Bernburger and Rheinenser on joint tour of the Emsstadt
Normally, meetings between town twinning associations serve the purpose of an intensive exchange of information. This is actually no different in the partnership between Bernburg (Saale) and Rheine (Ems).
But today both sides were mainly silent with enthusiasm.
The board of the town twinning association had also worked out an extensive program for the second day of the visit of the partners from Bernburg.
In the morning, they went to the Falkenhof. Here museum employee Oliver Raß led the guests through the exhibition “100(0) years of salt from Rheine”. This exhibition focuses on the people who produced salt and profited from the salt trade. Bold dreamers, aristocratic experts, headstrong crusaders, a researcher and a photographer are introduced during the guided tour, as well as the working world of a pre-industrial company, which is unusual from today’s point of view.
For the exhibition, numerous deeds, maps, plans, documents and photos were “brought to light” that have rarely or never before been presented to the public. These include highlights such as the founding contract of the Münstersche Salinensozietät with signatures and seals of the noble investors and several parchment documents of the early 17th century, which also clearly show the political and economic interests in the trade with salt.
In the early afternoon, the deputy mayor and chairman of the building committee, Karl-Heinz Brauer, took over the tour. The tour first went to the area along Mittelstraße. Here Brauer explained the development of the site administration barracks area into future housing in the Europaviertel. The tour continued to the Eschendorfer Aue, where the former air force barracks are barely recognizable. House after house has literally shot up here in recent years. The speed of this development also amazed the guests and hosts.
Both the Bernburger and the Rheinenser were completely flabbergasted when they had the opportunity to visit the new “Aqua Reni” combination pool. It is not yet open and it is hoped that it will be in a few months.
But even now, during a tour with Verena Reimann and Marcel Brüggemeyer from Rheiner Bädern, one could get an idea of what a great “lighthouse project” for Rheine will be.