{"id":2359,"date":"2024-02-05T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:03:52","slug":"memorials-and-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/gedenkstaetten-und-mahnmale\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance sites and memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fortresses as places of remembrance<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Fortresses and fortifications always had a primarily military function. They were built to keep attackers at bay and later often repurposed to hold prisoners. Many monuments are therefore closely linked to a long history of military conflicts and human tragedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, monuments, memorials and exhibitions remind us of the fateful twists and turns of the past. The ruins of the old town and fortress of Kostrzyn nad Odra<\/strong> (K\u00fcstrin) (PL) is still in the same condition as it was left in 1945 after the hostilities between the German Wehrmacht and the Red Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fortified ideal city Terezin<\/strong> (Theresienstadt) (CZ) stands as an important memorial to the Holocaust crimes of the Second World War. Also Sonnenstein Castle<\/strong> in Pirna (D), Fort No. IX in Kaunas<\/strong> (LIT), Fort Breendonk<\/strong> in Willebroek (BEL) or the Oberer Kuhberg Fort at the Federal Fortress in Ulm deal with the Holocaust as memorials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Route of military history and remembrance in Alsace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of its history and the vicissitudes of war, Alsace carries with it the weight of those tragic times, but also of reconciliation and the building of lasting peace, fertile ground for unity and the headquarters of the European institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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80 years since the end of the Second World War in fortresses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The end of the Second World War in 1945 took place in the heavily contested fortifications of the 20th century in Europe, just as older fortifications were also the scene of events at the end of the war. Whether liberation, destruction or a place of refuge for the civilian population, fortresses also influenced the fate of many people at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the commemorative year 2025, FORTE CULTURA organised commemorative initiatives with various partners to raise public awareness of this part of history in fortresses. Educational and commemorative events in European fortresses conveyed the historical events and contexts to a broad public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poster and flyer commemorative events 2024-2025 on the Upper Rhine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Get to know the fateful history of fortresses with FORTE CULTURA<\/span><\/h2><\/div>
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\"Daugavpils<\/a><\/div>

Daugavpils (LV)<\/a><\/h3>

Fortified Ideal City: the last bastion-style fortress in the world to be completed!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Dettenheim-Ru\u00dfheim<\/a><\/div>

Dettenheim-Ru\u00dfheim (DE)<\/a><\/h3>

Military bunker: Museum Westwall Bunker Dettenheim-Ru\u00dfheim (DE)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Fortresses and defence history on the Upper Rhine 1870-1999 (DE-FR)<\/a><\/h3>

FORTE CULTURA Fortress Group: Fortresses and defence history on the Upper Rhine 1870-1999 (DE-FR)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Secret architectures<\/a><\/h3>

The invisible fortress monuments of the world wars and the atomic age Secrecy, camouflage and distraction characterised the construction of fortress monuments in the 20th century. Whether camouflaged gun emplacements of the Swiss...<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Griesheim-sur-Souffel<\/a><\/div>

Griesheim-sur-Souffel (FR)<\/a><\/h3>

Military bunker: Nellkopf Infantry Base I52 (FR)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Haguenau<\/a><\/div>

Haguenau (FR)<\/a><\/h3>

Military bunker: fortress (large shelter) of the Maginot Line<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Hornisgrinde<\/a><\/div>

Hornisgrinde (DE)<\/a><\/h3>

Military bunker: former French command bunker Hornisgrinde (DE)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Kehl-Neum\u00fchl<\/a><\/div>

Kehl-Neum\u00fchl (DE)<\/a><\/h3>

Military bunker: Westwall camouflage bunker Kehl-Neum\u00fchl (DE)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Kostrzyn<\/a><\/div>

Kostrzyn nad Odr\u0105 (PL)<\/a><\/h3>

Fortress system: Prussian bulwark and once shining fortress city on the Oder<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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La L\u00ednea de la Concepci\u00f3n (ES)<\/a><\/h3>

Lines of defence: Defence bulwark against Gibraltar; forts and bunkers from 300 years of fortification history<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Lembach<\/a><\/div>

Lembach (FR)<\/a><\/h3>

Military bunker: fortress (large shelter) of the Maginot Line<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Neuried<\/a><\/div>

Neuried Altenheim (DE)<\/a><\/h3>

Military bunker: Westwall camouflage bunker \"Emilie\" (DE)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>