List of World Heritage Sites in Germany
World Heritage Sites in Germany
UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.

List of World Heritage Sites in Germany

Section Title: World Heritage Sites in Germany
Table Section Text: UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.

Site	Image	Location	Criteria	Year	Description

Aachen Cathedral	A Gothic, castle-like building, located in a rural area and surrounded by several trees.	Aachen, Germany 50°46′28″N 6°5′4″E / 50.77444°N 6.08444°E	Cultural: (i), (ii), (iv), (vi)	1978	An iconic feat of architecture that sparked copies around Germany for centuries to come, Aachen's cathedral became the first-built vaulted structure since antiquity.

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch	A stand-alone gatehouse surrounded by many trees.	Lorsch, Germany 49°39′13.284″N 8°34′6.888″E / 49.65369000°N 8.56858000°E	Cultural: (iii), (iv)	1991	The abbey and gate or 'Torhall', are from the Carolingian era. The notable Carolingian sculptures and paintings are still in good condition.

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau	A grayscale image of a modern looking building.	Dessau, Weimar and Bernau bei Berlin Germany 50°58′29.172″N 11°19′46.164″E / 50.97477000°N 11.32949000°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv), (vi)	1996	Founded in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus was the most influential art school of the 20th century. Between 1919 and 1933 it revolutionized architectural and aesthetic thinking and practice, as well as educational pedogogy.

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe	Hercules Monument and the giant cascades.	Kassel, Germany 51°18′57″N 9°23′35″E / 51.31583°N 9.39306°E	Cultural: (iii), (iv)	2013	Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is the largest European hillside park, and second largest park on a mountain slope in the world. Its waterworks along with the towering Hercules statue constitute an expression of the ideals of absolutist Monarchy while the ensemble is a remarkable testimony to the aesthetics of the Baroque and Romantic periods.

Berlin Modernist Housing Estates	Panzerkreuzer apartment building, a white four storey apartment complex	Berlin, Germany 52°26′54″N 13°26′59.9″E / 52.44833°N 13.449972°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	2008	The property consists of six housing estates from 1910 to 1933. It is an example of the building reform movement that contributed to improved housing and living conditions for people with low incomes.

Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey	-	Höxter, Germany 51°46′41.1″N 9°24′34.1″E / 51.778083°N 9.409472°E	Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv)	2014	Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey were erected between AD 822 and 885 in a largely preserved rural setting. The Westwork is the only standing structure that dates back to the Carolingian era, while the original imperial abbey complex is preserved as archaeological remains that are only partially excavated.

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl	A giant stretch of road leads to an open gate enclosing a large palace.	Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 50°49′30.1″N 6°54′35.2″E / 50.825028°N 6.909778°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	1984	Augustusburg Castle, the residence of the prince-archbishops of Cologne, and the Falkenlust hunting lodge are both examples of early German Rococo architecture.

Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura	Baden-Württemberg, Germany Coordinates: 48°23'16.0"N 9°45'56.0"E 48°32'56.0"N 10°10'32.0"E	Cultural: (iii)	2017	Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany.

City Hall and Roland in Bremen market square	A dark stone gothic building in a paved town square.	Bremen, Germany 53°4′33.5″N 8°48′26.9″E / 53.075972°N 8.807472°E	Cultural: (iii), (iv), (vi)	2004	The site consists of the city hall and the statue of Roland that stands near it. The city hall was built in the 15th century when Bremen joined the Hanseatic League.

Classical Weimar	A grayscale image of a small museum with a statue of two men in front.	Thuringia, Germany 50°58′39″N 11°19′42.996″E / 50.97750°N 11.32861000°E	Cultural: (iii), (vi)	1998	Weimar became a cultural center in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Among the many artists and writers, the city was home to Goethe and Schiller.

Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg	A town square with four visible buildings and a few tourists.	Harz, Germany 51°46′59.988″N 11°9′0″E / 51.78333000°N 11.15000°E	Cultural: (iv)	1994	The preservation of old Quedlinberg allows tourists to see 16th- and 17th-century timber-framed houses and walk down medieval-patterned streets, while the Romanesque castle and cathedral, housing the bodies of Henry I and his wife, tower over the town.

