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:
28 May 1998
UNESCO has inscribed 550 places in the world to the World Heritage List. 19 of these places you find in Germany.
One of these places, the Palaces and Parks
of Potsdam-Sanssouci, however, only just escaped
from getting a place on the Red List of Monuments in Danger.
The Administration of the City of Potsdam should be alarmed ...
If you like to read in
German about this...
| 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 | 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) |
| 1996 | The Places of Martin Luther's activities in Wittenberg |
| 1996 | The »Bauhaus« at Dessau |
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Wolfgang M. Werner wmwerner@compuserve.com