Interreg VA funding project 2019-2023
With the "Sites of Remembrance OderWarthe" funding project, the project partners aimed to City of Seelow (lead partner), City of Kostrzyn nad Odra and Municipality of Słońsk The aim was to jointly maintain and strengthen the unique landscape of remembrance in the Oder-Warthe region and to capitalise on it as a special tourist feature. The measures planned in the project should, among other things, strengthen and supplement 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 the sites, with economic effects for those involved.
Various outputs were realised in joint cross-border project work.
Cross-border tourism brand
Around 200 places of remembrance in the Oder-Warthe region offer individual and multi-layered insights into the region's eventful history. Taken together, they have great potential for sustainable tourist attractions with international appeal. The Oder-Warthe region should be understood as a shared, cross-border historical cultural area. The speciality of the project was to promote the exchange of the different perspectives on the culture of remembrance in Germany, Poland and internationally.

As multi-perspective memory landscape The Oder-Warthe region offers unique and authentic destinations for educational and remembrance tourism, cultural trips, exchange and dialogue for the special history of the German-Polish border region, especially from 1944 onwards. "The common concern and the content guideline of the new brand can be summarised in the statement "Memory connects" back together. The aim is a peaceful future together and a deeper mutual understanding.
Cross-border network of places of remembrance
Places of remembrance, monuments and museums are actively working together as part of a joint regional brand to create a shared space of remembrance, encounter and discovery that supports a better understanding of the multi-layered worlds of remembrance on both sides of the border and openly communicates them to the outside world.
Further project outputs:
- Analysis and categorisation of memorial sites in the Oder-Warthe region
- Development of a common database
- Marketing concept
- Meeting, exchange, supra-regional 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
Three historical buildings were also renovated as part of the project in order to preserve the buildings and put them to new uses. Three new tourist attractions were created for the cultural tourism brand "Remembrance connects", which can be used to inform visitors and attract them to the region.
Project news "Sites of Remembrance Oder-Warthe"
Final conference "Sites of Remembrance Oder-Warthe"
The new network and the "Remembrance connects" Oder-Warthe brand are intended to present the unique history of the German-Polish border region as a multi-perspective landscape of remembrance to an international audience. In addition, three historical buildings have been [...]
Project workshop "Tourism development and transnational cooperation"
The workshop held on 19 July 2021 focused on the places of remembrance in the Oder-Warthe region as a basis for tourism development and transnational cooperation. The Liberation Route Europe (LRE) is a European [...]
Opening of the Słońsk Culture Centre
On 14 February 2020, Mayor Janusz Krzyśków opened the new cultural centre in Słońsk in the presence of over 100 invited guests. A conference hall with interpreting booths, exhibition rooms, a library, archive rooms and digital [...]
German-Polish funding project on the culture of remembrance in the Oder-Warthe region launched
Project conference "Sites of Remembrance Oder-Warthe" Investments for thematic expansion, increased attractiveness, modern communication and effective marketing of the culture of remembrance 53 representatives from memorial sites, politics and regional tourism associations gathered at the [...]
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