Uniting Europe - A Star for Dresden; 5th Sponsored Bike Tour to Support the Rebuilding of the Frauenkirche in Dresden.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Business Editors MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4651540 MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004 The Munich "friends of the Dresden Frauenkirche The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany, located on the Dresden Neumarkt. The Dresden Frauenkirche was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II and has been reconstructed as a landmark symbol of in Munich" (FDFM FDFM Familial Dyskinesia and Facial Myokymia ) have once again organized a public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most tour for the Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady). This tour in the time June 10th -20th, 2004 is the fifth to be organized by the association. Cycling enthusiasts from Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Mecklenburg–West Pomerania (mĕk`lənb  rkh pämərā`nēə), state (1994 pop. 1,890,000), 9,201 sq mi (23,838 sq km), NE Germany, bordering on the Baltic Sea. , Saxony Saxony (săk`sənē), Ger. Sachsen, Fr. Saxe, state (1994 pop. 4,901,000), 7,078 sq mi (18,337 sq km), E central Germany. Dresden is the capital. and Vienna will be taking part to publicize the rebuilding of Germany's most beautiful protestant Baroque church and to raise donations. The twelve participants will cycle the entire route of approximately 1000 km in eleven days. Their aim is to arouse public interest in this major European project and their campaign is entitled/motto is "A star for Dresden". The star is a symbol for reconciliation, partnership, peace and friendship and the five starting points in Munich (1995), Venice (1996), Newcastle (1998), Paris (2001) and this year in Budapest, create a star formation around the church. The Dresden Frauenkirche is situated practically in the geographic center of Europe - and is the center of this star of connections, making it a very suitable meeting place for people who seek to promote lasting peace and understanding between all nations. At 9:00 a.m. on Friday, June 11, 2004, the tour will start in Budapest (welcome speeches on June 10: Cegled-Budapest). The route will take the cyclists through Gyoer, Sopron, Horn, Jindrichuv Hradec, Prague, Usti und Pirna and they are expected to arrive in Dresden on Sunday, June 20, 2004 at midday. The arrival has been planned to coincide with the placing of the cross on the dome, which will take place on June 22, 2004. The dome's cross was presented to the Frauenkirche by Britain's Dresden Trust, four years ago. In 1998 the FDFM campaigned for the goals of this association with their cycle tour through England. This fifth tour also represents a gesture of thanks to the people of Austria, the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. and Hungary. It is their peaceful actions and initiatives that helped pull down the iron curtain Iron Curtain Political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. . Without their contribution, this project to rebuild the Dresden Frauenkirche would not have been possible. Highlights of 1989 are such memorable events as the "Pan European picnic" on August 19 in Fertoerakos (Kroisbach) and the issue in the German Embassy in Prague on September 30 of travel permits to 4,500 East German citizens by Hans Dietrich Genscher, then Foreign Minister of West Germany West Germany: see Germany. . This year's tour will make stops at both places. During the tour, there will be many encounters with the new citizens of the extended European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community . With our "Welcome to Europe!" project, we want to make our own contribution towards strengthening European integration European integration is the process of political, legal, economic (and in some cases social and cultural) integration of European states, including some states that are partly in Europe. . All five cycle tours collected donations amounting to more than 100,000 euros for the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche. The patron of the FDFM's fifth cycle tour is Ingolf Rossberg, Mayor of Dresden. In their various speeches on these tours, the bishop of Saxony Volker Kress, former Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, as well as the German Ambassadors in Budapest and Prague, Ms. Ursula Seiler-Albring and Dr. Michael Libal, have all given special praise to the FDFM's activities. Further information regarding this project is available under: www.fdf-m.de MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4651540 |
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