to the north and west. Staircase extension to the west.

Windows of the main building with stucco decoration and plaster blinds under the parapets, round-arched on the ground floor, rectangular with perforated framing on the upper floor, with the exception of the west façade. On the south façade on the first floor, a blinded oculus between the windows. Console-supported balcony with balustrade to the right. Plastered extensions on the north and east façades.

To the north partly single-storey, partly two-storey. To the east as single-storey veranda and "waiting room extensions" with side entrance. Terraces above with wrought-iron railings. In the attic to the south and east a two-storey dwarf house, simplified in 1957 in the ornamental forms. Set back in the angle of the south-west corner, round-arched house entrance above an open staircase. On the south-eastern property boundary, largely original enclosure with wrought-iron lattice fence and gates. Art centre of the city of Bocholt since 1996. Lit.: UNSER BOCHOLT 1981, issue 3, p. 39.

71

Two-storey detached town villa in the neoclassical style with extended hipped roof. Built before 1895 for the factory owner Wilhelm Marlie (1839 - 1899). Since 1913 owned by the heirs of Wilhelm Marlie (including Adolf, Otto, Josef and Wilhelm Marlie). Later owner Dr med. dent. Hugo Tüffers. Plaster facades originally consisting of three to two window axes, on the ground floor with scored ashlar, divided by corner pilaster strips and cornices. The main cornice with dentil frieze.

The central axis is emphasised in the south: The main entrance with ashlar plaster framing, the window above framed by pilasters and crowned with a cornice. The other windows are emphasised with segmental arches and ornamented sills, on the upper floor with profiled frames and cornices, on the ground floor with simple plaster frames. To the north, a slightly recessed, two-storey extension with three to one window axis and side entrance from 1910.

Above this, roof terrace with baluster railings. To the east, terrace above a single-storey veranda extension from 1925. Ground floor shop fittings and similar extensions to the north and east from a later period. Today used as a residential and commercial building with pharmacy and doctor's surgery.

Lit:

UNSER BOCHOLT 1981, issue 3, p. 39.

Achim Wiedemann (11/02/10 11:26 am)

In order to make East German culture unforgettable, the Vereinigte Landsmannschaften Bocholt founded the " Förderkreis Ostdeutsche Heimatstube" on 20 March 1980. Dr Schwarte, then chairman of the Bocholt Heimatverein, was also elected to the board of the Förderkreis. The aim was to create a cultural and meeting centre where museum objects could be made accessible to visitors, where lectures could be held for further education and where group evenings could be held by the regional associations. Such a domicile was opened on the first floor of the building at Osterstraße 69 on 26 April 1981. Numerous gifts and loans, e.g. groups of traditional costumes, glass products from Bohemia, coffee services from Görlitz, coats of arms from beyond the Oder and Neisse rivers, old documents, paintings, photos and much more were made available. The East German Heimatstube developed into the East German cultural centre of the city of Bocholt and was an enrichment for the entire Bocholt population.

In 1992, the East German Cultural Centre was assigned to the Cultural Office of the City of Bocholt. At the end of 1996, the East German Cultural Centre and the Förderkreis were dissolved. Ownership of the building at Osterstr. 69 changed. The interior was remodelled. The museum artefacts are now stored in the opposite Stadtmuseum in the Magazin, Osterstr. 66. Some items on loan were returned to their owners. However, it is planned to integrate this collection into the permanent exhibition on the history of the town, covering the period 1945-1955, when the town museum is extended.

Lit:

Paulus
• Garon, Ostdeutsches Kulturzentrum hat sich bewährt, in: Zeitschrift UNSER BOCHOLT 39. Jg. (1988), Heft 1, p. 54,
Paulus
• Garon,10 Jahre Ostdeutsches Kulturzentrum der Stadt Bocholt, in: Zeitschrift UNSER BOCHOLT 44.
• Jg. (1993), Heft 1, p. 39,
Chronik
• des Bocholter Raumes 1975-1999, compiled by Wolfgang Tembrink (Bocholter Quellen und Beiträge, Band 9, hg. v. der Stadt Bocholt, Stadtarchiv)
• Bocholt 2001, p. 92 and 108,
Source
• : Information from Mr Georg Ketteler, Director of the Bocholt City Museum, in November 2007 Annemarie Rotthues (23.04.09 10:52 a.m.)

Johannes Ostendorf was born in Raesfeld on 15 April 1876, the son of a municipal surveyor, registrar, colonial goods merchant and small farmer. He attended the teacher training college in Büren from 1894-97. On 20 April 1897, he entered the teaching profession in Bocholt. Here he married Therese Valk in 1902, with whom he had four children. According to former pupils, he was a popular and successful teacher. On 1 April 1912, he became head teacher and principal of today's Fildekenschule.

