Herzlich Willkommen
zur Informations-
veranstaltung
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Welcome!
Pilot seminar
Project THETRIS THEmatic Transnational church Route development
with the Involvement of local Society
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County Meißen & County Nordsachsen
characterized by:
-> beautiful landscape, surrounded by river Elbe
& nature reserves
-> Agriculture (fruits/vegetables/wine)
-> Industry (steel, chemical industries,..)
Church districts of Lutheran church Saxony
760.000 church members
765 parishes
1600 churches and chapels
Source: http://www.evlks.de/landeskirche/kirchgemeinden/index.html#karte
-> Tangible/intangible cultural heritage
- eg. Meissen White gold, Traditional events (eg. Saxon Wine & Fish
catching festivals, harvest festival, …), Personalities
- Unique sacral monuments
-Extraordinary church music (Organ/choirs)
Herzlich Willkommen
zur Informations-
veranstaltung
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Set up a network of different actors
in order to create a supporting
environment to preserve cultural
heritage and to make the local
church route sustainable
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Pilot activity in
Saxony
1. Network (Goals/Actors)
2. Regional church route, Map + Stamp system
3. Lessons learnt
4. Additional positive effects/Sustainability
-> set up a network
-> create a bicycle map + stamp
system
THETRIS – Set up a Network
Initial situation: Existing church route with 5 churches (about 40,5 km) Basis for pilot activity
•To preserve cultural heritage by involvement of local actors, members of church & tourism
(local identity)
•To open churches for tourism and to link church with tourist institutions as well as to
create a common working basis
•To gain awareness (church members) for the chances of linking motives of churches and
tourism to inspire more people
•Increase level of awareness for cultural heritage
•Stimulate interest (from inhabitants and tourists) for the sacral heritage of the region -> Open
churches for visitors, which:
follow religious motives would like to “feel” the church as a place of spirit, silence and
meaningful effects
are interested into its history, art and further specialities of the
churches (tangible/intangible cultural heritage)
•To strengthen the touristic section economy (eg offer an incentive to tourists, to stay longer
than one night in this area)
THETRIS – Pilot activity-Goals
1. SG+Selection of actors - 1stmeeting with External experts and associated partner
- Which actors/local networks should be involved (according to decisions, competencies, pilot area…)
2. RWG- Opening - Introduction of project and pilot
- Fixing rules to network (meetings on a regular basis (number of meetings is related to tasks), where are the meetings,
who is coordinating them, goals…)
3. Meetings on a regular basis (8+2) - brain storming according to implementation, presentation of current project status, make decision, partly like workshop
-> according to activities, new members were invited
Actors in the project: about 50
THETRIS – Set up a Network-Steps
3 regionalman
The size of the network depends on the number of actors as well as the (local
and thematic) range of the network and can change during the network
operation.
Specialisation (eg Working Group sign posting, sustainability,…)
SG
RWG
LWG LWG
LWG
F2F
F2F
F2F
F2F
Map+Stamp system
(incl.church route)
Involvement
of residents
THETRIS – Set up a Network/ Involved actors
3 regionalman
Priests/ Parish council
Lutheran church Saxony
Municipalities (Mayors, Building authorities, Press departments, city marketing,..)
Administrative districts (+Experts for bicycle path of the county)
Regional management institutions (LEADER/ILE Areas)
Church Tourism
Experts
Tourist associations Tourist informations
Further (Service provider, Museum,…)
Public authorities
THETRIS – Set up a Network
Connection of existing networks
3 regionalman
Church district Leißnig-Oschatz
Church district Grossenhain/Meissen
Church
Tourism
Administrative district North Saxony
Administrative district Meissen
Generate joint -Activities -Touristic elements -Promotion (internal/external)
To preserve cultural heritage
Church cycle route in numbers: - Length: about 130 km - 5 stages (going by bike:
from a single starting point/ from different destinations)/
different level of difficulty - 26 churches - About 35 sites - 6 different landscapes - 2 bank sides of the river Elbe
THETRIS – Set up a Network: Regional church route+Map
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Cycling:
sign posting, quality of roads
Bicycle ride:
Route guidance, gastronomy
Bike+Experience Tourism:
Attraction,
History & Culture
Experiences
THETRIS – Route as emotional experience
Selection of the route (according to SWOT, expert for bike-routes of the county, RWGmembers):
- using already existing routes (good passibility, already arranged by communes, suitable for bikers, easier for additional sign posting,.. ) - routes with no more than 2 topics - no well exploited bike paths -> connection to rural areas - no big distances between churches - gastronomy facilities/ service provider in near distance Selection of churches (according to priests, RWGmember):
- Lutheran churches - Churches in rural areas - Churches directly on the route (no long distances) - Open to public/ at least possibility nearby to provide stamp&information -> 26 churches
THETRIS – Pilot activity:
Map of church route combines:
- route and connection to further cycle paths
- list of stages and recommandations for visits
- Level of difficulty/ length,…
- Information about all churches/history/ architecture/contact/ places for stamps
- Tourist information/ contacts (Which local actors are in which place?)/
( Public transport/ ebike stations/ bike rental/ bike services/ gastronomy/
accomodation facilties)
- Project information and connection to international church route
- GPS-datas
Collect -> Get added value
Church Tourist informations
THETRIS – Set up a Network: Regional church route+Map-> Multilingual
Museum
Cultural Events
Guided tours
Regional products
Service provider…
Representative of churches to establish further contacts
THETRIS – Lessons learnt
Time!
Select members of Working Group carefully
Face-to-Face Meetings
Positive (additional) effects of network beside project goals:
- sign posting of the church route (the whole path) with
additional financial sources of communes
- sign posting of churches: 16
(6 financed by church parish Wildenhain)
- engagement of adminitstrative districts +External
experts
- integration into tourism concepts of the region-
additional common promotion activities with
churches +regional managements
(eg Day of the Saxon, Heritage day)
THETRIS – Positive effects
- Creation of an Incentive for tourists and inhabitants, which connects the region and its cultural
heritage as basis for further activities (eg App system, guided tours, link to intangible heritage
(Organ playing), school classes,…)
- Revive the route or parts of it
- More attractiveness of churches and region
- Churches are not only open for church services, visitors can experience religion and culture
of the region by themselve
-> Local identity will be strengthened by the creation of awareness for the highlights of the region
- Gain more visitors by offering concrete tours (rural areas&cultural heritage are more visible and
interesting now) ->additional sales
- Multilingual communication materials -> route can be also experienced by international
guests
THETRIS – Future chances
The historic output of a community, both tangible and intangible, is the foundation
of all cultural routes. The notion of the ‘community’ can be broadly interpreted,
from a local community, to national and the global community. Managing a site on a cultural route on the example of the Wooden Architecture Route in Malopolska
(Anna Franik, Malopolska Tourist Organisation; Consulted by Pawel Mierniczak, Director of MOT)
“This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF.”
THETRIS.
Key to the hidden potential of our region!
Thank you!
ZTS GmbH
Jana Barth
Industriestraße A11
01612 Glaubitz
Tel.: 0049 35265 51102
Mail: [email protected]
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