UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage , adopted by UNESCO in 1972. |
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Click on the names below to go to the external corresponding page at the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Cultural
Cultural
- Aachen Cathedral (1978)
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch (1991)
- Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke (2018)
- Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau (1996)
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (2013)
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (2008)
- Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey (2014)
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl (1984)
- Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura (2017)
- Classical Weimar (1998)
- Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg (1994)
- Cologne Cathedral (1996)
- Fagus Factory in Alfeld (2011)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987)
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (2000)
- Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1987)
- Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar (2002)
- Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg (1996)
- Margravial Opera House Bayreuth (2012)
- Maulbronn Monastery Complex (1993)
- Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System (1992)
- Monastic Island of Reichenau (2000)
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin (1999)
- Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski (2004)
- Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof (2006)
- Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (1990)
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies (1983)
- Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (2011)
- Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier (1986)
- Speyer Cathedral (1981)
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus (2015)
- St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim (1985)
- Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen (2004)
- Town of Bamberg (1993)
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley (2002)
- Völklingen Ironworks (1994)
- Wartburg Castle (1999)
- Water Management System of Augsburg (2019)
- Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square (1981)
- Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen (2001)
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