Welcome to Bocholt!

Bocholt is located in the district of Borken, west of Münster and directly on the Dutch border. The city offers many possibilities in all directions: For example, the popular shopping cities of Enschede and Venlo can be reached by car in about an hour, while Münster, Düsseldorf and the airports of Münster/Osnabrück (FMO) and Weeze are each about an hour's drive away. The district town of Borken is half an hour away by car.

Bocholt also has a railway station. From there, a regional express train departs for Wesel, where you can change trains for Düsseldorf, Cologne and Arnhem, for example.

Tip: The Münsterland is a cycling region! 4,500 kilometres of cycle paths offer you almost unlimited possibilities in the city and in the countryside: you can commute to work comfortably by bike and go on great tours with friends and family.

The city of Bocholt consists of eleven districts: Barlo, Biemenhorst, Bocholt (centre), Hemden, Holtwick, Liedern, Lowick, Mussum, Spork, Stenern and Suderwick. Between 1000 and 5000 of the 71,000 inhabitants live in each of the ten incorporated districts around the city centre.

On a walk through the medieval town centre you can still see some traces of the 800-year history of the town, for example the historic town hall on the market square. Around this town centre with its many shops, cafés and restaurants are residential and industrial areas. To the south-east of the old town is the Bocholt Aasee with many leisure facilities and a beach café.

Even though rental and purchase prices overall are following the general real estate trend, there are still many niches to be discovered in Münsterland for building, buying or renting. In the rural areas of Münsterland, the average rent per square metre is between five and seven euros, and the average purchase price per square metre for flats and houses is 2100 euros.

You want to rent a flat or buy or build a house in Bocholt? On the city's website you can find the current rent index and addresses of the housing associations as well as all information about planning and building. In addition, you can view information about the development of turnover and prices on the property market in the district of Borken in the property market report.

You can get fresh food in Bocholt not only in the big supermarkets, but also several times a week at the market. On Thursdays, you can even buy fruit, vegetables and other products from the region after work. If you need a change of pace, you can visit the weekly market in Winterswijk, just over the border in the Netherlands.

If you want to shop for clothes, shoes, books, jewellery and sports accessories, you're not only in good hands in Bocholt city centre: In the Shopping Arkaden you can browse in around 45 stores. Would you like even more choice? The Designer Outlet Ochtrup is only an hour's drive away, and Roermond is about an hour and a half away.

Our tip for cyclists: In Bocholt there are many specialist bicycle shops with a large selection of bicycles, e-bikes and accessories.

In Bocholt, children up to the age of six are optimally cared for in around 40 day-care centres and kindergartens run by various providers. On the Kitaportal Bocholt you will find an overview of all the facilities and can use a detailed form to search directly for the daycare centres that best suit you and your child.

The educational opportunities in Bocholt offer all kinds of possibilities - from the Hauptschule or Realschule certificate to the Abitur or the Bachelor's or Master's certificate:

• Ten primary schools
• Two secondary schools
• Two Realschulen
• One comprehensive school
• Four grammar schools
• One college of further education (Abendrealschule and Abendgymnasium)
• Three vocational colleges
• Two special schools (mental development and learning)
• One university of applied sciences

Owner-managed medium-sized companies, well-known corporations and the largest industrial park in North Rhine-Westphalia: Bocholt as a business location is diverse and always on the move. Major employers include Siemens AG and its subsidiaries Flender and Gigaset Communications, as well as Grunewald, a toolmaking company and manufacturer of plastic components. The 300-hectare Bocholt Industrial Park is home to 300 companies with more than 7000 employees.