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BayernHistory – the history app
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BavariaHistory
TERM: 2020-2023
FORMAT: Media art project with geo-referenced web application and app
FOCUS: social storytelling, digital museum, multimedia with VR, AR, video and audio
TARGET GROUP: All population groups in a target group-oriented approach
LOCATION: Landsberg am Lech district (initial phase). Expansion to other administrative districts is in preparation.
REPORTS ON BAVARIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION:
28.04.2023: BR1 Rundfunk: BayernHistoryApp starts in the district of Landsberg
04.05.2023: BR Fersehen, Abendschau: Digital travel guide for the homeland
DOWNLOAD THE APP:
BayernHistoryApp for iOS
THE PROJECT
Innovative, integrative, interactive: the cultural association “dieKunstBauStelle” is implementing a media and history project. The basis is a digital and location-based smartphone app for multimedia access to regional history. A platform on which historians, artists, authors, journalists and journalists work together with young people, contemporary witnesses and municipal partners to create access to the history of the Landsberg am Lech district. An opportunity for digital participation in our cultural and historical heritage. The best thing about it: everything is free of charge and accessible to users at any time. This starts under the working title “LandsbergHistoryApp”.
Since 2020, the pilot project has been realized thematically and conceptually in cooperation with the association BerlinHistory e. V., idea provider and software developer. To this end, an interdisciplinary editorial group was formed as a team through training and workshops.
Existing exhibitions are jointly revised and new media content is produced. This includes audio tours, 360° tours and virtual reality rooms. The region’s online offerings can also be bundled under artistic, historical and media aspects at a central location and benefit directly from the navigation app function.
History workshop with a model character
Since May 1, 2023, all population groups can benefit from the project, but especially visitors in the Landsberger am Lech district, which is the first to start with eight municipalities in the app. It is also intended to create an additional offer for extracurricular youth education projects, says Hauck. In consultation with the teachers, teaching content could be specifically addressed, resulting in valuable synergy effects. Training courses are intended to encourage and enable interested citizens to contribute content and contributions in the form of a “participatory history workshop”.
The “BayernHistoryApp project” has a model character. More than 50 high-ranking partners, memorial sites, museums and archives of the BerlinHistoryApp are already part of the app. Over eight years of development work, much of it on a voluntary basis. This sustainability is paying off. The app is now “the” app for Berlin. This open format will now be used to its full extent for the first time. The scope of topics will therefore be unique in Germany.
A “Who’s Who” of the history of the district of Landsberg am Lech
“In the first phase by November 2021, the first biographical text and image entries will be incorporated into the app,” says Hauck. This will represent a “who’s who” of history in the district of Landsberg am Lech. This includes people from the last few centuries with their local references, as well as places from early history such as the settlement of Pestenacker.
There is already great interest in including architectural and natural monuments. The history of the raftsmen and the salt trade are also planned. In this way, a medieval town will be portrayed in a contemporary way. The municipalities of Greifenberg and Dießen are the first to get started. The landmarks can already be discovered there since May 1, 2023.
But it is not just about a history that is up to 1,000 years old. There is now also a specialist committee to combine the incorporation of more recent history with existing information provided by the district of Landsberg am Lech, the municipalities of Dießen, Geltendorf, Kaufering, Fuchstal, Schondorf, Prittriching and Egling a. d. Paar and other initiatives.
According to Berlin historian and cultural manager Martin Recken, who has been developing the Berlin History project for eight years – and recently won an award for the best museum app with his team – the district of Landsberg is predestined for the project as a historical learning location. “The Regeion could become one of our most interesting partners.” The region’s history is incredibly exciting. I see many synergies and great potential for our collaboration.
Try it out!
The BerlinHistoryApp (the model) can be installed and tried out free of charge on Android and iOS smartphones.
You can navigate to the location on the interactive map and start exploring Berlin with the app:
Website and download: BerlinHistory.app
An award-winning platform: BerlinHistory app
The BerlinHistory app is a digital museum of Berlin history that is constantly being expanded by the non-profit association of the same name in collaboration with Berlin cultural institutions, initiatives and archives. All content is displayed in a location-based manner in the city and is created for permanent storage. The BerlinHistory app provides a wide range of information about the city’s history on current and historical maps and aerial photographs with texts, photos, films, interviews with contemporary witnesses and tours. The core team consists of historians and software developers who continuously develop new technical features and at the same time guarantee sustainable operation (updates, server infrastructure, support, etc.).
The BerlinHistory app is now the most used and best-rated of its kind in the app stores and has been online since February 21, 2019. Since then, it has been growing daily through its own productions, as well as through the contributions and thematic layers of its more than 80 cooperation partners (museums, memorials, archives and history initiatives).
The BerlinHistory app is free, ad-free and, at around 40 MB, takes up minimal storage space as all content is streamed. With the innovative camera tool and the associated school project, BerlinHistory is taking the first step towards a participatory platform for urban history.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT, IDEA AND CONCEPT
- Wolfgang Hauck
COOPERATION PARTNER SOFTWARE AND DEVELOPMENT
PARTNER
All municipalities in the Landsberg district can apply to participate as partners.
