UNESCO World Heritage sites in Germany

	1978 Aachen Cathedral			1995 Messel Pit Fossil site
	1981 Speyer Cathedral			1996 Cologne Cathedral
	1981 Würzburg Residence, with the Court Gardens and Residence Square			1996 Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
	1983 Pilgrimage Church of Wies			1996 Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
	1984 Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl			1998 Classical Weimar
	1985 St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim			1999 Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
	1986 Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier			1999 Wartburg Castle
	1987 Hanseatic City of Lübeck			2000 Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
	1990 Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin			2000 Monastic Island of Reichenau
	1991 Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch			2001 Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
	1992 Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar			2002 Upper Middle Rhine Valley
	1993 Town of Bamberg			2002 Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
	1993 Maulbronn Monastery Complex			2004 The Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
	1994 Collegiate Church, Castle, and old Town of Quedlinburg			2004 Dresden Elbe Valley - removed 2009
	1994 Völklingen Ironworks			2006 Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
				2008 Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
	Jointly with Poland:			Jointly with the Netherlands:
	2004 Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski			2009 Wadden Sea Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area and the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein

The World Heritage List was established under terms of The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted in November 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO.
The Convention states that a World Heritage Committee "will establish, keep up-to-date and publish" a World Heritage List of cultural and natural properties, submitted by the States Parties and considered to be of outstanding universal value.
One of the main responsibilities of this Committee is to provide technical co-operation under the World Heritage Fund for the safeguarding of World Heritage properties to States Parties whose resources are insufficient.
States Parties can request international assistance under the Fund for the preparation of tentative lists and nomination forms, expert missions, training of specialized staff, and supply of equipment when appropriate; they can also apply for long-term loans and, in special cases, non-repayable grants. Requests must concern work necessary for the preservation of cultural or natural sites included in the World Heritage List or assistance to national or regional training centres.
Emergency assistance is also available under the Fund in the case of properties severely damaged by specific natural or man-made disasters or threatened with imminent destruction.

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