SOUTH BALTIC MANORS – Valorisation of manors for tourism development in rural areas of the South Baltic area

27.02.2025

Lead partner

Name: Tourism Association Vorpommern
https://www.vorpommern.de/
Address: Fischstraße 11, D-17489 Hansestadt Greifswald
Region/Subregion: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Country: Germany


Project Partners Member States

DE, DK, LT, PL, SE


Name: Association of Palaces and Manor Houses in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Address: Rondell 7 – 8, 17207 Ludorf / Müritz
Region/Subregion: Other DE
Country: Germany

Name: Culture Association Christinas Wänner
Address: Christinehof, 273 57 Brösarp
Region/Subregion: Södra Sverige
Country: Sweden

Name: Klaipeda University
https://www.ku.lt/
Address: Herkaus Manto 84, 92294 Klaipeda
Region/Subregion: Klaipedos apskritis
Country: Lithuania

Name: Regional Planning Association Vorpommern
Address: Am Gorzberg 8, 17489 Greifswald
Region/Subregion: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Country: Germany

Name: Association "Vorpommersche Dorfstrasse"
Address: Peenestr. 18/19, 17391 Stolpe
Region/Subregion: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Country: Germany

Name: The Union of Towns and Communes of the Parsęta River Basin
Address: Szymanowskiego 17, 78-230 Karlino
Region/Subregion: Zachodniopomorskie
Country: Poland

Name: Tourist Association "Northern Kashubia" Local Tourist Organisation
Address: Plac Wolności 28, 84-100 Puck
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland

Name: Polish Union of Active Mobility
https://mobilnosc.org/
Address: Jana Heweliusza 29, 80-861 Gdansk
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland

Name: Museum of Kashubian-Pomeranian Literature and Music
Address: Zamkowa 2A, 84-200 Wejherowo
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland

Name: Directorate of Rambynas Regional Park
Address: Nemunas 4, 99265 Bitėnai
Region/Subregion: Lithuania
Country: Lithuania

Name: Museum Lolland-Falster
Address: Frisegade 40, DK-4800 Nykøbing F
Region/Subregion: Sjælland
Country: Denmark

Name: Wemmenhög Museum Association at Svaneholm Castle
Address: 274 91 Skurup
Region/Subregion: Skåne
Country: Sweden


Category of intervention

076


What is the project changing?

Manor houses across the Baltic Sea’s coast provide a great potential for tourism in the South Baltic area. SB Manors is creating new strategies and offers for manor tourism.

What was the challenge?

The tourism potential for manor houses is barely used around the coasts of the Baltic Sea, although the manor houses have a lot of possiblities to offer.

What is the project creating?

SB Manors is creating joint marketing and promotion for the manor tourism around the South Baltic’s coasts.

Project Website

Find the SB Manors project website here.

Full project description

Manors are prominent testimonies of the changeful history of the South Baltic area and genuine “cross-border monuments” of the manifold cultural & political interrelations within the region. At the same time, they are sceneries for attractive and unusual tourism & culture offers. SOUTH BALTIC MANORS seeks to use this potential for tourism development in the rural parts of the SBA.
The project:

  • Revives the USP for SBA manor tourism and initiatives joint marketing, which uses the region`s shared history & the recent “space pioneer” phenomenon (= new generation of owners & users, setting up unusual culture & tourism offers) as new “plug”. Focal points are 7 “SOUTH BALTIC MANORS entry points & history showcases” that are established by the project;
  • Creates & promotes new joint manor tourism offers for genuine cross-border travelers;
  • Elaborates & promotes sub-regional trails & tools around manors that lead visitors from main SBA tourism hotspots to the rural hinterlands;
  • Initiates an intensive peer learning & exchange process to further innovate & reinforce touristic valorisations&utilisation of manors in the SBA;
  • Sets up durable cooperation frameworks for continuing the joint efforts and carrying out lobbying activities to gain further support for them.

The project aims to result in increasing number of day tourists & cross-border travelers visiting manors in the rural parts of the South Baltic area during & off the main tourism season, thereby contributing to leveling out tourism intensity and season prolongation.

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