District Borken celebrates 50 years - cheers and challenges at the same time!

District Borken celebrates 50 years - cheers and challenges at the same time!

On January 7, 2025, the Borken district announced that it will celebrate its 50th anniversary next spring. The festive occasion is planned for March 14, 2025, with District Administrator Dr. Kai Zwicker announced a special appreciation of the anniversary. The district was founded in 1975 in the course of the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia and emerged from the former districts of Ahaus and Borken as well as the independent city of Borken.

Although the anniversary is to be celebrated, the financial framework of the activities is kept “narrow” due to the tense budget situation. This means that the New Year's reception must be omitted in January 2025. The ceremony takes place in the Borken district house and will attract guests from public life in Westmünsterland. NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst will speak to those present on this occasion.

partner city of Wroclaw/Wroclaw

As part of the anniversary celebrations, the 25th anniversary of the partnership with the Polish district of Wroclaw/Breslau is also recognized. This partnership was created from a violating initiative of the Bundesheimatgruppe Wroclaw-Land, an association of the former German population of the room.

Additional information on the development and development of the Borken district can be found on the official website of the district. So the Presse-service on the background of the municipal reorganization in NRW. It was also explained that the reorganization of the Borken district 50 years ago, in 1972, was initiated by the Köstering Commission, such as the bbv-net . The process was described as a "severe birth", whereby a working group of the Commission met in the Ahauser Kreishaus and the Ahaus senior director Karl Rudolph explained his ideas for reorganization.

For more information, interested citizens can reach the Karlheinz Gördes press contact on 0 28 61 / 681-2424.