international
A transnational harmonized strategy for spatial development has been compiled within the project ED-C III Via Regia for the European development Corridor III between 2006 and 2008. With that a transnational network has been set up which also gives impulses for other fields of action within the frame of crossborder cooperation. This formed the base for the continuation of the project in the EU funding period 2008 – 2013.
Ukraine
The North and South course of the Via Regia leading from Poland on to the East meet in Rivne and take a unified course to Kiev. The international department of the city administration of this West-Ukrainian city of Rivne is one of the most important partners of the VIA REGIA network and fulfil a relais function. The department brings several institutions of the city, the region Rivnenska and the Western Ukraine together and functions as a communicator in a place whose history is strongly connected to the route.
Volinskiy Fol'kcentr carries out a project within the framework of the Government program of saving, revival and development of folk trades from 2006-2010.
The development of the Fol'kcentr exhibition aims at presenting Rivne and Volyn’ Polissya within the framework of international projects like VIA REGIA -
a cultural way of Europe and European football championship Euro-2012.
Polen
Bierzemy udział w projekcie „VIA REGIA – Wielka Droga Kulturowa Rady Europy”, którego celem jest ożywienie trasy: Santiago de Compostela – Lublin – Kijów oraz Wilno. Nasz szczególny wkład w to przedsięwzięcie stanowi doprowadzenie do wpisania całości
„Szlaku Jagiellońskiego” Kraków – Lublin – Wilno, który wcześniej był uwzględniony w nim tylko częściowo.
Oś komunikacyjna, średniowieczny Kupiecki Szlak VIA REGIA była to nić tworząca nowoczesną Europę. Jej przebieg ugruntowała wielowiekowa historia. Przez stulecia
łączyła ważne ośrodki handlowe Regionów Europejskich Hiszpanii, Francji, Włoch, Niemiec, Polski, Ukrainy... Celem bezpośrednim projektu jest włączenie partnerów
ukraińskich do tworzonej sieci współpracy (stowarzyszenie samorządów terytorialnych “Na Kupieckim Szlaku”) realizującej idee europejskiej jedności i
uniwersalności z jednoczesnym akcentowaniem unikatowości i wyjątkowości regionów polskich: dolnośląskiego, opolskiego, śląskiego, małopolskiego i podkarpackiego,
z innymi regionami Europy, leżącymi na dawnym szlaku kupieckim z Norymbergii do Odessy.
The Camino VIA REGIA from Brzeg through Wrocław – Legnica to Zgorzelec. The present pilgrimage path leads through Lower Lusatia following the route course of the VIA REGIA in late medieval times as the region had a time of prosperity. Additionally parts of the route in Malopolska and Upper Lusatia are reconstructed. in 2010 the pilgrimage path from Kraków and from St. Annamountain in Upper Lusatia to Opole and Brzeg should be opened.
Germany
The Oecumenic Pilgrimage Path from Görlitz (Saxony) to Vacha (Thuringia) is oriented along the historical route course of the VIA REGIA and ties in with the history of pilgrimage in past centuries.
Objective of the association is the investigation and the revitalisation of the VIA REGIA in its historical course as modern European East-West road link.
The model building project VIA REGIA is integrated in the homeland association Königsbrück. Next to the model building the investigation of the VIA REGIA, the examination with history and architecture as well as the networking with respective projects in Germany and Poland are the central points in their work. The objective is to create a park of architecture models VIA REGIA as cultural landscape in Königsbrück.
„VIA REGIA – Travelling along the King’s Road“. Travel offer from Dresden to Eisenach.
The journey follows the popular road through the old residences which often have been found as market places and became important through trade which still today visualise us a living picture of past times.
Under the heading „Central Germany complete“ the web page puts a view on important characteristics and the variety of the metropolitain area Leipzig over. It present touristiclly intersting routes through Central Germany. One tour reaches from Leipzig through Lützen - Weißenfels and Naumburg - Bad Kösen - Eckartsberga to Weimar (also known as VIA REGIA, "Route of the poets, thinker and generals” resp. as "Goethe-Route").
South Hesse has always been a transit country for tradesmen, pilgrims and armys in West-East and North-South direction. The High Road has been a part of a road net covering whole Europe (e.g. the historical VIA REGIA from Santiago to Kiev). The regioanl park route High Road follows the route course of the VIA REGIA. Actually it reaches from Großen Loh in Niederdorfelden to Hammersbach in the district Langen-Bergheim. The concept of the regional park route translates historical references of exchange of persons, goods and information to the present times and deals through art installations in special places with particular themes.
The VIA REGIA between Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig brought the surname “an der Straße” (along the road) to the city of Steinau in Hesse. The road shaped Steinau. The meaning of Steinau grew with the amount of travellers along the trading route from Frankfurt to Leipzig. The museum shows the history of Steinau as station along the VIA REGIA.
