Tag: Unesco world heritage site
Bavaria: Bahn wants to sell Bad Kissing station – Bavaria
“Representative station building for sale,” says the exposé of Deutsche Bahn somewhat succinctly, along with a frontal view of the entrance, photographed at a slight angle and a little out…
Landshut wedding in a new version – Bavaria
In June 2023 there will be a pompous wedding again – in the historical drama “Landshut Wedding 1475”. After the last season of 2021 was canceled due to the corona…
Franconian water meadows are to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site – Bavaria
The knowledge of traditional meadow irrigation in Franconia that has been passed on over the centuries is to be included in a UNESCO list and thus receive worldwide recognition. Together…
Bamberg suffers from its positive image. Still – Bavaria
The people of Bamberg are like the people of Regensburg: university, world heritage title – and the streets are getting fuller and busier. Very uncomfortable. What could help? At the…
Refugee camps as world cultural heritage – culture
from Peter Münch, Dheisheh “Welcome to the Dheisheh refugee camp” is written on the gate at the entrance, next to it is a picture of the deceased Palestinian leader Yasser…
Unesco World Heritage in the Netherlands: Poor colonies in Veenhuizen – Travel
As of this year, some of the former seven poor colonies in the Netherlands have been Unesco World Heritage Sites. From 1818 to 1859, thousands of people worked in these…
Unesco World Heritage Site: Why Liverpool is Losing Its Title – Culture
In Liverpool they just continued to build, although Unesco repeatedly threatened to withdraw the city’s world heritage title. Now he is gone. A story about corruption, ignorance and bad taste.…
Pure culture – Reise – SZ.de
Usually, summer is the time of year when foreign guests are drawn to German cities. The climate is pleasant, for example for visitors who come from the heat-plagued Emirates. There…
Unesco: Danube Limes becomes World Heritage – culture
Unesco has designated the Danube Limes as part of the border of the ancient Roman Empire as a new world heritage site. The responsible committee of the UN Organization for…
Limes and Jewish sites become world heritage sites – culture
The world of Judaism once turned along the hundred kilometer long Rhine axis between Mainz and Speyer. A famous quote describes the importance of the so-called ShUM cities, the third…