At the beginning of 1917, he was transferred to today's St Joseph School as headmaster. He was also responsible for training young teachers and for the 2nd state examination in the administrative district of Münster. Johannes Ostendorf was talented in many ways, especially musically. He directed two choirs, at times also a wind orchestra in Aalten, was a member of the music and instrumental association, organist at St Joseph's Church and in 1927, together with the Borken school councillor Wolff, published a songbook "Unsere Schulmusik" for Westphalian primary schools.

- He played a major role in the founding and development of the town library and was its first director from 16 December 1924 until his death.

- Johannes Ostendorf is known to most Bocholters as the author of the socially critical drama "Denn Wäwedamp". The play in Bocholt dialect paints a picture of Bocholt's social history in the middle of the 19th century, when machine-driven looms appeared in Bocholt, making more and more weavers redundant. In the main characters of the traditional weaver Drömmelgoorn and the modern, profit-orientated factory owner Linnebink, Ostendorf brings old and new times together.

The play was written in 1922 and was performed with great success under Ostendorf's direction on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the founding of Bocholt. Since then it has been performed again and again, most recently initiated by the Westphalian Textile Museum in 2002.

Johannes Ostendorf died unexpectedly on 12 December 1937.

The city commemorated the teacher, musician and writer with the naming of Ostendorfweg on 26 April 1967.

With the naming of Ostendorfweg in 1967, the city commemorates the teacher, musician and writer Johannes Ostendorf (1867-1937).

Literature: Hans D. Oppel, Johannes Ostendorf - ein Leben für die Kultur, lecture on the occasion of the unveiling of the Ostendorf relief on 22 June 1982 in the Bocholt music school, in: UNSER BOCHOLT 34.Jg.(1983),H. 1, pp. 64-67. Wilhelm Seggewiß, Bocholter Straßen erzählen Geschichte, in: UNSER BOCHOLT Jg. 39 (1988), H. 2, p. 54. Gerhard Schmalstieg, Straßennamen in Bocholt nach nur hier bekannten Personen, in: UNSER BOCHOLT Jg. 55 (2004) H. 4, p. 53-72.

Easter is the most important festival in Christianity. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ and the victory over death.

Originally, people tried to fill the old customs with the new beliefs. The spring festivals of our ancestors were used. The exact date for Easter was not fixed until the Council of Nicaea in 325.

For more than a thousand years, Easter has begun on Easter night with the lighting of the Easter bonfire in front of the church. The Easter candle is lit and carried into the dark church in a solemn procession and three times "Lumen Christi" (light of Christ). Suddenly the church shines in bright light and the organ is played at full strength. The faithful light the Easter candles they have brought with them at the festively decorated Easter candle. In the following High Mass, the first Eucharistic celebration after Maundy Thursday, the congregation celebrates the resurrection of Christ.

The Easter candle burns during the 50-day Easter period in all church services and at baptisms.

In many Catholic families, it was customary to attend this solemn service. Breakfast was only eaten afterwards. Then the children were sent out into the garden to look for the colourful Easter eggs that the Easter bunny had hidden.

The custom of giving painted eggs as presents dates back to pre-Christian times. Even then, the egg was seen as a symbol of life. This makes the relationship to the resurrection clear. The discovery of a painted egg from the 4th century indicates an old tradition of egg colouring. The custom of decorating Easter eggs is also very old. The first reports date back to 1615 and colouring has since become a craft: These works of art can be admired at Easter markets and exhibitions.

Even today in the Bocholt area, especially in rural areas, it is still customary to light an Easter fire piled high on the evening of the first day of Easter. Easter carols and folk songs are sung. In some areas, young people go out long before Easter to collect brushwood and wood for the fire. The evening ends with the song: "Great God we praise you."

Easter Monday refers to the events immediately after the resurrection. It is the day of Emmaus.

As the Gospel reports, two disciples who left Jerusalem disappointed went to Emmaus on the 2nd day after Christ's death on the cross. This gave rise to the custom of taking an Easter walk in the awakening nature with the family or in a social circle on Easter Monday.

Johann Telaar (11.02.08 16:11)

16

Two-storey semi-detached house with extended pitched roof. Destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt in 1950/52 for the master carpenter Hermann Knuffmann. Architect Heinrich Zeitler. Brick building with three window axes each, horizontally divided by bands with dentil frieze under the main cornice and between the storeys. The central window axis is emphasised like a risalit, on the ground floor with house entrance and side windows in profiled walls. Above this, on the upper storey, a large staircase window spanning several storeys as a triplet window.

