South East Europe Project - Danube Limes Brand

Protecting our heritage from destruction

After surviving since antiquity the archaeological landscapes, sites and monuments in the Danubecountries are more threatened than ever before, because of rapid urban and rural development. Theextension of the multinational UNESCO World Heritage Site “Frontiers of the Roman Empire” intothe Danube countries will help to establish a long-term and sustainable protection in preparing various requirements for new nomination documents. National and regional authorities and stake-holders will be provided with concrete results for their policies and the management of the Limesheritage, national and cross-border follow-up initiatives will be facilitated.

The forlet of Boljetin on the bank of the Danube was excavated in 1969 and flooded after the construction of the coffer-dam(Photo: Archaeological Institute Belgrad)

The Danube Limes — a flagship project of the European Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR)

Transnational project activities will foster a network of Limes sites and institutions to create a wide body of study, analysis and dissemination of the cul-tural and economic values of this distinctive heritage, as well as a common place for sharing a high quality knowledge and experience, with the addedvalue of exchanging expertise and different approaches and stimulating cooperation within the Danube countries. Similar sites vary considerably inimpact. Analysis of the regional impacts will be followed by the definition of the desired improvements to find the best partners, initiate best actionsand develop conceptual strategies for individual Limes destinations. This will prepare the ground to make the historic environment more intellectuallyaccessible and enjoyable, to visit for both tourists and local residents.

Next to the United Kingdom and Germany already Hungary and Slovakia have prepared their UNESCO nomination documents and five more countries along the river Danube have indicated the intention to nominate their sections for the UNESCO inscription (Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania) (Copyright: CE Projekt Danube Limes; edited by Kurt Schaller)

Some forts on the Lower Danube are not as yet built over, such as Dinogetia in Romania. Their preservation as an archaeologicalreservation is an important task for the monument preservationauthorities (Photo: Boundary Productions)

The southern gate of the legionary fortress at Aquincumhas been preserved in a densely populated area of themodern city of Budapest (Photo: Zsolt Visy, Pécs)

The extension of the multinational UNESCO World Heritage Site “Frontiers of theRoman Empire” into the Danube countries, initiated by Hungary and Slovakia in theCentral Europe project “Danube Limes — UNESCO World Heritage” (2008–2011) willnow take the results and lessons learnt on to the next level in establishing collaborationwith partners linked to cultural heritage protection and marketing into the LowerDanube countries. The CE project "Danube Limes — UNESCO World Heritage was successfully finished in December 2011 with the nomination documents for Hungaryand Slovakia and the final CE project publication “In the Footsteps of the Romans.Guidelines to nominate new Danube Limes sections in other Danube countries”(Copyright: CE Project “Danube Limes”)

LeadPartner

Department for HistoryUniversity of ViennaProf. Dr. ANDREAS SCHWARCZ

Universitätsring 11010 WienAustriaPhone: +43 (0)1 4277 27216Fax: +43 (0)1 4277 9272E-mail: andreas.schwarcz@univie.ac.at

extension of the danube Limes uneSCo World Heritage in the Lower danube

Partner inStitutionS

AT Department for HistoryUniversity of Vienna

AT Department for Building and Environment, Center for Architectural Heritage and Infrastructure, Danube University Krems

SK Municipal Monument Preservation Institute in Bratislava

HU Department of Tourism and Regional DevelopmentKároly Róbert College

IT Province of Rimini

RO Institute of National Heritage

BG National Institute of Archaeology and Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

RS Archaeological InstituteSerbian Academy of Sciences

HR Museum of Slavonia Osijek

aSSoCiated PartnerS

German Limes Road Association The Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic (PUSR) National Tourism Organisation of Serbia Eco-Museum Research Institute Tulcea (ICEM)ARGE Donauländer Danube Tourist Commission

Bavaria 197 km Austria 357 km Slovakia 172 km Hungary 417 km Croatia 137 km

DANUBE LIMES

FRE — Frontiers of the Roman Empire

Serbia 587 km Bulgaria 471 km Romania 1075 km

Symbolic of division and conflict, the Danube Limes now provides anideal context through which to promote common identity and culturalheritage values in modern Southeast Europe. This mission will beachieved by the following objectives:

• Long-term and sustainable preservation of Limes monuments through nominating new frontier sections for World Heritage statusin the Lower Danube countries

• Development of a joint action strategy for the Danube Limes fromthe Black Forest to the Black Sea

• Create brand modules for a Danube Limes destination

• Interregional cooperation in developing, improving and presenting individual Limes sites

1 October 2012 to 30 September 2014

South East Europe Project

www.danubelimesbrand.org

ContaCt ProjeCt Coordination

Mrs. SONJA JILEKMr. ANTON SCHABL

E-mail: dlb.admin@schabl.at

Jo int ly for our common future

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