The twinning moves from strength to strength with an average of nearly 1,000 people travelling each year. Many private exchanges have followed from the initial contacts. No statistics exist for these holiday visits but it is thought to run into thousands. Future Commitment Celebrating the past and at the same time securing the future was the main aim of the jubilee festivities. Past successes were reviewed with nostalgia and the future was awaited with great optimism, when in 1996, members of the council of the new Wrexham County Borough made it an early priority to re-affirm their commitment to one of the most successful twinnings in Europe.
Old friendships continue and mature, and new exchanged are being welcomed by the councils.
Much has taken place between Wrexham and the M rkischer Kreis over the years. There have been so many successes, many friendships formed, much has been learnt about each community, and in its own way, the partnership has made a contribution to international relations. There is no doubt that partnerships and exchanges help us to understand other peoples. Misunderstandings and prejudices are broken down, wrong ideas are corrected. When the original partnership agreement was signed in 1970, the architects could not have foreseen the huge success of the contact or the fact that the Wrexham-M rkischer Kreis friendship would be held up as a model of partnership arrangements.