18

See house no. 16

24

Two-storey semi-detached house from the Wilhelminian era with extended pitched roof. Built around 1900 for Alois Beckmann. Destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt in 1946/59 by Wwe. Alois Beckmann ("Moder Beckmann"), then Bernhard Rösing. Architect Bernhard Valk. Street façade on two axes, the outer one emphasised like a risalit. The ground floor is clad with scored ashlar, the upper floor with yellow facing tiles, horizontally structured by cornices and ornamental bands. The outer window axis with round-arched entrance, the inner one with twin windows, on the ground floor basket-arched with moulded stucco framing, on the upper floor rectangular. The parapets on the upper floor have decorative tiles.

26

See house no. 24

40

Two-storey bourgeois residential building with a hipped gable roof to the west. Destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt in 1947/54 by the naturopath Ernst Laumann. Architect Heinrich Zeitler. Simple plaster façade with three asymmetrical window axes, horizontally structured by cornices and bands. The windows on the ground floor with moulded stucco frames, on the upper floor connected to each other with a continuous sill. Decentralised house entrance. Gabled extension to the east. In front is a ground-floor veranda with a terrace on the upper floor.

Achim Wiedemann (11.02.10 11:43 am)

1

Two-storey, originally detached town villa with hipped roof in the Art Deco style. Built in 1925 for the manufacturer Emil Donders (1876-1940), Roth & Budenberg, Bocholt. Architect Ludwig Beier. The symmetrical brick façades to the south and east, each on three axes, are divided by pilaster strips reminiscent of an Ionic colossal order. Double cornice in the form of an architrave under the roof base. On the south façade, the central axis on the ground floor is emphasised by a polygonal flat bay window with three windows between Doric half-columns, on the upper floor by two windows.

The flat bay made of ashlar with a pointed gabled mural crown is flanked by two windows surmounted by ashlar lunettes. Each window bears the monogram E. and D. (Emil Donders). On the east façade, the central axis on the ground floor is also emphasised by a polygonal oriel with five windows between Doric half-columns, on the upper floor by three windows. The oriel is also made of ashlar and flanked by two twin windows.

In front of this bay window is a terrace with a flight of steps leading to the garden. All windows with ashlar surrounds. Terrace above the east bay. During renovation in 1998, this terrace was disfigured by a modern superstructure, the rest of the house by extensive extensions. Today used as a residential and commercial building.

7

Two-storey detached corner house with a tent roof. Built in 1927 as a residence for the surgeon and head physician (1937-1959) at the Bocholt hospital Dr Egidius Jansen. Architect Karl Tangerding, Bocholt. The plain brick façades to the south and east, each with three window axes. Central main entrance to the south via a flight of steps with a brick arched wall. Richly moulded front door with lantern.

All windows with glazing bars and louvre shutters. Side entrance and functionally arranged windows to the west. Porch extension to the north with terrace above. Next to it, entrance to a basement garage from "Bollwerk". Today used as a residential building and doctor's surgery.

20

Two-storey detached town villa with hipped roof. Built around 1938 as a residential building with practice rooms for the ophthalmologist Dr Engelbert Decking. Simple brick building. The symmetrical street façade with a central main entrance framed by a natural stone wall above a double flight of steps.

The main entrance with original front door flanked on the right and left by three barred, functional windows. Above this, three windows with louvre shutters on the upper floor. To the west, ground-floor surgery extension with hipped roof and side entrance via open staircase.

22

Two-storey detached town villa with pitched roof. Built in 1935 as a residential building with practice rooms for the internist Dr Josef Meyer. Architect Karl Tangerding, Bocholt. The symmetrical brick façade facing the street with a central main entrance framed by a natural stone wall with segmental arch and original front door with lantern.

To the right and left of the entrance, one narrow and one wider, tripartite window, only preserved in the original on the right-hand side. Above this, five windows with louvre shutters on the upper floor. To the west, ground-floor surgery extension with monopitch roof and side entrance via open staircase.

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Two-storey detached corner house with pitched roof. Built in 1932 as a residence for the building contractor Fritz Biermann. Architect Willy Hallen, building contractor Fritz Biermann. Brick building with symmetrical south façade with three window axes. Three-storey central risalit with flat roof, central covered main entrance flanked by two narrow windows and original front door.

The west façade on the upper floor with three functionally arranged windows, the two on the left with louvre shutters. On the ground floor, next to a further window, a flat bay window with bevelled corners. The original enclosure with simple railings between low wall pillars has been preserved.

Achim Wiedemann, (11/02/10 11:53 am)

An Otto de Bocholte is first mentioned in Lübeck in 1219.

In 1229, this Otto is admitted to the Lübeck cathedral chapter as a subdeacon.

