Category: Locations
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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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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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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 and joint activities. Among other things, the possibilities for joint travel themes and routes were explored and co-marketing activities were discussed. Reformation and fortress construction…
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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 the German Fairy Tale Route and many other cultural themes. This gave Schwalm-Touristik the opportunity to discuss the possibilities of fortress tourism together with our…
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Ohrid (MK): New network member comes from North Macedonia
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 monasteries in the beautiful old town and the Samuel’s Fortress above the town, which dates back to Czar Samuel in the 11th century. After an…
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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 as well as representatives from Stade, Königstein, Terezin (CZ), Torgau, Dresden and the fortress network. Among other things, joint marketing instruments for the new regional…
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Malta (MT): FORTE CULTURA® Pilot Tour successfully carried out
Author: Dr. Hans-Rudolf Neumann As part of a FORTE CULTURA pilot tour to Malta and Gozo, initial contacts were established with the Maltese state heritage organization HERITAGE MALTA. The participants of the pilot tour, coming from four European countries, were impressed by the renovation and restoration work carried out on the fortifications in Malta and…
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Berlin (DE): German-Chinese co-operation in fortress tourism and marketing signed
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 for fortresses and an accompanying research project at the University of Karlsruhe were presented. The results of the project can be used to create reliable…
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Fort Konstantin, Koblenz (DE): Workshop “The classicist fortress of Koblenz on the FORTE CULTURA® cultural route”
Under the leadership of Koblenz’s Head of Cultural Affairs Dr Margit Theis-Scholz, the workshop brought together around 20 interdepartmental stakeholders to discuss the future of Koblenz Fortress in connection with the European cultural route FORTE CULTURA®. The result is the formation of a working group con- sisting of the departments of culture, tourism, marketing, business…
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Germersheim (DE): Tour guides honoured with FORTE CULTURA® certificate
Four long-standing tour guides from the town of Germersheim have successfully completed their qualification as tour guides with a FORTE CULTURA® certificate. To mark the occasion, Mayor Marcus Schaile presented Brigitte Hoffmann, Kurt Burger, Andreas Baus and Erich Fleischer with their certificates last Friday. “I congratulate you warmly and am delighted that you will now…
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Königstein, Saxony (DE): Forum Cultural Heritage Elbe Fortresses
How can the 25 historic fortresses along the Elbe support each other in marketing themselves to tourists? This was the key question at a conference that brought together 15 representatives of important Elbe fortifications from Germany and the Czech Republic at Königstein Fortress.
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