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City cycling 2025

Bocholt gets back on its bike!

Bocholt is getting back on its bike - for the "City Cycling" competition from 1 to 21 May. The aim is to motivate as many citizens as possible to leave their cars behind and cycle as many kilometres as possible to help protect the climate.

From the original idea of getting people to cycle as an alternative to the car, the Climate Alliance 's CITY CYCLING has now developed into a nationwide competition. Over 90 per cent of municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia take part. Bocholt is also taking part again this year, as are all the municipalities in the Borken district.

"Bocholt is and will remain a cycling city", says Mayor Thomas Kerkhoff. "With CITY CYCLING, we want to show once again how active and committed our citizens are - for their own health and for the climate. The campaign is about more than just collecting kilometres: It's about community and making Bocholt visible as a vibrant and sustainable cycling city."

Participants not only benefit personally from exercise and health promotion, but also make an active contribution to climate protection. In addition, attractive prizes await the most active cyclists.

Targets for 2025

Last year, Bocholt took second place nationwide in the 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants size category with a total of almost 700,000 kilometres cycled by 3,000 active participants. The city wants to build on this success this year and is once again aiming for a top position.

The previous year's figures, both in terms of the number of participants and the number of kilometres cycled, were once again exceeded in 2024. This results in the targets for 2025: significantly more than 3,000 participants cycling well over 700,000 kilometres! So, JOIN US!

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Bocholt took second place again in 2024

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Cycling is in the blood of the people of Bocholt! Last year, Bocholt took second place in the overall ranking for medium-sized towns (50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants) in the nationwide CITY CYCLING initiative.

3,013 active cyclists in 197 teams cycled for the city from Westmünsterland. The people of Bocholt were once again very hard-working and covered a total of 691,931 kilometres in 50,810 journeys.

St Bernhard School won the nationwide SCHULRADELN 2024 competition

The competition within the competition! This is the name of the NRW school cycling competition. Pupils, together with their parents and teachers, can collect kilometres for the city of Bocholt, but also for their own school or class/year group. Further information is available at School Cycling NRW.

With 175 kilometres per participant, the Katholische St.-Bernhard-Schule achieved the most kilometres among primary schools in last year's state competition, taking first place among primary schools nationwide. Together with their parents and teachers, the pupils cycled a total of 13,472 kilometres.