Tag: Unesco world heritage site
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…
Italy: UNESCO does not include Venice on the list of world heritage in danger – travel
The UN cultural organization Unesco has decided not to add Venice and its lagoon to the list of world heritage in danger – contrary to its intention. The responsible UNESCO…
Bayreuth: Wilhelmine’s global landmark
In 2012, UNESCO declared the Margravial Opera House a world heritage site. Nice – it was just a permanent construction site there for the next eleven years. Now the public…
Outrage after Russian attack on Odessa’s old town – Culture
The Russian attack on the old town of the Ukrainian port city of Odessa has sparked outrage in the West. The blasts hit the city in southern Ukraine on Saturday…
Unesco sites in Bavaria: Bavaria’s legacies to the world
40 years of world heritage are celebrated at the Wieskirche and the majority of the people of Schwangau are in favor of an application with the royal palaces. Elsewhere, the…
Neuschwanstein: Should the castle become a UNESCO World Heritage Site? – Bavaria
Normally, the Unesco title is highly coveted. In Schwangau, however, some fear that only more tourists will visit the world-famous castle. In June they vote on an application. A cancellation…
Stone bridge in Regensburg is being repaired – again – Bavaria
For the people of Regensburg, this sentence must have something from Marmot Day on it: the stone bridge is being repaired. Recently, a minibus drove against the parapet of the…
History: When Voltaire raved about Bayreuth – Bavaria
The French philosopher Voltaire raved about Franconia. An exchange of letters that has now been published with Margravine Wilhelmine, the initiator of what later became a world heritage site, deals…
Construction for “Landshut Wedding” begins – Bavaria
Construction began on Monday, four months before the historic game “Landshut Wedding 1475”, which is steeped in tradition. Among other things, a grandstand is to be set up on the…
Citizens should decide whether Neuschwanstein should be world heritage – Bavaria
In a referendum, the residents of Schwangau are to vote on whether they support the nomination of the fairytale castle Neuschwanstein as a World Heritage Site. This was determined by…