Category: Upper Rhine
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Belfort (FR): Belfort fortress system becomes FORTE CULTURA station in France
Belfort was fortified from 1687 according to Vauban’s plans and subsequently extended. The fortress played a particularly important role in the 103-day siege of Belfort in 1870/71, one of the last major battles of the Franco-Prussian War. The centrepiece of the fortress is the Belfort Citadel on a rocky outcrop above the old town, with…
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Berlin (DE): FORTE CULTURA at ITB 2025
Around the world in three days – International Tourism Fair Berlin: The ITB is one of the largest tourism fairs in the world and a good opportunity for FORTE CULTURA to […]
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Strasbourg (FR): FORTE CULTURA Annual Congress 2024
Cultural heritage fortified monuments –a building block in the history of the DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT in Europe 8 – 10 April 2024, Strasbourg (FR) The history of democracy is the history of upheaval, of revolution, of the struggle for freedom and self-determination, of the struggle for participation and the involvement of all in political decision-making. Then…
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Berlin (DE): FORTE CULTURA at the ITB 2024
For the second time after a long Corona break, the International Tourism Fair – ITB – 2024 took place again at the exhibition centre under the radio tower in Berlin at the beginning of March. by Dr. Hans-Rudolf Neumann Over a total of three days, there was an opportunity not only to find out about…
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Hornisgrinde (DE): FORTE CULTURA Fortress Cluster Upper Rhine Project Meeting
19 partners of the German-French cooperation of fortresses and museums along the Upper Rhine met at the Grindel Hütte Hotel-Restaurant on Hornisgrinde to discuss current topics related to cross-border collaboration. Guests of honor included Katrin Schindele, Member of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament and Deputy Chair of the Committee on Economy, Labor, and Tourism, and Reinhard…
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Germersheim (DE): Aktion Mensch inclusion project completed
As part of the “#1 Barrier Less” funding programme of the Aktion Mensch lottery, FORTE CULTURA and the fortress town of Germersheim have already developed a circular route for blind and visually impaired people in 2021, which provides information about the fortress town of Germersheim on Braille signs and in audio files at 4 stations.…
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Ingolstadt (DE): FORTE CULTURA Regional Workshop
The meeting room in the tower of the Ingolstadt Army Museum, dating from 1420, provided the perfect setting to discuss the future of the Bavarian state fortress in connection with FORTE CULTURA. The workshop, attended by tour guides and representatives of the city of Ingolstadt as well as guests from Germersheim, Ulm, and Kronach, was…
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Ingolstadt (DE): Fortified City Becomes New FORTE CULTURA Station in Bavaria
The Bavarian state fortress of Ingolstadt was expanded over five historical periods into the large fortress system seen today. On both sides of the Danube, there are partially very well-preserved fortifications spanning five centuries, representing the Renaissance fortress, the post-Thirty Years’ War expansion, the Neoclassical fortress (reconstruction after demolition by Napoleon), as well as an…
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Rastatt (DE): Rastatt Defence History Museum (WGM) becomes FORTE CULTURA Station on the Upper Rhine
The Rastatt Museum of Military History (WGM) is located in the south wing of the Residenzschloss in Rastatt and deals with modern German military history. Covering an area of around 1,500 square metres, the museum offers an overview of German, and in particular south-west German, military history from 1500 to 1918 and shows the connection…
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Alsace (FR): Tourisme Destination Alsace (ADT) becomes a FORTE CULTURA member
Alsace Destination Tourisme (AD) is the travel agency of the European Community of Alsace and is responsible for the development and promotion of tourism, especially in cross-border co-operation. Due to the chequered French and German history of Alsace, there are many fortified monuments in the region. Together with FORTE CULTURA, the ADT would like to…
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Germersheim (DE): 5th symposium on the expansion of fortress cooperation on the Upper Rhine
Youth exchange and inclusion was the theme of this year’s symposium on the Upper Rhine. A good 30 representatives of the Upper Rhine fortress monuments gathered in the town hall of the fortress town of Germersheim to find out about project ideas, funding opportunities and best practices in the field of youth encounters and inclusion.…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fortress town Germersheim (DE): 2nd symposium for the extension of fortress cooperation in the German-French border region Upper Rhine
Around 40 experts, tour guides and representatives of fortified monuments gathered in Germersheim at the beginning of July, including fortress cities such as Ulm, Landau (DE), Wissembourg, Strasbourg (FR), Feste Emperor Wilhelm II at Mutzig (FR)
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