Regional 2004
The Regionale 2004 was a project of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to promote the tourist and cultural infrastructure in the region to the left and right of the Ems between Warendorf and Rheine , which was developed, implemented and carried out by the planning company Regionale 2004 GmbH of the same name, based in Telgte Friedrich Wolters was headed. 37 cities and municipalities in the districts of Warendorf and Steinfurt and the city of Münster participated in the project.
Among other things, a cycle path through the Emsauen from Warendorf to Rheine was signposted and partly re-created, the EmsAuenWeg . The DA Kunstkloster Gravenhorst in Hörstel has been transformed into an art and artist house. In Rheine, a saltworks building of the Gottesgabe saltworks was restored. The Bentlage monastery was also integrated here. Emsdetten redesigned its disused sewage treatment plant into a water park. An ice cellar has been restored in Altenberge and a bridle path suitable for the disabled has been created. The Museum for Westphalian Literature Haus Nottbeck in Oelde has become an international meeting place for literature and music . The Warendorf district museum in Wadersloh - Liesborn has been expanded considerably.
All cities on the Ems have redesigned their banks and banks. Numerous events on the river ran through the summer of 2004.
Another large project is the restoration and redesign of the baroque park Bagno in Steinfurt - Burgsteinfurt . Here elements of the French and English gardens have been restored around Lake Bagno. Among other things, two- to four-row avenues were restored and the only free-standing baroque concert gallery in Europe was given an appropriate framework by means of baroque axes and the “Bagno Square”.
The communities of Neuenkirchen and Wettringen have jointly implemented the "Jump over the gravel bank" project. Here the quarry ponds, Offlumer See and Haddorfer Seen , created by the gravel and sand mining, were developed for gentle tourism .
As a correspondence project outside the actual project area, the Renaissance zoo of Raesfeld Castle was also restored.