Hanseatic City of Lübeck
In 1987, Lübeck was the first Old Town in Germany to be officially designated a Cultural Heritage Site. The medieval atmosphere and historically important cultural sights shape the face of the cit...
2,000 years of European cultural history have certainly left their mark on Germany. Nowhere else will you find as many unique sites of natural and cultural interest situated so closely together. 33 of them have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites of "extraordinary universal interest" and have been placed under the protection of international conventions.
A journey to a UNESCO World Heritage Site is a very special and
unique journey into the past. From churches and abbeys, historical
Old Towns, castles, palaces and gardens to industrial monuments,
every one of Germany's World Heritage Sites is well worth a visit.
Let yourself be captivated by the very places where history was
made.
In 1987, Lübeck was the first Old Town in Germany to be officially designated a Cultural Heritage Site. The medieval atmosphere and historically important cultural sights shape the face of the cit...
Regensburg, the 2,000 year old Roman city, is located at the northernmost point of the Danube. Emerging from the Second World War with little damage, it bears many treasures of Roman and Gothic ar...
Welcome to Trier, Germany's oldest city. There were settlements in the Trier valley as early as the 3rd century B.C. and Trier was the first 'town' north of the Alps to bear that label with justif...
As UNESCO explained in its official justification, the Bauhaus ('House of Building' or 'Building School'), with its sites in Weimar (Thuringia) and Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt), represents the so-called...