In 1234 he is a deacon and canon.

Between 1234-1254, he was one of the excommunicated clergymen who had campaigned for the Benedictine monks to remain in St John's Monastery in Lübeck. Benedictine monks lived in St John's Monastery with nuns in a relaxed monastic discipline. Archbishop Gerhard of Bremen intervened against this decline in morals and moved the monks to Cismar near Grömitz (today the district of Ostholstein). Nuns of the strict Cistercian order moved into St John's Monastery in Lübeck.

In 1255 Otto de Bocholte is again named as canon of the Lübeck cathedral chapter.

In 1259, as canon, he votes against Johann III von Tralau (1260-1276), who was elected 10th Bishop of Lübeck by the majority of the cathedral chapter.

In 1281 Otto de Bocholte became parish priest at St Peter's Church and dean of the Lübeck cathedral chapter. He was thus at the head of all the canons of the cathedral chapter and was lord of the court for all the clergy of the Lübeck churches.

Otto de Bocholte died in 1288 at an advanced age and was buried in Lübeck Cathedral.

Günther Selke (26.07.10 14:45)

This street is in memory of Otto Hensel (1909-1979).

Rolf Thuilot, An indomitable fighter for workers' rights. From the life of the resistance fighter and trade union secretary Otto Hensel (13 January 1904 to 4 August 1979), in: Unser Bocholt, 47.Jg. (1996),H.2, p.46-48.

This ring was named after the Lord Mayor and honorary citizen Otto Kemper (1900-1974).

Literature: Wilhelm Seggewiß, Bocholter Straßen erzählen Geschichte, in: UNSER BOCHOLT Jg. 40 (1989), H. 3, p. 64. Gerhard Schmalstieg, Straßennamen in Bocholt nach nur hier bekannten Personen, in: UNSER BOCHOLT Jg. 55 (2004), H. 4, pp. 53-72.

This street was named after the headmaster of Biemenhorst School, Otto Moritz (1905-1999), in 2006.

The Overberg School is a municipal special school specialising in learning. It is named after the Münster school reformer Bernhard Overberg and has the task of providing educational support to pupils with significant learning difficulties who are unable to work adequately in a normal school.

The beginnings of the school date back to 1921, when two "auxiliary school classes" were set up at primary school systems II and III. By 1932, the number of classes had risen to six; now an independent school, it was initially housed in the school barracks of the former grammar school on Realschulstraße, but then moved to part of the "Schule am Wasserturm". After further moves, the school was given its own building in the "Knabenhaus" of the Diepenbrockschule on Herzogstraße. This building was completely destroyed on 22 March 1945.

For the then headmaster, Rector August Wessels, and his colleagues, another period of travelling through various school buildings in Bocholt began. The school was first given rooms in the Fildekenschule, then in the St-Georg-Gymnasium and later in the rebuilt Mariengymnasium. Here the school had six classrooms, a headmaster's room, a staff room and a room for teaching materials.

On 14 January 1955, the headmaster at the time, Rector Gustav Klinke, approached the city with a request to construct a separate building for the special school after 15 relocations. In August 1957, construction work began on the site next to St Joseph's Church. The inauguration of the finished building was celebrated on 16 February 1959.

After Rector Klinke, Paul Schmude managed the school from 1962 to 1966, followed by Edmund Berghorn from 1966. During this time, the "Auxiliary School" became the "Special School". The number of pupils grew to over 200, so that a second building was constructed on Don-Bosco-Straße in the 1971/72 school year. The school now also accepted pupils from the former Liedern-Werth district, as well as pupils from Isselburg. The number of pupils soared to over 400.

In 1981, headmaster Edmund Berghorn retired and was succeeded by Wiltrud Auge as headmistress. In 1987, the school moved into a new extension with specialised rooms for art, textiles and handicraft lessons. Wiltrud Auge retired in 1996 and Jörg Bicker became the new head. In 1999, the school moved into an urgently needed extension with three classrooms and an IT room. Nevertheless, classes had to be moved out or accommodated in pavilions until 2007, when an extension of 8 rooms on Don-Bosco-Straße put an end to the lack of space.

Since 2007, the Overbergschule has been a special school specialising in learning. Currently 304 children attend the school. The offer today includes the reliable half-day school (until 1.25 pm), the 13plus programme (free care after 1 pm) and the open all-day school.

Literature: Elisabeth Bröker, Sonderschulen in Unsere Bocholt - Schulenheft 1979, 30.Jg.(1979),H.3, p.24-25. Chronicle of the Overbergschule founded by August Wessels, continued by the respective head teachers, Bocholt 1945 ff., Mskr. in the possession of the school.

Hans Nienhaus (07.07.10 10:58)