Tag: Unesco world heritage site
UNESCO title: Schweinfurt Battle Bowl is a cultural heritage site – Bavaria
When you think of Bavaria, you often think of clichés. This is partly thanks to tourism marketing; However, there are truly worse things than the image of cows on the…
Bavaria: World Heritage application for royal castles submitted – Bavaria
After around a quarter of a century of preparation, the application for the designation of the famous castles of Bavaria’s King Ludwig II as a World Heritage Site is on…
Notre-Dame: How a Franconian helps to rebuild the symbol of the French – Bavaria
Stephan Albrecht is an art history professor in Bamberg. He was awarded the French Ministerial Order of Arts and Literature for his help in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame. A conversation…
30 years of Bamberg’s UNESCO World Heritage status: “This title is not a curse” – Bavaria
The old town of Bamberg has been a world heritage site worth protecting for 30 years. For the historian Karin Dengler-Schreiber, it embodies a universal value. A conversation about beauty,…
Munich: Olympic site in the race for a place in the World Heritage Site – Munich
A stage victory for Munich’s Olympic Park: The Conference of Culture Ministers decided to update the German tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage sites at a special meeting on Monday.…
Franconian water meadows should become UNESCO intangible cultural heritage – Bavaria
Farmers in Franconia have been irrigating their meadows for centuries using a sophisticated network of water scoops, ditches and small weirs. Now the knowledge of traditional meadow irrigation, passed down…
War memorials as UNESCO heritage: Here the Americans, there the British
… and Germans and French sometimes together: military cemeteries from the First World War are now world cultural heritage sites. A journey along the former Western Front brings insights for…
City trip: What makes the World Heritage city of Erfurt so special – travel
It would actually be time now, says Maria Stürzebecher, for a new treasure. And it’s obvious that she would like to jump up and start looking straight away. The art…
Debate about toilets in Regensburg: Almost a fetish – Bavaria
If Regensburg isn’t careful, there will soon be more written about the city’s public toilets than about its most famous citizen, the notorious Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. The city…
Erfurt is a World Heritage Site: Jewish buildings from the Middle Ages added to the list – Culture
Erfurt researched and researched for fifteen years – and then won: UNESCO has designated the Jewish-medieval heritage in Thuringia’s state capital as a new world heritage site. The UN cultural…