UNESCO World Heritage in Germany
Note: This is not the official HomePage of the German Section of UNESCO. They have a HomePage of their own...
Revised:
06-Jan-2012
936 properties are now inscribed on the World Heritage List with 725 cultural, 183 natural and 28 mixed properties in 153 States Parties. 36 of these properties you find in Germany - the Dresden Elbe Valley, however, was deleted from the list in 2009!
| 1978 | Aachen Cathedral |
| 1981 | Speyer Cathedral |
| 1981 | Würzburg Residence, including the Court Gardens and Residence Square |
| 1983 | Pilgrimage of Church of Wies |
| 1984 | The Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl |
| 1985 | St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim |
| 1986 | Roman Monuments, Cathedral and Liebfrauen-Church in Trier |
| 1987 | Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| 1990 | Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin |
| 1991 | Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch |
| 1992 | Mines of Rammelsberg and the Historic Town of Goslar (both in German only) |
| 1993 | Town of Bamberg |
| 1993 | Maulbronn Monastery Complex |
| 1994 | The Collegiate Church St. Servatius, Castle, and old Town of Quedlinburg |
| 1994 | Völklingen Ironworks |
| 1995 | Grube Messel, an open-pit mine with 50 million years old fossils |
| 1996 | The
Cathederal at Cologne (German only) -
July 2006 the Cathederal was removed from Unesco's Red List |
| 1996 | The Places of Martin Luther's activities in Wittenberg and Eisleben |
| 1996 | The »Bauhaus« at Dessau and Weimar |
| 1998 | Classical Weimar |
| 1999 | The Wartburg Castle in Thuringia |
| 1999 | Museumsinsel (Museum Island) in Berlin |
| 2000 | The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz |
| 2000 | Monastic Island of Reichenau in Lake of Constance |
| 2001 | Coal-pit "Zollverein" at Essen ...see an image... |
| 2002 | Historical centres of Stralsund and Wismar |
| 2002 | Upper Middle Rhine Valley |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | The Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen |
| 2004 | Muskau Parc / Park Muzakowski (transboundary property with Poland) |
| 2005 | The Roman Limes in Germany (transboundary property Frontiers of the Roman Empire together with Hadrian’s Wall, UK) - German only |
| 2006 | Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof |
| 2008 | Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933. |
| 2009 | The Wadden Sea (Germany and the Netherlands) |
| The Dresden Elbe Valley was deleted from the list | |
| 2010 | Upper Harz Water Management - which extended the 1992 site of Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar |
| 2011 | Fagus Factory in Alsfeld |
| Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps (together with Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland) | |
| The Ancient Beech Forests of Germany and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians (in Slovakia and Ukraine) |
If you read German you may find more details on the German version of this page...
If you have any comments or questions, please contact me:
Wolfgang M. Werner ( )