Culture
As a place, a UNESCO world heritage site is
Teotihuacan, the Taj Mahal, Cologne Cathedral: all are world heritage. Currently, the international Committee, who comes to the coveted list advises. We have been Nominated for and watch a behind-the-Scenes.
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Gibraltar: in the cave
From the output of the Gorham’s cave of the views of the Mediterranean sea. Much of the interior view is, however, A narrow corridor opens into a kind of tomb. And there, the Sensation: The previous inhabitants, the Neanderthals, have immortalized there on the walls. The engravings are to be, and 39,000 years old. So far, art has been assigned on the Rock, always the modern man.
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Caribbean: anchor
It is the first candidacy of the island state of Antigua and Barbuda. The historical harbour, “Nelson’s Dockyard” is located in a natural harbour. Already in 1671, the English settled here, later, the Harbor became the base for an important marine. Today, many historic buildings have been restored and the facility is the largest open-air Museum of the Caribbean.
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Greece: Ancient Power Politics
Philippi – this town is ancient, founded in 362 BC, it was part of the Roman Empire and the historical venue for the double battle between the Caesar’s murderers Brutus and Cassius and Antony and Octavian on the other side. Is handed down to them, nor the saying of “In Philippi we’ll meet again” that Shakespeare addressed in his Roman drama “Julius Caesar”.
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Canada: in the past, feared, today, unique
“Mistaken Point” means the point and describes what sailors went here once: In case of fog, they were confusing the location with the adjacent port of Cape Race and crashed onto the rocks. Protect the value of this tip is in Newfoundland, however, especially for its more than 500 million years old Fossil belonging to the oldest finds in the world.
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Germany: Timeless Architecture
Le Corbusier was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Century. Nominated for the world heritage site is not a single house, but an entire movement: 17 buildings in Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, and Switzerland. As part of the series, the Corbusier building in Stuttgart, the only contribution from Germany in this year.
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France: Extinct Fire Eaters
One hundred inactive volcanoes in this landscape in the French massif Central. Already in the 19th century. Century were the first tourists through the volcanic chain of the “Chaine des Puys”. The significance of this lunar landscape, but also for volcanologists, the research here also for almost 200 years.
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Gibraltar: in the cave
From the output of the Gorham’s cave of the views of the Mediterranean sea. Much of the interior view is, however, A narrow corridor opens into a kind of tomb. And there, the Sensation: The previous inhabitants, the Neanderthals, have immortalized there on the walls. The engravings are to be, and 39,000 years old. So far, art has been assigned on the Rock, always the modern man.
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Caribbean: anchor
It is the first candidacy of the island state of Antigua and Barbuda. The historical harbour, “Nelson’s Dockyard” is located in a natural harbour. Already in 1671, the English settled here, later, the Harbor became the base for an important marine. Today, many historic buildings have been restored and the facility is the largest open-air Museum of the Caribbean.
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Greece: Ancient Power Politics
Philippi – this town is ancient, founded in 362 BC, it was part of the Roman Empire and the historical venue for the double battle between the Caesar’s murderers Brutus and Cassius and Antony and Octavian on the other side. Is handed down to them, nor the saying of “In Philippi we’ll meet again” that Shakespeare addressed in his Roman drama “Julius Caesar”.
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Canada: in the past, feared, today, unique
“Mistaken Point” means the point and describes what sailors went here once: In case of fog, they were confusing the location with the adjacent port of Cape Race and crashed onto the rocks. Protect the value of this tip is in Newfoundland, however, especially for its more than 500 million years old Fossil belonging to the oldest finds in the world.
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Germany: Timeless Architecture
Le Corbusier was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Century. Nominated for the world heritage site is not a single house, but an entire movement: 17 buildings in Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, and Switzerland. As part of the series, the Corbusier building in Stuttgart, the only contribution from Germany in this year.