Cologne Cathedral	A large, brightly lit cathedral sits in the middle of a skyline at night.	Cologne, Germany 50°56′28″N 6°57′26″E / 50.94111°N 6.95722°E	Cultural: (i), (ii), (iv)	1996	While work on the Cologne Cathedral began in 1248, it remained incomplete until the Prussians picked up the task centuries later, finishing the job in 1880.

Fagus Factory in Alfeld	A very long building with a semi-circular roof.	Alfeld, Germany 51°59′1″N 9°48′40″E / 51.98361°N 9.81111°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	2011	Built by Walter Gropius in 1910, the factory designed to manufacture shoe last was renowned for redefining decorative values of the time period, particularly in the wide use of glass to render the building much more homogeneous, which foreshadowed his later work with the Bauhaus.

Frontiers of the Roman Empire	A very long wall separating two large plains.	Central Lowlands, Northern England, and Southern Germany Germany* United Kingdom* 54°59′33.4″N 2°36′3.6″W / 54.992611°N 2.601000°W	Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv)	1987	Hadrian's Wall was built in 122 AD and the Antonine Wall was constructed in 142 AD to defend the Roman Empire from "barbarians".

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz	A small row boat navigates a wide river, while a forest stands in the background, hiding a large tower.	Saxony-Anhalt, Germany 51°50′33″N 12°25′14.988″E / 51.84250°N 12.42083000°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	2000	"The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an outstanding example of the application of the philosophical principles of the Age of the Enlightenment to the design of a landscape that integrates art, education and economy in a harmonious whole."

Hanseatic City of Lübeck	A courtyard behind a large building with two cone-shaped summits holds flowers and trees on its sides.	Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 53°52′0.012″N 10°41′30.012″E / 53.86667000°N 10.69167000°E	Cultural: (iv)	1987	Lübeck was the trading capital of the influential Hanseatic League, which monopolised trade in much of the Northern Europe. Although a fifth of the city was entirely destroyed in World War II, much of the original 12th-century architecture remains.

Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar	A brick building with a roof tapering dramatically toward the top via large square windows.	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany 54°18′9″N 13°5′7″E / 54.30250°N 13.08528°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	2002	The two towns were major Hanseatic League trading centres in the 14th and 15th centuries. They then served as defensive and administrative centres for Sweden two hundred years later, notably during the Thirty Years' War.

Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg	A statue of a man holding a book stands in front of a white building.	Saxony-Anhalt, Germany 51°51′52.992″N 12°39′10.008″E / 51.86472000°N 12.65278000°E	Cultural: (iv), (vi)	1996

Margravial Opera House Bayreuth	Bayreuth, Bavaria Germany 49°56′40″N 11°34′43″E / 49.94444°N 11.57861°E	Cultural: (i), (iv)	2012

Maulbronn Monastery Complex	Monastery courtyard with the gothic church on the left and monastery buildings on the right	Maulbronn, Germany 49°0′2.988″N 8°48′47.016″E / 49.00083000°N 8.81306000°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	1993	The Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps. The main buildings were constructed between the 12th and 16th centuries, along with the monastery walls.

Messel Pit Fossil Site	An open quarry pit in the middle of rolling, shrub covered hills	Messel, Germany 49°55′0.012″N 8°45′14.004″E / 49.91667000°N 8.75389000°E	Natural: (viii)	1995	Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and 36 million years ago.

Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System	An aerial view showing several dammed lakes within a forested and urban landscape	Goslar, Upper Harz, Germany 51°49′12″N 10°20′24″E / 51.82000°N 10.34000°E	Cultural: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)	1992	The Upper Harz water management system was developed over a period of some 800 years to assist in mining and extracting ore.

Monastic Island of Reichenau	A grey and white stone church with two square towers, both capped with red, pyramidal roofs.	Baden-Württemberg, Germany 47°41′55.4″N 9°3′40.7″E / 47.698722°N 9.061306°E	Cultural: (iii), (iv), (vi)	2000	The site includes traces of the Benedictine monastery, founded in 724, which exercised remarkable spiritual, intellectual and artistic influence throughout the surrounding region.

Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin	An ornate grey stone building on the point of an urbanized island. The building is connected by two bridges to the neighboring banks	Berlin, Germany 52°31′11″N 13°23′55″E / 52.51972°N 13.39861°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	1999	The five museums on the Museumsinsel in Berlin, built between 1824 and 1930, are a unified but diverse collection of museum collections and buildings.

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski	A red, ornate neo-gothic castle in a park-like location, the main tower of the castle is located to the left and topped with an ornate round dome and spire	Upper Lusatia, Germany* Poland* 51°34′45.5″N 14°43′35.2″E / 51.579306°N 14.726444°E	Cultural: (i), (iv)	2004	A landscaped park astride the Neisse River and the border between Poland and Germany, it was created by Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau from 1815 to 1844.

Naumburg Cathedral	Naumburg Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul	Naumburg, Germany 51°9′17″N 11°48′14″E / 51.15472°N 11.80389°E	Cultural: (i), (ii)	2018

Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof	Several early modern or medieval townhouses. From right to left, a pale green house, a large red house filling most of the picture, and a white house.	Regensburg, Germany 49°1′14″N 12°5′57″E / 49.02056°N 12.09917°E	Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv)	2006	This medieval town contains many notable buildings that span almost two millennia and include ancient Roman, Romanesque and Gothic buildings. Regensburg’s 11th- to 13th-century architecture created a town of narrow lanes flanked by tall buildings.

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin	Single story pale yellow ornate palace stretching from the left foreground to the right background.	Berlin, Potsdam, Germany 52°23′59″N 13°1′59″E / 52.39972°N 13.03306°E	Cultural: (i), (ii), (iv)	1990	This site contains 500 ha (1,200 acres) of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916. It extends into the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the palaces and parks lining the banks of the River Havel and Lake Glienicke.

Pilgrimage Church of Wies	Ornate church interior, looking toward the entrance. The interior is white, the doors flanked by two pairs of columns which stretch to the richly painted ceiling.	Steingaden, Germany 47°40′52.6″N 10°54′0.5″E / 47.681278°N 10.900139°E	Cultural: (i), (iii)	1983	The Church of Wies (1745–54) is the work of architect Dominikus Zimmermann and is a masterpiece of the Bavarian Rococo.

Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps	Reconstruction of a pile house at the Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance in Germany	Austria*, France*, Germany*, Italy*, Slovenia*, Switzerland* 47°16′42″N 8°12′27″E / 47.27833°N 8.20750°E	Cultural: (iv), (v)	2011	Contains 111 small individual sites with the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from around 5000 to 500 B.C.

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany	A thickly wooded green forest with a stream bed running through it on the left hand side	Germany*, Slovakia*, Ukraine* 49°5′10″N 22°32′10″E / 49.08611°N 22.53611°E	Natural: (ix)	2007	Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, are used to study the spread of the beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) in the Northern Hemisphere across a variety of environments and the environment in the forest.

Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier	Ruins of brick bath house, only one wall and about a dozen arches are still visible	Trier, Germany 49°45′0″N 6°37′59″E / 49.75000°N 6.63306°E	Cultural: (i), (iii), (iv), (vi)	1986	The Roman colony at Trier was founded in the 1st century AD. It grew into a major town and became one of the capitals of the Tetrarchy at the end of the 3rd century.

Speicherstadt and Kontorhous District	-	Hamburg, Germany 53°32′53.9″N 10°00′10.5″E / 53.548306°N 10.002917°E	Cultural: (iv)	2015	Speicherstadt and the adjacent Kontorhaus district are two densely built urban areas in the centre of the port city of Hamburg.

Speyer Cathedral	Looking toward the choir of a brick Romanesque cathedral. The twin bell towers, the transept crossing dome, and the roof are green copper.	Speyer, Germany 49°19′0″N 8°26′35″E / 49.31667°N 8.44306°E	Cultural: (ii)	1981	The romanesque Speyer Cathedral, was founded by Conrad II in 1030 and remodelled at the end of the 11th century. It was one of the grandest romanesque cathedrals in the Holy Roman Empire and the burial place of German emperors for almost 300 years.

