Category: General
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Cochem (DE): Bundesbank bunker as new FORTE CULTURA station on the Moselle
The Bundesbank bunker in Cochem was a carefully guarded and camouflaged secret of the FRG for decades. During the Cold War, 15 billion Deutschmarks were stored here on around 1,500 square metres as secret emergency currency for emergencies. Since 2016, the former nuclear defence bunker has been an exciting museum of German history during the…
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Bellheim (DE): Queichlinie strengthens regional network on the Upper Rhine
Now that the municipality of Bellheim has joined the FORTE CULTURA network, a large section of the Queich line has become a new stop on the European Cultural Route. The Queich is a small river that rises in the Palatinate Forest and flows into the Rhine near Germersheim. In the 18th century, the Queich lines…
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Königstein Fortress, Saxony (DE): FORTE CULTURA General Meeting 2021
29 members and guests from 7 countries met at the 2021 FORTE CULTURA General Assembly at Königstein Fortress (Saxony). Under the leadership of Dirk Röder, the Executive Board and Scientific Advisory Board presented a highly impressive performance report on the activities and results of the last 15 months. Highlights included the positive network development, project…
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Karlovac (HR): Workshop HERITAGE AND PROMOTION
As part of the Interreg – IPA CBC project FORTITUDE a specialist workshop on the subject of heritage and promotion was held in the fortress city of Karlovac in October under the direction of Dirk Röder and Rafael Deroo. Project partners are the Sibenik Cultural Fortress with The ideal fortress town of Karlovac (both HR), the…
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Bergen op Zoom (NL): Workshop “Forts Unchained”
In Bergen op Zoom came EFFORTS with Liberation Route Europe and FORTE CULTURA to discuss the role of fortresses in the Second World War. Fortresses were often used as concentration camps and prisons during the Second World War or were the scene of heavy warfare. Many of these sites are now memorials and offer exhibitions…
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Dömitz (DE): Study project of the Warsaw University of Technology on Dömitz Fortress
Under the title “Reintegration, renovation and upgrading of the tourist functions of Dömitz Fortress”, students from Warsaw University of Technology visited Dömitz Fortress at the beginning of the winter semester. All areas of the fortress and former ideal fortress town were analysed in a four-day survey in order to develop concepts and proposed solutions over…
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‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL): Fortified town with citadel becomes the first FORTE CULTURA centre in the Netherlands
The fortified city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch for short) is the capital of the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant and boasts an extraordinary fortified heritage with its city walls and citadel. Den Bosch is also extremely innovative in its approach, as can be seen in the visitor centre in the Bollwerk Sankt Johann, a multi-storey car…
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Ziegenhain (DE): European Fortress Summer
FORTE CULTURA meets renew Europe in the fortress and confirmation town of Ziegenhain. At the end of August, the town of Ziegenhain and the Renew Europe political group took the European Fortress Summer as an opportunity to organise a lavish summer party on the parade ground in the fortress town. Host Engin Eroglu (MEP) welcomed…
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Four á Chaux, Lembach (FR): New FORTE CULTURA centre in Alsace
The Four à Chaux in Lembach is an underground fortification of the Maginot Line from the 20th century. Managed and organised by the Association des Amis de la Ligne Maginot de Lembach, tens of thousands of visitors marvel at the extensive complex every year. Many exciting features, from the retractable machine gun cupola to the…
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Germersheim (DE): 4th symposium on the expansion of fortress cooperation on the Upper Rhine
The Upper Rhine region is one of the European regions with the most fortified monuments from 2000 years of history. Since the fortified town of Germersheim joined FORTE CULTURA in 2017, a Franco-German cooperation network for fortress tourism has been established in the Upper Rhine region. The 4th symposium dealt with the question of how…
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Pula (HR) 2021: Sustainable valorisation of fortified cultural heritage – European best practice
