edited: 23.10.99 current for: 1999/2000

Year 2000 Anniversary Topics
in the four Bavarian Tourist Regions

The tourist region of Allgäu/Bavarian Swabia is participating in the major anniversary topic entitled "Musicians and Composers" (see contribution from the Munich/Upper Bavaria Tourist Board). Allgäu/Bavarian Swabia is a member of the "Tracking" Association. This alliance of South Bavarian and Austrian tourist regions and towns will also publish a brochure on this topic.

In the year 2000 the Tourist Board of Allgäu/Bavarian Swabia is to give even more emphasis to the topic "Hiking and Mountaineering". This will be supported by a fully revised brochure entitled "Über den Grat" ("Over the Ridge"). Further interesting guides for walkers are currently being prepared. In 2000 the network of walking routes in the Allgäu/Bavarian Swabia region will extend from Lake Constance to the Forggensee Lake near Neuschwanstein Castle.

The Allgäu region, with its exceptional scenic beauty, has set up numerous educational and information paths to enable walkers to study nature. Allgäu/Bavarian Swabia is also the region for family and farmhouse holidays.

For further information:

Tourismusverband Allgäu/Bayerisch-Schwaben, Fuggerstrasse 9, 86150 Augsburg, Germany
Phone: (++49) 821/33335, Fax: (++49) 821/38331

tourismus@allgaeu-bayerisch-schwaben.btl.de, www.btl.de/allgaeu-bayerisch-schwaben

The tourist region of Franconia is to offer new holiday and travel concepts for the new millennium.

Its year-2000 anniversary topic is "Franconia –Land of Toys". Almost all towns and holiday regions of Franconia will contribute to this emotive, appealing topic. Emphasis will be placed on the "Nostalgia of Toys", highlighting the region’s century-old tradition of toy manufacturing, its museums and collectors’ exchange markets, but also on the "Adventure World of Toys" including events inviting visitors to participate in active games, join toy factory tours and visit the toy manufacturers’ modern play-worlds. Holiday guests will be offered opportunities to book theme-package tours, including numerous suggestions on how to explore the region on their own, for example on the "German Toys Road ".

For the target group of active holidaymakers a medium-term marketing campaign with the working title "Activity Park Franconia" is currently being prepared. It will be launched from the year 2000 onwards and will place the initial emphasis on "Cycling Holidays" (other aspects and/or sports and leisure activities will follow later). With the well-known Franconian cyclist Hubert Schwarz as the central publicity figure, opportunities and packages for cyclists – from the casual to the highly proficient – are to be focussed and marketed in the 14 Franconian holiday regions. "Activity Park Franconia" considers itself as a follow-up and completion of the joint "Health Park Franconia" initiative undertaken by Franconian spas and health resorts, which, however, will retain its independent image within Franconia’s marketing activities.

The Tourist Board Franconia regards the 950^th anniversary of the city of Nuremberg as a central marketing topic for the Year 2000 celebrations. In its anniversary year the capital of Franconia is to present itself as "The City of Peace and Human Rights". This includes for example the eagerly-awaited opening of the new documentation centre on the former Reich Party Congress site.

Further significant events include the "Mastersingers Festival" with a new production of the "Meistersinger von Nürnberg", a spectacular exhibition of masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer and a three-day festival to celebrate the city’s current birthday in July. The opening of the "New Museum for Art and Design" (planned for May 2000) will add another accent to Nuremberg’s cultural life.

For further information contact the Tourist Board Franconia, Fürther Strasse 21, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany. Phone: (++49) 911/264202, Fax: (++49) 911/270547

tourismus@franken.btl.de   www.btl.de/franken

"Musicians and Composers" is the title of the 1999/2000 anniversary topic organised by the Tourist Board Munich/Upper Bavaria. Tourists interested in culture will get to know Upper Bavaria, Allgäu/Bavarian Swabia and the neighbouring Austria from a very special viewpoint. Following the successful "Painters and Poets" project, music lovers now have an opportunity to tread in the footsteps of famous musicians who lived and worked in the Alpine region or who at least used to spend their extensive creative holidays there - Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss or Carl Orff, Johann Strauss or Karl Lanner. Traditional and new types of folk music will play a significant part in the Bavarian music programme, and guests will enjoy reading the informative and entertaining brochure entitled "Musicians and Composers" with many illustrations and interesting facts. Since music is for the ear rather than for the eye, a CD will be supplied with the brochure – the result of cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio).

