The best city hikes and walks around Rhede

The "Landhaus am See" unfortunately no longer has a lake. The lake has recently been filled in. But a new biotope is being created. The entire freed-up area is being transformed by the city of Rhede into a floodplain landscape.

The Rheder Bach is being further renatured here. The lake has just been filled in and new floodplains will be created.

The "Akademie Klausenhof" (AK) Foundation renovated the listed St. Gudula Monastery in Rhede, and it was inaugurated on October 9, 2022, after 10 years of planning and more than two years of construction. (Source: klausenhof.de) The primary user of this building is the Caritas Association for the Bocholt Deanery. It now houses a shared apartment for eight people with disabilities, a community meeting place for residents and the city center, a day care center for seniors, a Caritas contact and outreach center, and a social center. In addition, 15 social housing units suitable for one- and two-person households have been created and are rented out by the AK. The chapel located in the monastery will remain as a worship space and will be used jointly with the St. Gudula Parish. Access to the chapel is via the main entrance. A new bridge over the Rheder Bach stream, accessible from Schlossstraße, was built. This also provides access to the existing hiking parking lot, which was expanded to accommodate 90 spaces. The total investment was planned at just under €7.5 million, a significant portion of which was provided by the AK Foundation. This entire project was only possible thanks to the long-term extension of the existing leasehold agreement by the St. Gudula Parish. (Source: Catholic Church, Borken District Deanery, January 14, 2019)

1. The former St. Gudula Convent was built between 1923 and 1925 for the Steyler Missionary Sisters in a simple neo-Baroque style. The building is plastered and features a central projection and porch. It is located on the former castle courtyard from the early 13th century, which the Lords of Rethe built on this side of the stream. (Hence the street name "Burgplatz" (Burg Square) near the City Museum near the church). 2. A simple two-story house, also called "Burg," was built on this site as early as 1844. Miss Gertrud Sieverding bequeathed it to the St. Gudula Parish after her death in 1920. The parish, in turn, donated the property to the Steyler Missionary Order in 1922, which added a large, three-wing, horseshoe-shaped monastery and chapel adjacent to the 1844 house. (This is the most architecturally valuable part of the complex and is therefore a listed building.) It was consecrated on August 5, 1925, and used by the sisters as a retreat house and convalescent home. During World War II, the convent housed a military hospital, and after the war, a home economics school was established. Under the guidance of the sisters, young women learned the basics of home economics. In the early 1960s, a boarding school and a school building were built on the convent grounds. Since 1983, the Klausenhof Academy from Dingden has owned the building under a leasehold. Not all of the nuns left Rhede in 1983. The small group that remained moved into the Arnold Janssen Convent, a villa on the Südesch River. (Source for 2: Book "Greetings from Rhede" by Christian Böing-Messing and Bernfried Knipping) PS: I've included a postcard from the book of the Rhede "castle" = house from 1844 in the photo gallery.

A lovely ice cream parlor in the heart of the city, on the edge of the historic market square. There's always something going on here in the summer.

A lovely ice cream parlor in the heart of the city, on the edge of the market square. There's always something going on here in the summer.

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Since June 2024, the Children's Fountain has been barrier-free (it previously had a border). All the figures were also polished at the bell foundry in Gescher. The rods (made of copper-colored steel) now stand in a shallow depression, on which three boys (made of bronze) climb. The two girls (also made of bronze) sit on a natural stone block (total weight of girl + stone = >1 ton).