Built or owned by Germans
Sites outside the current borders of Germany that were built or owned by Germans
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University | constructed by Vasily Pavlovich von Engelhardt who was an ethnic Baltic German | |
| Auschwitz Birkenau | Former German extermination camps | |
| Banc d'Arguin | Arguin was owned by Brandenburg/Prussia from 1685-1721. They built a fort there. | |
| Banska Stiavnica | The Tajchy was planned by local German scientists and designed by Von Erlach | |
| Bardejov Town | German settlers | |
| Bryggen | "Kantor" used / built by Gerrman traders | |
| Budapest | House of Terror, former Gestapo headquarters | |
| Centennial Hall | Built by a German architect at the time in which Wroclaw was a German city | |
| Champagne | Among the most famous Houses, several have their origins in a German personality or family (Krug, Bollinger, Mumm, Heidsieck, etc.). (Nomination file, p. 254) – The Château de Pékin was built by François Abelé, originally from Wurtemberg. (Nomination file, Annexe 2, p. 137) | |
| Churches of Peace | Built by German architects in an area formerly partially inhabited by Germans | |
| Cocos Island | August Gissler was allowed by the Costa Rican government to establish a colony there in 1897. | |
| Curonian Spit | Teutonic Order castles and German farmers / settlers | |
| Engelsberg Ironworks | Mining here started by a German miner | |
| Fray Bentos | Originally founded and built by the German "Liebig Extract of Meat Company" in 1863. | |
| Funerary and memory sites of the First World War | "The German landscape architect Robert Tischer inspired the main principles for the arrangement of the German necropolises with the aim of preserving the sombre character of the cemeteries." and "The series includes 22 German-type cemeteries" (AB ev) | |
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Deutsches Haus in Františkovy Lázně | |
| Heritage of Mercury | Idrija's Town Hall was built by German-born architects Clemens M. Kattner and Gustav Adolf König. | |
| Holasovice | Initially built for settlers from Bavaria and Austria | |
| Istanbul | German Fountain at the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square) | |
| Kraków | Oskar Schindler's Factory | |
| L'viv | Boim Chapel was built by German architect Andreas Bemer | |
| Lamu Old Town | The old German Post Office in Lamu dates back to 1881 | |
| Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape | Owned by the House of Liechtenstein, then part of the German Confederation | |
| Malbork Castle | Built by members of the Teutonic Order, a German Roman Catholic religious order. | |
| Mir Castle | Once owned by Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Fürst von Ratibor und Corvey | |
| Moravian Church Settlements | Built by German settlers | |
| Old City of Jerusalem | Muristan: center of the German colony in Jerusalem in the 19th century, rebuilt the Crusader church of St. Mary Latina as the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (Erl?serkirche) | |
| Old Town Lunenburg | Among the early settlers were many from various parts of Germany | |
| Prague | St Nicolas Church (expanded by Christoph Dientzenhofer), Saxonian House, Palais Wallenstein among others | |
| Riga | Fortress built by the German Knights of the Sword | |
| Rock Islands | "blasted by the Germans to ease boat passage during their 1899 to 1914 Palau occupation" (Lonely Planet website) | |
| Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca | The New Cathedral was designed by Juan Bautista Stiehle, a German-born friar. | |
| Sighisoara | Built by Saxonian settlers | |
| Spissky Hrad and Levoca | Samuel Breuer's printing house | |
| Strasbourg | Strasbourg was German until 1639 (and several times after) | |
| Struve Geodetic Arc | Von Struve was a Baltic German, born at Altona (Hamburg), Germany | |
| Tallinn | Temporarily owned by the Teutonic Order (14th century) | |
| Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine | The “Phase II” of mining (from 1784 to 1910) covers the period corresponding with the Prussian state-led industrialisation process (AB ev) | |
| Telc | Josef Lang's cloth factory [Im ehemaligen Hof Slavatas entsteht im 19. Jahrhundert Josef Langs Tuchfabrik, die fast 600 Mitarbeiter hatte.] | |
| Torun | Castle built by the Teutonic Order | |
| Tugendhat Villa | ||
| Valparaiso | Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepción, a single neighbourhood planned and developed to a large extent by German and English immigrants, with squares, viewing points, promenades, alleyways, stairways and the top stations of some of Valparaíso’s distinctive funicular elevators. (Unesco) | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | The Fondaco dei Tedeschi ("The Germans' Inn") was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the German merchant population in Venice | |
| Verla Groundwood and Board Mill | Verla was grounded by Wilhelm Dippel and Louis Haenelin, both Germans, and Gottlieb Kreidl, an Austrian | |
| Vienna | The Headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna's Hotel Metropol | |
| Villages with Fortified Churches | ||
| Visby | Burmeister House (by wealthy German merchant Hans Burmeister); Many of these houses of worship were built by wealthy Germanic families who made their fortunes trading, bringing Christianity – specifically the Lutheran denomination – when they settled on the island. | |
| Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska | Hacz?w. In the 14th century there was a German settlement there called Hanshof. | |
| Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians | Kezmarok used to be a German settlement | |
| Zamość | Rosa Luxemburg's House in the Market Square |
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