{"id":184,"date":"2025-06-09T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/?p=184"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:49:27","slug":"corona-folgen-fuer-festungsmonumente-edit-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/sachartikel\/corona-folgen-fuer-festungsmonumente-edit-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona consequences for fortress monuments - Edit 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting fortress museums and monuments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conferences in Corona times - 4th symposium on the expansion of the Upper Rhine fortress cooperation on 11 August 2021 in the Germersheim town hall with over 30 participants<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factual article, published in the excursion guide Westwalltag, July 2021
Author: Dirk R\u00f6der<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything that was said in last year's article still applies. Corona still demands a lot from us. Fourth wave, fifth wave, new mutations - nobody can say what's coming. Humans are adaptable, so they react. Depending on their individual constitution, initially to the vaccine serum. This (and the right app) gives them access to the vaccinated group. This in turn gives them access to restaurants, exhibitions and museums, to a reasonably normal cultural life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortresses and museums benefit from this. Now experts in drawing up and implementing hygiene plans, visitor guidance systems and \u201ecorona-safe\u201c cultural programmes, they are able to meet the continuing high demand. So they are surviving and adapting. With digital ticket systems, online bookable visiting time slots, digital culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, employees, unskilled labour and seasonal workers, e.g. in the areas of trade fair and event management or catering, were not so lucky. They had to reorient themselves in many places. In the catering industry in particular, many no longer saw any future at all and changed careers completely. This is now leading to a noticeable shortage of labour in restaurants, caf\u00e9s and takeaway chains across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we have learnt from Corona<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, flexibility, through adaptation and improvisation, through appropriate strategic planning. Hygiene and self-protection continue to be the only effective measures against infection at present. Perhaps also patience or composure in the face of constantly new reports or the confusion of new rules and regulations every week at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But digitalisation in any case. Digital communication, digital cultural offerings, digital worlds of experience as an extension of real cultural offerings, digital admission, ticketing, control and measurement systems and much more are the big winners of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a great opportunity for the cultural heritage of fortress monuments, because digitalisation marks the next milestone in its evolution and thus secures its future. Because digital tools open up new target groups, ensure diversity and the removal of barriers, and revolutionise the dissemination of information. The coronavirus paved the way for this evolutionary step to be taken and completed much more quickly across the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digitalisation is also a major step forward for FORTE CULTURA. The new self-image of digital communication has reduced the need for business travel by up to 90%. In addition, communication takes place at shorter intervals, allowing projects to be driven forward in an efficient and goal-orientated manner. The cultural route and the fortress network have been strengthened by the pandemic, although tourism was not possible or only possible to a very limited extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Networking in times of pandemic using the example of the Upper Rhine fortresses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The example of the Upper Rhine fortress region shows impressively what was and is possible despite all the restrictions. On the initiative of the fortress town of Germersheim, supported by FORTE CULTURA, the PAMINA Eurodistrict and the Baden-Alsace-Palatinate Tourist Association (Vis-\u00e0-Vis), a fortress community has been created as part of a cross-border project that currently includes 30 fortress monuments and museums on both sides of the Franco-German border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See FORTE CULTURA Regional Profile Upper Rhine: www.forte-cultura.eu\/oberrhein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Franco-German image flyer with a regional map was jointly developed and printed in March 2021 with a print run of 100,000 copies. In addition, a stamp pass with a competition was developed and printed in a print run of 15,000 copies. Furthermore, a travelling exhibition on the \u201eFortress heritage of the last 350 years in the Upper Rhine region\u201c with 12 boards was developed and produced. All of this was achieved in many online meetings and without meeting in person once. The travelling exhibition even had to be \u201esmuggled\u201c across the Franco-German border in times of contact bans and border closures so that it could be opened at the Mus\u00e9e de l'Abri de Hatten (FR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the marketing campaign \u201eFortress Summer Upper Rhine 2021\u201c was prepared as part of the \u201eEuropean Fortress Summer\u201c and finally successfully launched on 15 April with a hybrid press conference. Over 90 events have been and will be organised in the participating museums and fortresses on the Upper Rhine and communicated using multimedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were also 2 online workshops on the topic of \u201eSocial media for fortress monuments\u201c, together with the FORTE CULTURA Elbe fortresses. The 4th symposium on the expansion of fortress cooperation on the Upper Rhine, on 11 August 2021 in Germersheim, was the first face-to-face event of the Upper Rhine fortress cluster since the start of the pandemic, and the topic \u201eGuided tours and travel development with FORTE CULTURA\u201c was correspondingly future-oriented. On 9\/10 October 2021, the \u201eFortress Summer Upper Rhine 2021\u201c will hopefully come to a glittering conclusion with a major fortress festival in Rastatt (DE). The consistently positive feedback on marketing tools, social media activities and events so far gives us confidence for the coming season, with or without the next wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes on. At least that's my impression when I correspond with fortress monuments all over Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you move, you change your position.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wie sich die Corona Pandemie auf Festungsmuseen und Monumente auswirkt Tagen in Corona Zeiten \u2013 4. Fachtagung zum Ausbau der Festungskooperation Oberrhein am 11.08.2021 in der Stadthalle Germersheim mit \u00fcber 30 Teilnehmer*innen Sachartikel, ver\u00f6ffentlicht im Exkursionsf\u00fchrer Westwalltag, Juli 2021Autor: Dirk R\u00f6der Alles, was im letztj\u00e4hrigen Artikel gesagt wurde, hat weiterhin Bestand. Corona verlangt uns immer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sachartikel","tag-kulturerbe-festungen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eccofort.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}