Category: General
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Berlin (DE): Handout “C19 consequences” for fortress monuments
The network office provides a comprehensive information and strategy paper on dealing with the “C19 consequences” in fortified monuments. It contains information and recommendations for ensuring the safest possible conditions […]
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Berlin (DE): Orte der Geschichte e.V. strengthens network
The Berlin-based association organizes guided tours and excursions to architectural remnants from the Cold War era (barracks, airfields, and bunker complexes).
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Berlin (DE): Orte der Geschichte e.V. strengthens network
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The Berlin-based association organises guided tours and excursions to architectural legacies from the Cold War era (barracks, airfields and bunkers). The association is also committed to preserving the most modern […]
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Dresden (DE): Project Consultancy Elbe-Festungen
At the end of February, representatives of the fortresses in Stade, Königstein, Terezín (CZ), Torgau, Pirna, Magdeburg and Dresden (here Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen gGmbH) as well as […]
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Stade (DE): Grauerort Fortress becomes a new network member on the Elbe
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Fort Grauerort, a Prussian fortress pearl on the Elbe, was built in the 19th century and developed into an attractive cultural location in the Hanseatic city of Stade under the […]
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Brussels (BE): LRE Conference and LREXPO 2020
The Royal Museum of the Armed Forces in Brussels was an impressive venue for the Liberation Routes Europe (LRE) Annual Conference and Expo 2020. Dirk Röder represented FORTE CULTURA®. In […]
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Upper Rhine (DE/FR): Great response to the commemorative weekend “75 years of Unternehmen Nordwind”
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In memory and remembrance of the many victims of the last major German offensive in the West, known as “Unternehmen NORDWIND”, 75 years ago, 18 fortifications on both sides of […]
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Dömitz (DE): The ideal fortress town of Dömitz becomes a new network member on the Elbe
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Dömitz Fortress is widely known along the Elbe. What is far less well known is that the fortress is actually the citadel of the former fortified ideal town of Dömitz, […]
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Rüsselsheim (DE): City of Rüsselsheim becomes new network member on the River Main
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Rüsselsheim Fortress is located directly on the River Main and is now the second former Hessian state fortress in our network after Ziegenhain. The fortress is home to the Rüsselsheim […]
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Petrovaradin (RS) 2019: International Conference “Fortresses of Tomorrow”
In late August 2019, the historic Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia, hosted an interdisciplinary international conference titled “Fortresses of Tomorrow: Balance between Cultural Heritage Safeguarding and Entertainment.”
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Brussels (BE): FORTE CULTURA© meets Liberation Route Europe
Fortress monuments and the Second World War have many points of contact. The European cultural route “Liberation Route Europe”, certified by the Council of Europe in 2019, leads along remembrance […]
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Antwerp (BE): EFFORTS Annual Congress 2019 “Fortified Heritage and Water, The European Dimension”
The fortified city of Antwerp hosted this year’s general meeting of EFFORTS (European Federation of Fortified Sites), during which Dirk Röder (European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network e.V.) was […]
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Cologne (DE): Symposium “One Hundred Years of Cologne’s Green Lung – From Historical Defences to a Future-Oriented Green System” at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne
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The Polish curator of the FORTE CULTURA® Scientific Advisory Board, Marcin Gorski, gave the introductory lecture during the symposium “One Hundred Years of Cologne’s Green Lung – From Historical Defence […]
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Berlin (DE): FORTE CULTURA® meets Route of Reformation
Following on from the discussions at the annual meeting of the cultural routes in Sibiu, representatives of the Routes of Reformation and FORTE CULTURA® met in Berlin to discuss interfaces […]
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Ziegenhain (DE): Conference on the cultural heritage of fortified monuments in Hesse and Thuringia
Ziegenhain is not only an impressive fortress town and therefore a stop on the FORTE CULTURA cultural route, it is also part of the GrimmHeimat and Rotkäppchenland network, touches on […]
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Ohrid (MK): New network member comes from North Macedonia
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Ohrid is a town in the south-west of the Republic of North Macedonia on Lake Ohrid on the border with Albania. The town is known for its medieval churches and […]
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Magdeburg (DE): 2nd Forum Cultural Heritage Elbe Fortresses
Rainer Nitsche, Deputy Mayor of Magdeburg in Department III Economy, Tourism and Regional Cooperation, opened the “2nd Elbe Fortress Cultural Heritage Forum”, which was attended by the Mayor of Dömitz […]
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Sibiu (RO): 9th Annual Advisory Forum of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
Around 80 representatives of European cultural routes, the Cultural Routes Institute from Luxembourg and the EPA* member states met for the annual meeting of the Council of Europe’s cultural routes in Sibiu, Romania.
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Malta (MT): FORTE CULTURA® Pilottour erfolgreich durchgeführt
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von Dr. Hans-Rudolf Neumann Im Rahmen einer FORTE CULTURA – Pilottour nach Malta und Gozo kamen erste Kontakte mit der staatlich maltesischen Denkmalschutz-Organisation HERITAGE MALTA zustande. Die aus vier europäischen […]
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Berlin (DE): German-Chinese co-operation in fortress tourism and marketing signed
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Representatives of the Chinese city of Shouzhou, the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network, ECCOFORT and ICOFORT signed a memorandum of understanding in Spandau Citadel on the development of friendly and cooperative relations for fortress tourism and marketing.
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Germersheim (DE): 3rd symposium on the expansion of fortress cooperation Upper Rhine
This year’s symposium focussed on cross-border cooperation between the fortress monuments on the Upper Rhine. The first results of the “Vis-á-Vis” (Baden-Alsace-Palatinate) tourism community’s project to develop regional tourism modules […]
