UNESCO Heritage Sites in Germany
A listing of German cultural, architectural, and natural treasures
German sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List (in order of inclusion on the list) are:
Aachen Cathedral (Dom) – the core is Carolingian from around 800.
Speyer Cathedral (Dom) – the largest Romanesque building in Germany.
Würzburg Residence (Residenz) – this sumptuous palace is a synthesis of the European Baroque.
Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) – the definitive work of the Bavarian-Rococo designed by Dominikus Zimmermann.
Palaces Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl – Germany’s first major Rococo palace and favored residence of the Cologne Archbishops.
St Mary’s Cathedral (Dom) and St Michael’s Church (Michaelskirche) in Hildesheim – two important early Romanesque churches.
Roman Monuments, Cathedral (Dom), and Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) in Trier – Germany’s oldest city has its largest Roman monuments and first Gothic church.
Hanseatic City of Lübeck – a medieval town plan and marvelous brick Gothic buildings.
Palaces and Parks in Potsdam and Berlin – the preferred residences of the Prussian Electors and Kings; including Frederick the Great’s Sanssouci.
Abbey of Lorsch – the only Carolingian building to have survived in its original form.
Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar – an important residence of early German kings and the mines a source of wealth for centuries.
Town of Bamberg – the old town, with over a 1000 listed buildings, kept much of its early medieval layout.
Kloster Maulbronn Monastery Complex – the best-preserved Cistercian monastery in Germany.
Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg – a remarkable ensemble of 1,300 half-timbered buildings and an important church from early German history.
Völklingen Ironworks (Hütte) – the only completely preserved nineteenth century ironworks in Europe.
Messel Pit Fossil Site – life as it was known 49 million years ago; finds include 30 complete skeletons of pre-horses.
Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) – the largest Gothic church façade in the world, constructed between 1248 and 1880.
Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau – the origins of this influential design school.
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg – sights associated with the church reformer.
Classical Weimar – a small town but a giant in German literature and preferred home of Schiller and Goethe.
Wartburg Castle in Eisenach – the most German of castles.
Museum Island (Museuminsel) in Berlin – an island in the heart of Berlin with numerous mostly nineteenth century museum buildings.
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz – eighteenth-century English landscape-style gardens.
Monastic Island of Reichenau – three important Romanesque churches.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (Industriekomplex Zeche) in Essen – a major industrial complex with Bauhaus-inspired architecture from the 1930s.
Historic Centers of Stralsund and Wismar – medieval town plans and brick Gothic architecture.
Upper Middle Rhine Valley – natural beauty, wine, and endless castles.
Dresden Elbe Valley – natural beauty and architecture, especially the townscape of Dresden.
Town Hall (Rathaus) and Roland of Bremen – the market square of an important Hanseatic League city.
Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski – a nineteenth-century park split by the Neisse River, or German-Polish border since the end of World War II.
Upper German-Raetian Limes – the frontier between civilized Rome and barbaric Germania ran 550 km from the Rhine to the Danube – Europe’s longest monument.
Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof – Germany’s best-preserved medieval city core.
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates – innovative low-income housing estates erected between 1910 and 1933.
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