World Heritage Sites in Germany

Site nameEntered
Aachen Cathedral1978
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square1981
Speyer Cathedral1981
Pilgrimage Church of Wies1983
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl1984
St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim1985
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier1986
Frontiers of the Roman Empire1987
Hanseatic City of Lübeck1987
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin1990
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch1991
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System1992
Town of Bamberg1993
Maulbronn Monastery Complex1993
Völklingen Ironworks1994
Collegiate Church, Castle, and old Town of Quedlinburg1994
Messel Pit Fossil site1995
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg1996
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau1996
Cologne Cathedral1996
Classical Weimar1998
Wartburg Castle1999
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin1999
Monastic Island of Reichenau2000
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz2000
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen2001
Upper Middle Rhine Valley2002
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar2002
Muskauer Park/Park Muzakowski2004
The Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen2004
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof2006
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany2007
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates2008
The Wadden Sea2009
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps2011
Fagus Factory in Alfeld2011
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth2012

Deleted sites
Dresden Elbe Valley (2009)

Tentative list of Germany
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe with Hercules and water features.
Corvey Abbey and Castle
Francke Foundation Buildings
Heidelberg, town and castle
L'oeuvre architecturale et urbaine de Le Corbusier / deux maisons du Weissenhof-Siedlung & Stuttgart
Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoøí
Schwetzingen, castle and castle gardens
Speicherstadt and Chilehaus with Kontorhaus District
The Naumburg Cathedral
The Wadden Sea (extension)
VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Danevirke and Hedeby

Sites that have been nominated in the past
Cath of St Marice/Cath Magdeburg
Church of St Elizabeth Marburg
Freiburg Cathedral
Ore Mountains: mining and cultural landscape

Lower Saxony (July 2011)

The new entries of 2011 gave me another WHS within reach from the Netherlands: the Fagus Factory in Alfeld. It's about 450km from where I live, but fortunately my parents live close to the German border and I was able to visit the factory on a day trip from their place. I also revisited nearby Hildesheim, where I was finally able to get into the St. Michael's Church and see two of the bronze objects that give this WHS its fame.

. Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
. Fagus Factory


Germany - Another 2 down, only 2 to go! (May 2010)

Shortly after my return from Central Asia I had 3 days off in a row and I just had to use them in my quest. I flew to Nuremberg, and visited the WHS towns of Bamberg and Regensburg. Both are relatively mediocre sites and offer nothing that I had not seen before. However they brought me very close to "completing" Germany - only 2 still to go!


. Bamberg
. Regensburg


Easter in France and Germany (April 2010)

Over Easter I drove about 1200km through Belgium, Luxemburg, France and Germany. Of course this was to add some new WHS to my score! I admired the gilded iron gates of Place Stanislas in Nancy on Saturday, roamed around Petite France in Strasbourg on Sunday, and ended my tour on Monday at the austere Maulbronn Monastery.

. Maulbronn Monastery
. Strasbourg
. Nancy