The following municipalities and the district of Landsberg have already committed, qualified and supported the project with financial contributions:
- Landsberg am Lech district
- Market Dießen am Ammersee
- Municipality of Egling an der Paar
- Community Fuchstal
- Community Geltendorf
- Community Greifenberg
- Kaufering market
- Municipality of Schondorf am Ammersee
- Municipality of Prittriching
- Municipality of Windach
- Municipality of Scheuring
- City of Grafenwoehr
- Community of Dentlein am Forst
- …
OUTLOOK
After the projection phase, the app will also be extended to other districts, independent cities and all seven administrative districts.
Current status March 2024:
- Middle Franconia – from 2024
- Lower Bavaria – from 2024
- Upper Bavaria – start phase from 2023
- Upper Franconia – 2024
- Upper Palatinate – from 2025
- Swabia – from 2024
- Lower Franconia – from 2024
PROMOTION
- Socioculture Fund
- Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts /
Kulturfonds Bayern
- District of Upper Bavaria
SUPPORTERS
- Ignaz-Kögler-Gymnasium
- Secondary school Landsberg am Lech
- Fuchstal secondary school
- Military history collection Weingut II
- Dr. Edith Raim, University of Augsburg
- Prof. Günter Morsch, former director and head of the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, Brandenburg Memorials Foundation
- Rainer E. Klemke, Berlin, former Berlin memorial and museum consultant
- Dr. Ensa Filazi, Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Head of Translation Studies
- European Holocaust Memorial Foundation e. V.
- LMU Munich
- University of Regensburg
- NS Documentation Center Munich
EXPERT ADVICE
The respective topics are accompanied by scientific and technical experts. The specialist reactions are currently being formed and the experts invited.
EXPERT ADVICE ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Prof. Dr. Günter Morsch, Berlin
- Dr. Edith Raim, University of Augsburg
- Rainer E. Klemke, berlinHistory e.V.
- Manfred Deiler ✝, European Holocaust Memorial Foundation
- Martin Recken
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT SELECTION
- Prof. Jürgen Pfeffer, TU Munich
- Prof. Dr. P.C. Mayer-Tasch
- Prof. John Michalczyk, USA, Boston, Boston College
- Prof. Martin Stummbaum, University of Augsburg
- Dr. Ensa Filazi, Turkey, Istanbul University
- Dr. Johannes Griebl, Central Institute for Art History
- Dr. Frank Seehausen, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- Dr. Ketty Parma, Italy, Foscari University, Venice
- Andrea Halbritter, Netzwerk Leichte Sprache e. V.
- Wolfgang Pusch, retired town archivist, Starnberg
- Günther Strehle, Stalag e.V.
- Kristin Tolok, M.A. NS Documentation Center
COOPERATION PARTNER
- European Holocaust Memorial Foundation
- BavarianRadio
- Bavarian Adult Education Association
- Augsburg Bahnpark GmbH
- Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, Weilheim
- Anne Frank Center
- Schondorf circle
- Fachstal remains colorful
- Our Hochfeld e.V.
- And many more
PRESS ARTICLE SELECTION
05.11.2020 Landsberger Tagblatt – Travel back in time with an app (PDF)
12.11.2020 Landsberger Tagblatt – No subsidy from the city for the HistoryApp (PDF)
12.11.2020 Landsberger Tagblatt – Commentary: The city and its history (PDF)
28.11.2020 Kreisbote Landsberg – No money for HistoryApp Article (PDF)
04.04.2021 Ammerseekurier – Geltendorf – Cultivators to bring life to the station (PDF)
16.04.2021 Landsberg district messenger – Starting signal for the Kultainer and HistoryApp (PDF)
16.04.2021 BR24: “Kultainer” in Geltendorf – media studios to try out
28.08.2021 Kreisbote Landsberg – Cultural fund promotes culture in the district of Landsberg (PDF)
12.05.2021 Landsberger Tagblatt – An app conveys history (PDF)
11.04.2021 KreisboteLandsberg – An app makes history (PDF)
28.04.2021 Kreisbote Landsberg – Member of the Values Alliance
11.06.2021 Landsberger Tagblatt – Geltendorf HistoryApp (PDF)
09.10.2021 Landsberger Tagblatt – Egling participates in HistoryApp (PDF)
11.11.2021 Schondorf Blog – Railway pictures wanted
28.12.2022 Kreisbote – BayernHistoryApp: Dießen is the first focus
04.052023 Süddeutsche Zeitung – A stroll around town with your smartphone
05.05.2023 Aloys News – BayernHistoryApp: Launch in Greifenberg online and analog
06.05.2023 Landsberger Tagblatt – The BayernHistoryApp brings local history to your cell phone
18.07.2024 Landsberger Tagblatt – The HistoryApp takes you through the history of Geltendorf
19.07.2024 Aloys News – The municipality of Geltendorf is also represented in the BayernHistoryApp
10.09.2024 City of Grafenwoehr Presentation of BayernHistory
STATUS OF THE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
2018
- November 2018 Wolfgang Hauck “discovers” the berlinHistoryApp
- December 2018 First talks on an app for Bavaria with launch in the district of Landsberg am Lech
2019
- January 2019 Preparation and development of the project
- February 2019 Project applications and letters of recommendation in Bavaria
- October 2019 Letter of intent for cooperation with berlinHistory e. V.