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France: Extinct Fire Eaters
One hundred inactive volcanoes in this landscape in the French massif Central. Already in the 19th century. Century were the first tourists through the volcanic chain of the “Chaine des Puys”. The significance of this lunar landscape, but also for volcanologists, the research here also for almost 200 years.
More than 1,000 cultural and natural monuments of the UNESCO world heritage list. It is the most important title, the monuments and the natural regions, often associated with rising tourist numbers and public funding. Areas will be awarded, among others, churches, national parks, rock paintings, burial sites, castles, whole towns, elevators, archaeological sites, Wadden seas, and vineyards. We will explain the processes behind this diverse list.
1. Who decides?
21 Committee members, the UNESCO world heritage Committee. The members come from 21 countries and represent all continents and cultures. They are elected for four years – finally, it should be rotated between the 163 States parties. In this panel, among other things, Vietnam, Finland, Algeria, Peru, and Germany also are represented.
2. Where is the meeting?
The venue rotates. In 2015, the members met in Bonn, this year in Istanbul. The international Committee come together not only for one, two scarce days of this Meeting – it advises ten days (10. to 20. July). In addition to the new additions to the world-famous protection, the preservation will be debated list of States of the previous sites. 156 individual reports are available for this purpose in this year. It is also a matter of money: it is Checked which, in particular, financial weaker countries to be supported with international finzanzierung projects.
The youngest member of the German world heritage list: the Speicherstadt in Hamburg
3. What are the criteria?
Is taken, only those who have an outstanding universielle importance. It is important, therefore, that a place – whether it is culture or nature – meets overarching criteria of uniqueness, historical authenticity, and integrity. In addition, there is a scarce catalogue of criteria out of a total of ten points. For example, the places to be a “masterpiece of human creative genius” or “unique testimony to a cultural Tradition”.
4. How many sites are there in Germany?
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The German world heritage sites
40. It first made it to the Cathedral in Aachen on the coveted list. In 1978, the building was one of the first UNESCO world heritage sites. Today, the dome Cathedral, are also included in Speyer and, of course, the Cologne Cathedral and some of the monasteries in Lorsch, Corvey, Reichenau and Maulbronn. The current state of architectural monuments of the Bauhaus sites in Weimar and Dessau, the Berlin Modernism housing estates and the ‘Speicherstadt’ in Hamburg. Also be protected throughout the old town cores: Bamberg, Bremen, Goslar, Lübeck, Quedlinburg, Regensburg, Stralsund and Wismar. On the list of industrial heritage sites such as the Zeche Zollverein in Essen, palaces and castles, among other things, in Eisenach, Berlin or Potsdam, houses of culture, such as the margravial Opera house in Bayreuth or archaeological sites in Trier. Germany also has six natural monuments to show for it: the Wadden sea, the ancient beech forests in several provinces, the mountain Park William height in Kassel, Germany, the garden Kingdom of Dessau Wörlitz, and Prince Pückler-Park in Bad Muskau and the upper middle Rhine valley. A good Overview of the German world heritage sites multiple travel routes you can get here.
5. What places are on the Red list?
Here are all those world listed heritage site, at risk from the point of view of UNESCO strongly – whether by destruction, damage or Disappearance. Currently 48 places are on the Red list, threatened by war, vandalism, terrorism, natural disasters or urbanisation. Particularly in the Public the cultural assets were last in Syria and the destruction of the ancient oasis city of Palmyra.
This bridge in Dresden at a cost of the Elbe valley a world heritage site title
6. Can be removed place?
Yes, even if that’s only occurred twice. Because no state party wants to lose the title on a voluntary basis. So it comes to conflicts or reminders on the part of UNESCO, so a common solution is usually found. But not always: Germany was deprived of 2009, the title for the Elbe valley in Dresden. Here was built, in spite of warnings from the UNESCO, the four-lane waldschlösschen bridge. The destroy the unique views of the Elbe valley, it said. The negative record for Germany, because the titles deprivation recorded in another country: 2007 has been removed from the Oman of the title, as he was reduced to a desert area of protection of a rare antelope drastically.