The municipality of Engelhartszell and the city of Passau are striving for closer cooperation in the fields of culture and tourism. Topics such as the Danube, the associated network of cycle paths and the common parts of the historic Roman Limes are also in focus, as is the Schütz Art Museum in Engelhartszell. Mayor Roland Pichler, culture chairman Friedrich Bernhofer and museum founder Josef Schütz recently welcomed Passau’s mayor Jürgen Dupper to the Schütz Art Museum to discuss transnational issues.
The goal is more intensive cooperation between the Passau museums and the Schütz Art Museum. Mutual circulation of advertising material, linking on the Internet and mutual invitations to the current exhibitions should be the first contributions. Already at least a third of the 20,000 annual museum visitors in Engelhartszell come from neighboring Bavaria – mainly from the city and district of Passau. Conversely, guests from the local Danube region visit the numerous cultural institutions in the city of Passau. Since 1980, annual concerts of the Festival European Weeks Passau have been held in the Engelszell Abbey Church.
In the summer of 2021, the Roman excavations of Boiotro in Passau, Stanacum in the Engelhartszell village of Oberranna and Ioviacum on the Schlögener Donauschlinge were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO as part of the Danube Limes, the former northern border of the Roman Empire. According to the partners, only very rarely are several World Heritage sites so close together as in this case at only 40 kilometers. Therefore, a close cooperation is also recommended here. After the gap has now been closed on the international Danube cycle path from Passau to Schlögen in the area from Oberranna to Wesenufer, a cycle circuit between Passau and Schlögen is to be created in 2023 and 2024.
World Heritage circuit for cyclists
The four Bavarian and seven Austrian municipalities also want to bring in the experience of “Rad Total im Donautal”: A “Danube Limes World Heritage Tour” is to include the existing Roman rest areas and the cultural highlights of the city of Passau and the Danube region in the border area in addition to the World Heritage sites lock in. This offer should also contribute to a longer stay of the tourists and thus to an increase in added value.
At the meeting with Passau’s Lord Mayor Dupper, Cultural Chairman Bernhofer handed over two old booklets with Maidult songs from his grandfather’s fund that were sung in Passau more than 100 years ago.
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