2020
- First funding applications submitted in April 2020
- October 27, 2020 Approval of funding by the Socioculture Fund
- October 30, 2020 Application for funding from the Kulturfonds Bayern submitted
- December 10, 2020 Unanimous municipal council resolution on the partnership by the municipality of Fuchstal
- December 14, 2020 Commitment to the partnership by the municipality of Dießen
- December 31, 2020 Installation of four mobile media stations as cultainers completed. A separate project as an operational part of the project.
2021
- January 22, 2021 Approval of the provisional start of measures by the government of Upper Bavaria
- From April 2021, start forming editorial teams and developing concepts with the partners
- April 14 Press conference at the launch in Geltendof with the mayors of the municipalities
- July 1, 2021 Start of editorial work in Dießen am Ammersee
- July 13, 2021 Reaction workshop in the municipality of Fuchstal
- August 11-12, 2021 First software training for the HistoryApp, demo version of the app
- September 2021 Development of the “Diessen cultural trails” theme trail
- October 2021 Editorial workshop in the municipality of Greifenberg and Schondorf, cooperation with Istanbul University, Translational Sciences
- November 2021 Editorial workshop in the municipality of Prittriching, cooperation with the University of Augsburg (pedagogy, modern history, didactics)
- November 22, 2021 Registration of domains landsberghistory.app and history.bayern
- December 2021 Cooperation agreement with Istanbul University, Istanbul HistoryApp project
2022
- January 21, 2022 Editorial workshop for the market town of Kaufering
- March 9, 2022 Registration of the domain “historyApp.org” for supraregional uses of the app
- March 2022 Cooperation with the Elite Graduate Program Eastern Europe LMU Munich for themed audio walk in Munich
- March 22, 2022 Online training in Landsberg: Editorial contributions and formats for the app
- April 2, 2022 Release of the beta version
- November-December 2022 Layout and design of the app
- 16.12.2022 Naming ceremony: BayernHistory. Launch of the website: www.BayernHistory.de
- 19.12.2022 Presentation of the app to the municipal council in Dießen
2023
- 25.01.2023 Presentation in the municipality of Kaufering
- 11.04.2023 Presentation to the municipal council in Greifenberg
- 01.05.2023 First release in the App Store and Android Store:
Kick-off in Greifenberg and Dießen am Ammersee with tours, a look behind the scenes and a presentation - 20.07.2023 Presentation of the BayernHistoryApp at the citizens’ meeting in Kaufering
- 22.07.2023 Presentation of the audio walk on Moosburg’s new town
- 11.07.2023 Presentation to Scheuring municipal council: unanimous decision to join
- 12.09.2023 Presentation to Windach municipal council: unanimous decision to join
- 14.09.2023 Presentation to the Landsberg am Lech district council’s culture committee: unanimous recommendation for the app to be funded by the district of Landsberg am Lech
- 14.09.2023 Augsburg Railway Park awards the contract for its own museum app
- 15.10.2023: Public launch of the app for the municipality of Schondorf
2024
- 21.02.2024 Presentation of the BayernHistoryApp for the municipality of Scheuring
- 16.07.2024 Presentation of the BayernHistoryApp for the municipality of Geltendorf
- 24.07.2024 Publication of the audio walk “Johnny Cash in Bavaria” Project of the P-Seminar
- Further presentation dates will follow for the municipalities of Windach, Fuchstal, Egling and Prittriching
- App for the exhibition: The Labyrinth: www.dasLabyrinth.org
- Extensions with contributions from other archives and initiatives.
FURTHER PLANNING OF THE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION 2024-2025
- Processing the issues for Fuchstal, Egling, Prittriching and Windach by 2024.
- From January 2024, the app will be expanded and used with additional partners throughout Bavaria
- Project with partners in Turkey (Istanbul University)
- Individual start dates in the participating municipalities.
- Extensions: VeniceHistoryApp, IstanbulHistoryApp, a layer on contemporary history in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Focus with topics: Jewish life in Bavaria, stumbling blocks and memorials
PUBLICATIONS
01.10.2020 BerlinHistory info about the app – Presentation (PDF)
REPORTS ON BAVARIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION:
28.04.2023: BR1 Rundfunk: BayernHistoryApp” starts in the district of Landsberg
04.05.2023: BR Fernsehen, Abendschau: Digital travel guide for the homeland
TRAININGS AND VIDEO COURSES
Editing and text formats of the History app, March 12, 2022
STATUS OF THE INFORMATION
September 15, 2024
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