Partnerships
Partnerships & sponsorships
As a sign of solidarity with the people who were displaced from their - formerly East German - homeland as a result of the Second World War, the former old districts of Frankenberg and Waldeck took over the sponsorships for the towns of Bütow and Pyritz, which have been continued by the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg since the territorial reform of the 1970s. The district also maintains numerous partnerships that have developed over the past decades - both nationally and internationally. The aim is to promote joint dialogue in various subject areas and at various levels.
Berlin-Charlottenburg
The first placements of Charlottenburg children in foster families in the Waldeck Land took place as early as the beginning of the 1950s. School partnerships between Waldeck and Berlin-Charlottenburg as well as lively mutual visits and contacts between various groups and official political representatives finally led to the official partnership between Berlin-Charlottenburg and the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in 1988.
Burgenland
The district of Waldeck-Frankenberg has entered into its third partnership with the Austrian province of Burgenland. Old connections and contacts between the old district of Frankenberg and Burgenland have been reawakened, partly in view of the European Union's funding priorities, and have quickly developed into an official and active partnership. Joint projects in the fields of tourism, agriculture and forestry, environmental protection and nature conservation as well as health are the focus of the partnership work.
Pereslavl
The district of Waldeck-Frankenberg has been twinned with the Pereslavl District, situated approximately 120 km north-east of Moscow, since 1990. This partnership arose in connection with the regional partnership between the State of Hesse and the Yaroslavl Oblast, which forms the overarching framework. Agricultural exchange programmes and the transfer of economic and technological expertise form the focus of the partnership’s work.
Walworth Couty
In June 2003, the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg formalised its German-American partnership with Walworth County, Wisconsin. The partner county has a population of around 100,000 and is situated in the south of Wisconsin, 80 miles west of Chicago. Agriculture and tourism play a major role there, just as they do in the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg. The aim is to promote social progress and business relations through the exchange of views and experiences in the fields of education and training, youth exchanges, science, the arts, culture, the economy and trade.