With the funding project " Places of Remembrance Oder-Warta", the project partners City of Seelow (lead partner), City of Kostrzyn nad Odra and Municipality of Słońsk pursued the goal of jointly maintaining and strengthening the unique landscape of remembrance in the Oder-Warta region and to also enhance its value as a special feature for tourism. The measures planned in the project should, among other things, strengthen and complement the tourist offers of existing memorial sites, link them thematically and market them nationally under a new cross-border tourist brand. This will increase the market presence and visitor appeal of all sites, with economic effects for the participants.
Various outputs were realised in joint cross-border project work.
Cross-border tourism brand
Around 200 places of remembrance in the Oder-Warta region offer individual and multi-layered insights into the eventful regional history. Taken together, they have great potential for sustainable tourism offers with international appeal. The Oder-Warta region should be understood as a common, cross-border historical cultural space. The special feature of the project was to promote the exchange of the different memory-cultural perspectives of Germany, Poland and internationally.
As a multi-perspective remembrance landscape for the special history of the German-Polish border region, especially from 1944 onwards, the Oder-Warta Region offers unique and authentic destinations for educational and remembrance tourism, cultural tours, exchange and dialogue. "The common concern and content guideline of the new brand can be traced back to the statement "Remembrance connects". The goal is a common peaceful future and a deeper mutual understanding.
Cross-border network of places of remembrance
Places of remembrance, monuments and museums actively cooperate within the framework of a joint regional brand to create a common space for remembrance, encounter and discovery that supports a better understanding of the multi-layered worlds of remembrance on both sides of the border and openly transports them to the outside world.
Further project outputs:
- Analysis and categorisation of memorial sites in the Oder-Warta region
- Development of a common database
- Marketing concept
- Encounter, exchange, supraregional networking and cooperation
- Development of multilingual marketing tools (travel guide, image brochure, flyers, posters, roll-up displays, website)
Three new places of encounter and remembrance
In the project, three historic buildings were also renovated in order to preserve the buildings and put them to new uses. Three new tourist contact points were created for the cultural tourism brand "Remembrance connects", through which visitors can be informed and directed to the region.
Villa Wagener Kostrzyn nad Odra
Communication Centre and Meeting Place in Villa Wagener Kostrzyn nad Odrą
Geschichtsbahnhof Seelow
Geschichtswerkstatt und Dokumentationszentrum im ehemaligen Bahnhofsgebäude der Stadt Seelow
Project News Sites of Remembrance
Projektworkshop "Touristische Entwicklung und transnationale Zusammenarbeit"
Am 19. Julli 2021 kamen die Projektpartner in Seelow mit Vertretern von zwei Europäischen Kulturrouten zusammen: der Liberation Route Europe (Europäische Route der Befreiung 1944-45) sowie FORTE CULTURA (Europäische Kulturroute der Festungsmonumente), um Aspekte der touristischen Entwicklung und transnationalen Zusammenarbeit für die Erinnerungsstätten der Oder-Warthe Region zu besprechen.
Eröffnung Kulturhaus Słońsk
Das ehemalige Kulturhaus Słońsk wurde im Rahmen des Interreg VA Projekts "Stätten der Erinnerung Oder-Warthe" vollständg saniert und zu einem barrierefreien Begegnungs- und Dokumentationszentrum ausgebaut.
Deutsch-polnisches Förderprojekt zur Erinnerungskultur im Raum Oder-Warthe gestartet
Erinnerung Oder-Warthe verbindet: 53 Vertreter von Erinnerungsstätten, Politik und regionalen Tourismusverbänden informierten sich im Schweizerhaus Seelow erstmals über die Inhalte des Interreg VA BB-PL Förderprojekts „Stätten der Erinnerung Oder-Warthe“.
