Sponsored city

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In 1955, in the sponsored city ​​of Flensburg , a street in the district of Mürwik near Klosterholz was named after the city of Swinoujscie to which the sponsorship exists

A sponsored city takes on the sponsorship of refugees , displaced persons , an ethnic group , another city or of products (such as food , locomotives , ships , etc.) as well as geographical landscapes that are specifically dedicated to the respective sponsored city. The Wuppertal suspension railway has also been partnered accordingly since summer 2018 .

(For Deutsche Bahn see list of ICE , for Lufthansa see here .)

In contrast to the town twinning, the unilaterally accepted "care obligation" of the godparent town is essential for the term sponsorship . Beaches and sponsorships others find bodies as municipalities, namely in the area of church , the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising with the Catholic Church in Ecuador .

Numerous sponsorships arose after the Second World War or after environmental disasters .

Sponsorships of German regional authorities

Possible regional authorities that can take on sponsorships are rural districts and municipalities .

This often happened in Germany after the Second World War, when West German corporations took on sponsorships for the residents of the former districts in the former German eastern regions , in the Sudetenland or in the GDR . Even motorway rest areas were given appropriate names on the initiative of Hans-Christoph Seebohm . Various municipalities here emphasize their sponsorship for the residents living in the new place of residence or their local cultural institutions; others emphasize the sponsorship with the region or community of origin. The latter type of sponsorship was almost always one-sided , at least at the time of the Sponsorship World Declaration during the Cold War . There are also sponsorships from West German parishes with those in the areas mentioned. Individual declarations of sponsorship were later revoked (in 1989 the sponsorship of the Wetterau district in Hesse via the home district of Tepl-Petschau in the Sudetenland); Since the end of the Cold War, other sponsorships have become town twinning .

In rare cases, sponsorship was mentioned as early as after the First World War .

Examples

• Sponsorship city Bad Bevensen with the sponsorship of Demmin
• Sponsorship city ​​of Bamberg with the sponsorship of Troppau
• Sponsorship city ​​of Bartenstein with the sponsorship of Bartenstein (East Prussia)
• Sponsorship city Bochum with the sponsorship of Neidenburg and the Neidenburg district
• Sponsored city of Flensburg with the sponsorship of Swinoujscie
• Sponsorship city Lüdenscheid with the sponsorship of Glatz and the district of the same name
• Sponsorship city Schwäbisch Gmünd with the sponsorship of Brno
• Sponsorship city Dortmund with sponsorship for Wałbrzych and the Waldenburger Bergland
• Sponsorship district Hersfeld-Rotenburg with the district Mährisch Schönberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe. Article sponsorships
2. ^ Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe. Article sponsorships
3. ^ Definition of sponsorship ( memento of March 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Claudia Pinl : Warthe in the Westerwald. Culture of remembrance at West German motorway parking lots (PDF). digital-kulturanthropologie.de. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
5. ↑ Thomas Siemon: Remembering Stallupönen - 100 years of sponsorship in what was then East Prussia HNA May 31, 2015