For further information: Tourist Board Munich Upper Bavaria, Postfach 60 03 20, 81203 München, Germany. Phone (++49)89/829218-0, Fax (++49)89/829218-28, e-mail: tourismus@oberbayern.btl.de

From 12^th May to 5^th November 2000 the Lokschuppen (Loco Shed) exhibition centre in Rosenheim hosts the major regional exhibition "The Romans between the Alps and the North Sea". This exhibition under the auspices of the Bavarian Prime Minister is the first inter-state general presentation of Roman archaeology in Germany following unification. The exhibition has been commissioned by the State of Bavaria, designed by the Prehistoric State Collection in Munich and organised jointly with the exhibition company Veranstaltungs- und Kongress GmbH Rosenheim.
First-class archaeological finds from Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Eastern Europe are being shown for the first time in many cases, and convey a vivid picture of Europe’s Roman roots. Elaborate, spectacular design and the use of inter-active media make this exhibition a very special experience for all visitors.

For further information:

Ausstellungszentrum Lokschuppen Rosenheim
(Loco Shed Exhibition Centre)

12^th May to 5^th November 2000
Rathausstrasse 24, 83022 Rosenheim, Germany
Mail address: Kufsteiner Strasse 4,
83022 Rosenheim, Germany
www.lok-schuppen.de 
info@kuko.de
Press contact: Alexandra Birklein

Phone: (++49)8031/3001-43, Fax: (++49)8031/3001-69

In the year 2000 Ingolstadt is to celebrate its 750^th anniversary with four major topics. Exhibitions held on the Klenze Park site, in the riding-school building, the Parade House and the Reduit Tilly will depict Ingolstadt as university, military, fortress and industrial town alike.

Ingolstadt, located on the River Danube, is one of Bavaria’s greenest towns, surrounded by waterside forests. It is represented at the Expo 2000 in Hanover with a striking programme.
For further information: Stadt Ingolstadt,

Fremdenverkehrsamt, Rathausplatz 2,

85049 Ingolstadt, Germany. Phone: (++49)841/305-1098, Fax: (++49)841/305-1099

www.Ingolstadt.de    touristinformation@Ingolstadt.de

In the new millennium, Germany’s first theatre on the water will be built in Prien on Chiemsee Lake. It will celebrate its first night on 26^th July 2000, right on the shore of the lake, with "All You Need is Love" a musical biography of the Beatles. The project is supported by Sir Paul McCartney’s Entertainment University LIPA, Liverpool.

For further information contact: Priener Tourismusgesellschaft mbH, Alte Rathausstrasse 11, 83209 Prien am Chiemsee, Germany. Phone: (++49)8051/69050, Fax: 8051/690540

info@prien.chiemsee.btl.de  

In East Bavaria the year-2000 celebrations revolve around Nature. This varied tourist region with its beautiful scenery and geologically interesting landscape is presented in nature and panoramic guides for guests from Germany and abroad. Its delights range from family holidays and the "Forest Adventure" to classifying plants and tasting local delicacies from the nearby woods and fields. Holiday packages are offered in a separate holiday brochure that will be available from winter 1999 onwards from the Tourist Board Eastern Bavaria:
Tourismusverband Ostbayern,
Luitpoldstrasse 20, 93047 Regensburg, Germany.
Phone: (++49)941/58539-0,
Fax: (++49)941/58539-39,
tourismus@ostbayern.btl.de

In the year 2000 the city of Regensburg will be fully in the centre of the millennium festivities. The "Worldwide EXPO Projects" of Regensburg Cathedral, Solar Quarter Unterer Wöhrd and "Roter Herzfleck" ("Red Heart Spot"), a prime example of the widely acclaimed redevelopment of Regenburg’s historic centre, represent further attractions for guests from Germany and abroad.

From July 23 to 25 Regensburg will host and organise the "Festival of Bavarians" for all Bavarian regions. The programme will include a wide range of topics from the past, present and future, including numerous aspects of tradition, art, culture, economy and technology.

For further information contact:
Verkehrsamt der Stadt Regensburg,
Altes Rathaus, 93047 Regensburg, Germany.
Phone: (++49)941/507-4410,
Fax: (++49)941/507-4419,
tourismus@info-regensburg.baynet.de 

With the large-scale exhibition entitled "The Apocalypse: Between Fear of and Longing for Heaven" in the Veste Oberhaus fortress overlooking the three-river city of Passau, the eternal question of human existence is discussed again.

The European Weeks in Passau, which have now become an international event and which are to be held at historic sites in Lower Bavaria, Bohemia and Upper Austria from 27^th June to 29^th July 2000, are intended to commemorate great artists, musicians and composers of the last century under the motto "With Grief and Joy".

For further information contact

Festspiele Europäische Wochen Passau e.V.", Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 22, 94032 Passau, Germany.

Tel. (++49)851/560960, Fax (++49)851/70994 europaeischefestwochen@t-online.de