Online evaluation conference on European best practice 6. Mai 2021, Pula (HR), hosted by FORTE CULTURA and Juraj Dobrila Universität in Pula (HR) The joint scientific committee FORTE CULTURA / EFFORTS organised an evaluation conference on the SUSTAINABLE VALORISATION OF FORTRESS HERITAGE under the patronage of the Juraj Dobrila University in Pula (HR). The online…
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European Fortress Summer 2021 launched with press conference on the Upper Rhine
The European Fortress Summer 2021 was launched at a press conference in Germersheim on 15 April. The campaign developed by FORTE CULTURA in 2018 to market summer events in fortresses will be implemented together with EFFORTS from this year onwards and will be given a new label. The European Fortress Summer includes the “Elbe Fortress…
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New marketing instruments “Cultural heritage fortress monuments on the Upper Rhine”
On the initiative of the fortress town of Germersheim, supported by the PAMINA Eurodistrict and the Baden-Alsace-Palatinate Tourist Association (Vis-à-Vis), FORTE CULTURA has developed a fortress flyer with a map, a stamp pass and a travelling exhibition on behalf of the Upper Rhine Marketing Association. The marketing tools are now available from the 30 participating…
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New FORTE CULTURA station(s) on the Upper Rhine (DE-FR)
We welcome the regional fortress group “Fortresses and defence history on the Upper Rhine 1929-1999” with the Dettenheim Bunker Museum, the Hausach Bunker Tour, the Hornisgrinde Bunker, the Neumühl Camouflage Bunker, the Emilie Museum Bunker (all DE) and the Musée Mémorial Walbourg (2MCLADN, FR) as new FORTE CULTURA sta- tions in our network. The fortress…
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Büdingen (DE): Fortress town of Büdingen becomes FORTE CULTURA station
With the signing of the membership application by Mayor Erich Spamer, the town of Büdingen has be- come the latest FORTE CULTURA member. The Upper Hessian fortress town not only has a pictur- esque old town with half-timbered houses and a for- tified castle, it has also been protected for centuries by a well-preserved massive…
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Sandomierz (PL): New FORTE CULTURA centre on the Vistula
Sandomierz is located on the western bank of the Vistula in the Holy Cross Voivodeship. The formerly fortified old town with its central town hall square is home to buildings from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. It is one of the most beautiful and best preserved in the whole of Poland. The fortified…
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Büdingen (DE): Fortress town of Büdingen becomes a FORTE CULTURA site
With the signing of the membership application by Mayor Erich Spamer, the town of Büdingen becomes the newest FORTE CULTURA member. The Upper Hessian fortress town not only features a picturesque old town with half-timbered houses and a fortified castle, but has also been protected for centuries by a well-preserved massive city wall with rondels.…
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Elbe Fortresses (DE-CZ): New FORTE CULTURA Image Folder
In a cross-border cooperation, the Elbe fortresses Grauerort, Dömitz, Magdeburg, Torgau, Dresden, Pirna, Stolpen, Königstein, Terezín, and Prague have developed and financed new FORTE CULTURA marketing tools. An attractive image folder for the Elbe fortresses was produced in three languages, providing an overview of the cultural heritage of fortress monuments along the Elbe. An additional…
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Dęblin (PL): New associate member on the Vistula
The Polish town of Dęblin is located east of the Vistula River in the Lublin Voivodeship. Commissioned by Russia, the Ivangorod Fortress was constructed starting in 1832 and became one of the strongest Tsarist fortresses securing the Vistula crossing. A citadel directly on the Vistula and a bridgehead on the left bank were built in…
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EFFORTS (BE): Annual Congress held online
The Belgian partner network EFFORTS held its annual congress in 2020 as an online event. Under the patronage of the cities of Oudenaarde (BE) and Šibenik (HR), around 60 members and partners followed a series of engaging presentations, including contributions from the European Institute of Cultural Routes. The main focus of the congress was a…
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FORTE CULTURA Contact Tour – Fortress Heritage Poland
FORTE CULTURA Vice President Agnieszka Żurawska-Tatala visited ten Polish fortress sites during a one-week contact tour to introduce them to the FORTE CULTURA Cultural Route. Her itinerary included Modlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Zamość, Przemyśl, Krzyżtopór, Sandomierz, Łańcut, Dęblin, and Lublin. The largely positive discussions at the various locations demonstrated a strong interest in promoting fortresses in…
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