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Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (RPH) Nomination statement
RPH Forum for Reconciliation:
• The members of the Forum for Reconciliation representing the Hungarian state are the RPH
Management and Development Trust, the National Office of Cultural Heritage, the government
commissioner for the Danube Strategy, the county museums with jurisdiction, water conservancy
agencies, nature conservation agencies and the management organizations for the individual sites,
as well as the town and county governments representing the specific owners of the individual
sites.
• The main tasks of the Forum for Reconciliation are harmonizing the yearly and medium-term
duties, providing expert information, reconciling interests and resolving and settling conflicts in
interest.
• The Forum for Reconciliation holds an annual meeting at the beginning of the year where the
RPH Management and Development Trust reports on the completed work and the planned
future tasks to the owners and managers of the individual sites.
• Any member of the Forum for Reconciliation may summon the Forum together at a time when it
is deemed necessary.
5.e.2 The Management Strategy
The management strategy for protection fundamentally structures the future prospects related to
the excavated or unexcavated sites of the Ripa from a short, medium and long term perspective. The
management/maintenance recommendations are different depending on whether one is considering
remains that are visible on the surface, conserved and able to be visited and that can be integrated into
a possible international system of limes parks, or those areas where only initial steps have been taken,
but in this perspective the known archaeological potential supports realizing the above – at least within
the medium term. The situation is also different if we know that the only well-considered goal is the
undisturbed preservation of the remains for the foreseeable future.
According to the above the following categories have been developed:
Category A sites: – Archaeological parks (limes parks) that already exist or can be developed within the
short term. Included in this category are those sites that are already protected, excavated, conserved and
in some cases pieced together and restored as well as being under constant institutional supervision, and
that can be visited and viewed. They need constant scientific supervision, maintenance management,
development of visitor-friendly infrastructure and tourism management.
Category B sites: – Those sites belong here whose known archaeological finds and conditions make it
possible that within the medium term (i.e. 15 years) they can be developed into category A sites. The most
important concern for these is establishing the proper level of protection, settling the site’s ownership
– expropriations – as well as their excavation or excavation and scientific research, their conservation
or restoration and the creation of the institutional and financial framework for the development of
infrastructure, as well as the establishment of a conception for their utilization and tourism management.
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