Soulfulness

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Seelentium refers to a tourism region created in 2006 in the border triangle of Upper Austria , Salzburg and Bavaria . The name of the region is a fusion of the German word see and the Latin word silentium (= soundlessness, silence, silence) and is intended to express that this area is a quiet landscape with lakes. In addition, the word soul is consciously in this name. In the area that was previously little affected by tourism, the focus is on gentle tourism.

geography

The Seelentium tourism region currently comprises fifteen municipalities and cities in the Upper Innviertel , in Salzburg Flachgau and in Upper Bavaria :

The lakes that were the inspiration for the name of the region are all small bathing lakes of local importance and some bodies of water that cannot be used. These are

  • Heratinger See or Ibmer See (Eggelsberg municipality)
  • Holzöstersee (Franking municipality)
  • Höllerersee (communities Haigermoos and Sankt Pantaleon)
  • Huckinger Lakes (in the border area of ​​the municipalities of Tarsdorf and Geretsberg)
  • Leitgeringersee (Tittmoning)
  • Seeleitensee (in the Ibmer Moor nature reserve , Eggelsberg municipality)
  • Wöhrsee (below Burghausen Castle)

The Ibmer Moor, the Weidmoos and large parts of the banks of the Salzach as a border river between Upper Austria or Salzburg and Bavaria are designated as nature reserves.

Organization and history: Verein and Verband Seelentium

Seelentium emerged from a LEADER marketing project. This is a program initiated and funded by the European Union to strengthen the (also transnational) rural area, which in the present case is intended to promote tourism in the Upper Innviertel . It was implemented within the Leader region Oberinnviertel – Mattigtal . The Seelentium association was founded in Franking in 2005. Over the years, as a feel-good region, other communities and companies have been won over to work, especially the Bavarian Burghausen in the planning of a joint Bavarian - Upper Austrian provincial exhibition .

In 2010 the European Commission presented Seelentium with the EDEN Award , which is given to regions with particularly gentle and sustainable tourism. The submission for the award was entitled “Feeling the Soul of Water”. In 2010, those 10 communities in the Oberinnviertel – Mattigtal region that belong to the Seelentium sub-region also started a regional Agenda 21 process (UN sustainability program).

While at the beginning of the cooperation only Franking was rated as a tourist municipality (a classification of the overnight stay intensity), the two communities Eggelsberg and Hochburg-Ach also achieved this status in 2011. In October 2011, the Upper Austrian town of Mattighofen, now also a tourist community, joined the association. Franking and Hochburg-Ach then founded the joint tourism association Seelentium (multi-municipality tourism region according to Upper Austrian Tourism Law) - the other two municipalities are initially still organized with local associations. With the simultaneous accession of the two Salzburg municipalities Lamprechtshausen and Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg to the association, Seelentium became a cross-border three-country project in which 7 tourism associations are involved. Since then, on the Austrian side, the association has been called Seelentium - Upper Innviertel / Flachgau Wellness Region .

In 2012, with the joint state exhibition, Allied, Enemy, By marriage - Bavaria and Austria, a prominent national project was implemented.

Advertising activity

Advertising sticker for a bike path in the region

In tourism advertising, the connotations of the terms silence and calm are used. According to the motive of a careful treatment of nature, sustainability and deceleration are the focus. In line with this, there are hardly any superlatives in the advertising texts, rather terms of beautiful, calm and leisurely as well as enjoyment are used.

Specifically, the tourism associations of the individual municipalities, which are merged in Seelentium, promote the landscape character, the less well-known sights of the region and the range of sporting activities: swimming lakes, bike paths, hiking trails (with the pilgrimage route Via Nova ), horse riding and fishing.

The joint Bavarian-Upper Austrian state exhibition in 2012 with the main towns of Burghausen, Mattighofen and Ranshofen brought the region's cultural heritage to the fore. The topic of Silent Night also plays a role in tourism work, as Franz Xaver Gruber was born in Hochburg and taught as a teacher in Arnsdorf in the municipality of Lamprechtshausen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Data and facts about Seelentium ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mattighofen-erleben.at archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf, mattighofen-erleben.at; 37 kB).
  2. LEADER region Oberinnviertel-Mattigtal: News → Archive for the 'Social' category : LEADER Impulse Day : regional Agenda 21 of the Seelentium sub-region , Zukunft-om.at, October 10, 2011.
  3. Tourism Association Seelentium  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oberoesterreich.at   , oberoesterreich.at; see also Structure Map Tourism Upper Austria 2012 (pdf, oberoesterreich-tourismus.at; 222 kB)
  4. ↑ The well-being region of Seelentium is growing: three countries - one vision. New partner communities at Seelentium.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.salzachbruecke.eu   Press releases from the Seelentium tourism association and the Lamprechtshausen tourism association, quoted on salzachbruecke.eu, December 16, 2011.
  5. Texts on the website of the tourism region, accessed on September 21, 2011.