Friendship Visit from Twin Town

Arriving on the eve of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day they attended the Wimborne Minster Folk Festival, visited Lyme Regis, the Sculpture by the Lakes and spent time on the Beach. They met up with the Rector of Wimborne Minster, The Revd Canon Andrew Rowland and the Parish Priest from St Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church, Father Joseph Darline and had Dinner at the Stocks Inn  at Furzehill with Members of the Wimborne-Ochsenfurt Twinning Association.

In essence it was a private visit but as the Leader of the trio from the Bavarian Town Burkard Bahr said at the Dinner “he noted that it marked the 35th Anniversary of the Twinning”. The Twinning Document was signed in
November 1989 by the then Town Mayor of Wimborne Minster Cllr Mrs Margery Ryan and the Ochsenfurt Burgermeister Peter Wesselowsky.  However the link with Wimborne goes back to AD 740 when a number of Nuns left Wimborne to evangelise Germany with St. Boniface. Over the past 35 years there have been many exchange visits between the two Towns and hopefully these will go on for years to come.

Anyone interested in finding out more about the Association should contact the Chairman Cllr Ann Roberts on 01202 880218.