Cultural get-together in Bad Salzungen: New impulses for creative meetings!

Cultural get-together in Bad Salzungen: New impulses for creative meetings!

The 2025 cultural get-together recently took place in Bad Salzungen and the atmosphere was electric. The topic? Networking in the cultural sector and exchanging information about current successes. Joana Heinemann, who gave exciting insights into the district office's projects, particularly highlighted the nationwide “Aller.Land” program and its goals. This program was launched in 2023 and aims to support structurally weak rural regions such as the Wartburg district. Loud in southern Thuringia The new culture laboratory in the “Passage an den Beeten” offers an exciting platform for creative projects.

The Wartburg District District Office has positioned itself as a driving force: funding amounting to 1.3 million euros will be made available over the next five years for the cultural development of the region, which will lead to the creation of five multifunctional cultural venues in different communities. These places are intended to enable cross-generational cultural activities and thus strengthen social cohesion wartburgkreis.de reported.

Cultural venues and community participation

The idea behind “Aller.Land – designing together. Strengthening structures.” is to give committed local people a voice - an opportunity for them to actively shape their lives with creative ideas. This not only creates cultural offerings, but also a stronger community spirit. Over 50 actors from art, education, youth work, politics and administration took part in the kick-off, where they jointly identified regional challenges such as mobility and education deficits.

The culture laboratory in Bad Salzungen has already taken on a pioneering role as a model project. The focus is on participatory and community-building projects that promote cultural participation and support democracy education. This initiative was launched as part of the program, which is not only important for the Wartburg district. In the first half of 2025, 30 regions in Germany were already able to impress with their concepts, as was the case on the website Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media can be read.

Variety of possibilities

Creative workshops, storytelling cafés and regular theater evenings are planned, which will be complemented by special highlights. Gloria Dittmar-Wegner, the cultural advisor, emphasizes the importance of shaping culture together. The collaborations with local artists and institutions, such as the Wartburgkreis Youth Art School and the Theater am Markt in Eisenach, promise an exciting and varied cultural program. Expectations are high and everyone involved is excited to see how the projects will develop.

Overall, the 2025 cultural get-together shows that a lot is happening in the Wartburg district. With bold ideas and the necessary commitment, the region is setting an example for culture in rural areas.