Status: 07/30/2021 01:01 p.m.
Germany has another world heritage site: the Danube Limes in Bavaria was added to the list by the UNESCO committee. Because of Hungary, the decision had recently wavered.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has declared the Danube Limes a World Heritage Site. The ancient Roman border fortifications are already the fifth German site to receive this award. At the end of the day, the decision was shaken: the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has declared the Danube Limes a World Heritage Site. The ancient Roman border fortifications are already the fifth German site to receive this award. At the end of the day, the decision was still shaky.
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 Education, Science, Culture and Communication (UNESCO) announced the decision in Fuzhou, China.
In its Bavarian section, the Danube Limes extends from Bad Gögging in the Kelheim district via Regensburg and Straubing to Passau. At the current UNESCO meeting, which will run until this Saturday, Germany has already received its fifth award.
Hungary shook decision
Only cultural and natural sites of outstanding universal value are designated as world heritage. Before the decision on Friday, tension had risen after Hungary left the joint application with Germany, Austria and Slovakia at short notice.
The committee then postponed the decision that was actually planned for Monday and initially set up a working group for further deliberations.
The Limes stretched from Great Britain across Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East to North Africa. UNESCO is striving for the complete transnational inscription of the 6000 km long “borders of the Roman Empire”.
1100 cultural sites in 167 countries
On Tuesday, the Lower Germanic Limes was already included in the World Heritage List, which runs for around 400 kilometers along the Rhine. The border section begins in Rheinbrohl in Rhineland-Palatinate and ends at the North Sea in the Netherlands. In North Rhine-Westphalia there are 220 kilometers between Bonn and Kleve.
The World Heritage Committee that decided on the award is made up of 21 elected contracting states to the 1972 World Heritage Convention. As a rule, it decides annually on the inscription of new cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage List. There are more than 1,100 cultural and natural sites in 167 countries on it. 51 of them are considered threatened.