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Mayors&Heritage: Regensburg, Germany
1. The city of Regensburg was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2006. What changes has your city undergone since then? Already before being inscribed into the World Heritage list the old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof was a very popular destination for cultural sightseeing trips among tourists from all over the world. Since the nomination, international and regional tourism in the city even increased. Further Regensburg now – stronger than before - takes part in international networks and develops strategies for an effective management of the historic urban landscape together with other historical cities. 2. What is your role in the management of heritage as the mayor of a world heritage city? I’m personally interested in all belongings of Regensburg’s World Heritage. The title means a huge honour to our city and it comes along with great responsibilities. I myself am mainly concerned with representing the interests and needs of Regensburg’s World Heritage to the public. For assuring a high-quality management of the World Heritage I instituted a World Heritage coordination that acts as intersection for all topics related to World Heritage. Thus we guarantee that nothing happens that contradicts to the UNESCO’s World Heritage Principles, and build up World Heritage as a sustainable concept for future development. 3. What are the major enhancement projects of your city related to heritage (present and future)? When Regensburg became World Heritage the city could profit by its excellent working administration: The Department for the Preservation of Buildings and Historic Monuments as well as the Planning and Building Division already had done a good job in maintaining the historic urban fabric the years before, so that new challenges could be faced calmly. To make World Heritage Management perfect, Regensburg participates in a lot of regional and international networks and projects. One of the most actual topics is the realization of a visitor’s centre in the historic Salt barn. It is specially designed to inform interested citizens, visitors and experts on the topic World Heritage by a permanent exhibition as well as by changing thematic exhibitions. 4. Could you speak about some heritage management specify of your city as international example: the HERo program? Most historical cities are sharing the same or similar problems. Working together many of these problems could be faced much more easily. For that, the city of Regensburg was initiating the very ambitious HerO project (Heritage as Opportunity): The EU supported HerO includes ten European historic cities, partly with World Heritage status. In regular meetings, representatives of these cities exchange about actual affairs. In that way cooperating, a lot of effective acting strategies, methodologies and tools can be developed for the future.
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