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Located 4 kilometers south of the border with the Netherlands, Bocholt is a town in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

It was Bishop Dietrich III von Isenburg who had given Bocholt city rights in the year 1222. The city had then flourished in the 15^th century. It is a manufacturing town and during the 19^th and 20^th century, Bocholt was a town of textile industry. There are currently several successful textile manufacturers in town. The town is also a regional center for shoppers from the West-Munsterland and also from the neighboring rural and small town areas of the Netherlands.

Bocholt’s coat of arms shows a beech tree that has become the symbol for the city since the 13^th century. Bocholt in English roughly means beechwood. The town is the last stop on a 25-minute 2-way-1 track train route that starts in Wesel traveling north to Bocholt. From Wesel, one can transfer to other trains that travel south to Dusseldorf International Airport. The city is accessible and many tourists would definitely want to visit the place.

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