Category: General
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Open Monument Day 2020 – digital
On Open Monument Day 2020, there were once again many exciting monuments to discover. Due to the COVID-19 situation, numerous sites innovatively invited visitors to take part virtually. Our member fortresses, such as the Federal Fortress of Ulm and the Citadel of Mainz, took this opportunity to draw attention to themselves and to their valuable…
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Launch of the FORTE CULTURA promotion “Fortress of the Week”
As part of the campaign “FORTE CULTURA – Fortress of the Week,” one full member fortress is featured each week through several posts on social media. The aim of the campaign is to raise public awareness of the fascinating cultural heritage of fortress monuments and to showcase special highlights at our member sites.Facebook, Instagram
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European Fortress Day 2020
The European Fortress Day (EFD) is organized by the FORTE CULTURA partner EFFORTS (European Federation of Fortified Sites) and will take place virtually in 2020 with a new concept. European Fortress Day is part of the FORTE CULTURA initiative European Fortress Summer (www.fortress-summer.eu). All members, network partners, and non-members are invited to participate in this…
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FORTE CUTURA®: Application for certification as “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” submitted
The application for certification of FORTE CULTURA® as a “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” was submitted in Luxembourg just in time for the deadline. FORTE CULTURA® is thus officially a candidate for certification, alongside 15 other cultural route candidates. To be certified, cultural routes must meet defined criteria, which will be reviewed by…
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Srebrna Góra (PL): Silberberg Fortress becomes a new network member
The Srebrna Gora fortress is the highest mountain fortress in Europe. Built between 1765 and 1777, it reinforced the defence of the Prussian state borders in Lower Silesia. The Silberberg fortress system consists of the bastion “Fort Donjon” – the heart of the complex, as well as the surrounding secondary fortresses of “Wysoka Skala”, “Fort…
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Berlin (DE): General Assembly decides to change the name and statutes of the network
At this year’s virtual Annual General Meeting, far-reaching resolutions were passed that will have a lasting impact on the development of our network and cultural routes. The most striking change is the name change from “European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network e.V.” to “FORTE CULTURA e.V.” with the subheading “Fortress Monuments Cultural Route Network”.…
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Berlin (DE): Cooperation agreement with EFFORTS expands network base and gives FORTE CULTURA members a voice in Brussels
The European Federation of Fortified Sites (EFFORTS) network, based in Brussels, was founded in 2017 in the Spandau Citadel. As a lobby organisation, EFFORTS is the interface between European institutions and fortified monuments or networks that deal with the preservation and use of the European cultural heritage of fortified monuments. In addition to practical work…
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FORTE CULTURA launches Facebook and Instagram account
FORTE CULTURA is now using social media to increase its reach Facebook and Instagram. While the Instagram account is aimed more at the general public, the Facebook account is more inward-looking and describes current events and network activities.
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Magdeburg (DE): Route of Reformation and FORTE CULTURA conclude cooperation agreement
The globally significant era of the Reformation and the development of early modern fortress architecture, although separated in time, belong to a shared historical epoch and influenced one another. These historical commonalities now form the basis of a cooperation agreement between the two cultural routes. The aim of the collaboration is to generate impulses for…
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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 in fortified monuments, links to current support programmes in Germany as well as ideas and suggestions for concrete measures from various perspectives.
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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
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 telecommunications bunker in the former GDR as a Strausberg culture bunker accessible to the public. In autumn 2019, the first stage saw the approximately 300-metre-long…
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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 the Elbe Cycle Route and our network met at the Albertinum in Dresden. The aim of the consultation was to further develop the cooperation of…
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Stade (DE): Grauerort Fortress becomes a new network member on the Elbe
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 auspices of the Festung Grauerort e.V. association. The association signed its network membership on 25 February 2020, making it the fourth member of the FORTE…
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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 addition to many new network contacts, there was also in-depth coordination in preparation for the co- operation between the two European cultural routes, which is…
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Upper Rhine (DE/FR): Great response to the commemorative weekend “75 years of Unternehmen Nordwind”
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 the border between the Saar and Rhine opened their doors on the weekend of 11 and 12 January 2020. 22 different events commemorated the warlike…
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Dömitz (DE): The ideal fortress town of Dömitz becomes a new network member on the Elbe
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, which was built in the Renaissance style. Mayor Reinhold Suhrau signed the membership in our network at the end of December, thus strengthening the FORTE…
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Rüsselsheim (DE): City of Rüsselsheim becomes new network member on the River Main
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 Town and Industry Museum and a fortress café. Lord Mayor Udo Bausch signed the membership agreement at the end of November, which now comes into…
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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 routes to the historical sites of the Second World War in Europe. Remy Praud (Director LRE) and Dirk Röder (European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing…
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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 elected to the board of the European network. EFFORTS is a lobby organisation for fortresses based in Brussels and does important work for the preservation…
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