St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim	A romanesque stone cathedral, view of the north side. The green copper dome over the transept crossing is visible.	Hildesheim, Germany 52°9′10.008″N 9°56′38.004″E / 52.15278000°N 9.94389000°E	Cultural: (i), (ii), (iii)	1985	The site consists of two churches in Hildesheim. The Ottonian romanesque St Michael's Church was built between 1010 and 1020.

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	-	Stuttgart, Germany*, Argentina*, Belgium*, France*, India*, Japan*, Switzerland* N46 28 6.29 E6 49 45.61	Cultural: (i), (ii), (vi)	2016	Chosen from the work of Le Corbusier, the 17 sites comprising this transnational serial property are spread over seven countries and are a testimonial to the invention of a new architectural language that made a break with the past.

Town of Bamberg	A stone cathedral with two towers on the west façade and two towers flanking the choir, all four towers are topped with slender, pointed metal roofs.	Bamberg, Germany 49°53′30″N 10°53′20″E / 49.89167°N 10.88889°E	Cultural: (ii)(iv)	1993	In 1007, Bamberg became the center of a dioesce that was intended to help spread Christianity to the Slavs. During the 12th century the Bishops of Bamberg began a program of monumental public construction.

Upper Middle Rhine Valley	A river winds between high cliffs and hills, with a castle in the midground.	Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Germany 50°10′25″N 7°41′39″E / 50.17361°N 7.69417°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv), (v)	2002	A 65 km (40 mi) stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley in Germany. The region is home to many castles, historic towns and vineyards and has been an inspirition for many writers, artists and composers.

Völklingen Ironworks	View from a train of numerous smoke stacks, tanks and pipes.	Völklingen, Germany 49°14′39.984″N 6°50′59″E / 49.24444000°N 6.84972°E	Cultural: (ii), (iv)	1994	The recently closed ironworks are the only intact example in western Europe and North America of an intact ironworks built in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Wadden Sea	A map showing the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. The land is green, the Wadden Sea is dark blue and the ocean is light blue.	Denmark*, Germany*, Netherlands* 53°31′43″N 8°33′22″E / 53.52861°N 8.55611°E	Natural: (viii), (ix), (x)	2009, 2011, 2014	The Wadden Sea contains the Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area and the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.

Wartburg Castle	A castle perched along the edge of a wooded hill. The castle has grown in several stages and consists of sections in dark stone, lighter stone, white plaster and half-timber.	Eisenach, Germany 50°58′0.4″N 10°18′25.2″E / 50.966778°N 10.307000°E	Cultural: (iii), (vi)	1999	Wartburg Castle is located on a 410 m (1230 ft) precipice above Eisenach. It expanded in several sections and only a few of the medieval structures still remain.

Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square	An ornate building on the left side of the picture. In the midground the center of the building projects out, with columns surrounding the main entrance.	Würzburg, Germany 49°47′34.008″N 9°56′20.004″E / 49.79278000°N 9.93889000°E	Cultural: (i), (iv)	1981	The large and ornate Baroque palace was created under the patronage of the prince-bishops Lothar Franz and Friedrich Carl von Schönborn.

Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex	A orange metal tower with several flywheels above a building with Zollverein written in golden gothic script letters.	Essen, Germany 51°29′29″N 7°2′46″E / 51.49139°N 7.04611°E	Cultural: (ii), (iii)	2001	The Zollverein industrial complex in Nordrhein-Westfalen contains all the equipment of a historic coal mine which started operation about 150 years ago.

Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke	Reconstructed houses in the area of the old settlement	Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 54°29′28″N 9°33′55″E / 54.49111°N 9.56528°E	Cultural: (iii), (iv)	2018	Hedeby was an important settlement of Danish Vikings and Swedish Varangians. It is considered an early medieval city in northern Europe and was an important trading place and main hub for long-distance trade between Scandinavia, western Europe, the North Sea region and the Baltic States.

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