Welcome to our town’s internet site. Ahaus is an attractive and active town in western North Rhine-Westphalia with an extremely high standard of living. Almost 39,000 residents live here, predominantly within the town’s four walls and in 6 municipal dis-tricts. The town is nestled into the parklands of North Rhine-Westphalia, which have lots to offer in terms of leisure and recuperation. Harmonious, small-town diversity is the product of a varied and primal landscape, coupled with a well-developed network of cycle paths and footpaths, a village character and attractive urban offerings. The redesigned town centre provides a chic setting for excellent shopping.

Ahaus is a cross-regional centre of education. Eight primary schools, two middle schools and two secondary schools, two grammar schools, a special needs school, three vocational schools, an extremely successful cross-regional vocational institution with an associated technical academy, numerous other specialist schools, an adult education centre and a music school provide a highly varied and highly qualified educational and further educational offering.

I also warmly invite you to a rich cultural offering. Visit our beautiful baroque moa-ted  castle in the heart of the town, a former residence of the prince-bishops of Münster, historic villas, local heritage centres, museums and well-preserved wind-mills and watermills. Live concerts, an impressive and sophisticated theatre pro-gramme and a rich palette – from exhibitions to cabaret – provide a varied offering that’s in tune with enthusiastic audiences of all ages.

The last 3 decades have seen the formerly protectionist textile and match manufac-turing industry turn into a highly diversified, highly qualified, high-performance and internationally focussed industry. Nearly 14,000 people are employed in our town today, particularly in the areas of timber, plastics, metalworking, chemistry and the service sector. An extremely well-developed and well-supplied infrastructure in the industrial areas, a direct motorway connection and fast links to the passenger airports at Münster-Osnabrück and Düsseldorf make the town attractive for businesses.

I warmly invite you to be our guest - on your visit to our internet site and perhaps in Ahaus soon as well.