Bocholt textile museum
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The LWL-Museum Textilwerk Bocholt is an industrial and textile museum in the town of Bocholt in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). It is one of the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), an association representing local authorities in Westphalia and Lippe. The museum comprises two sites on either side of the river Bocholter Aa. Its focus is on the technical, social, economic and cultural aspects of textile production in the Münsterland region, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2011, the City Council adopted a policy resolution to create an "urban cultural quarter on both sides of the Bocholter Aa between the city centre and Aasee, Industriestraße and Don-Bosco-Straße". In the same year, the name "Textilwerk" was chosen for the museum’s two sites. Since the end of 2018, a 13-metre-wide bridge over the Aa, the "Podiumsbrücke", has connected the two sites. The Aa is to be further renaturalised. Some parts of the area are earmarked for housing development.
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