World Cultural Heritage

Travelling in Germany

The most beautiful travel destinations can be found in places recognised as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites. Unique architectural and technological ensembles that symbolise special periods of human history can be visited. UNESCO sites are those which are exceptional examples of surviving settlements that reveal the interaction between humans and the environment. This is of particular importance as our environment is threatened in many places by unstoppable change.

World Heritage Site

Industry & Technique

School trip Alfeld

Lower Saxony
Fagus factory - early example of industrial architecture in the Bauhaus style

School trip Goslar

Lower Saxony
Rammelsberg silver mine and the old town of Goslar

School trip Essen

North Rhine-Westphalia
Customs Society Coal Mine Industrial Complex - Symbol of the Ruhr Area

School trip Völklingen

Saarland
The Völklingen Ironworks was the largest steelworks in Europe in the 20th century.

School trip Freiberg

Saxony
Mining region Ore Mountains - Silver mines and old towns

World Heritage Site

Architecture of the 19th & 20th century

School trip Stuttgart

Baden-Württemberg
Corbusiers work - 2 houses of the Weißenhofsiedlung

School trip Berlin

Berlin
Modernist housing estates, five residential areas including the Hufeisensiedlung in Britz

School trip Hamburg

Hamburg
Speicherstadt and the Kontohaus quarter - Chilehaus

School trip Darmstadt

Hesse
Mathildenhöhe with important art nouveau architecture, Rosenhöhe Park

World Heritage Site

Castles & Palaces

School trip Würzburg

Bavaria
Residenz - one of the most magnificent baroque palaces in Europe

School trip Brühl

North Rhine-Westphalia
Augustusburg and Falkenklust Castles

School trip Quedlingburg

Saxony-Anhalt
Half-timbered town with Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town

School trip Eisenach

Thuringia
Luther translated the New Testament at Wartburg Castle.

World Heritage Site

Ancient Cities & Ensembles

School trip Bamberg

Bavaria
Romantic old town with old town hall on a river island

School trip Stralsund

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Tells the natural and cultural history of Baltic amber.

School trip Dessau

Saxony-Anhalt
Bauhaus buildings in Dessau and Bauhaus sites in Weimar and Bernau

School trip Lübeck

Schleswig-Holstein
Old town with Holsten Gate, St. Mary's Cathedral and Buddenbrook House

World Heritage Site

Churches & religion

School trip Pforzheim

Baden-Württemberg
Maulbronn Monastery - Hermann Hesse was a monastery students

School trip Alpenvorland

Bavaria
Wieskirche - colourful rococo work of art

School trip Hesse

Hesse
Abbey and Altenmünster of the Lorsch Monastery

School trip Hildesheim

Lower Saxony
Cathedral and St Michael's Church Masterpieces of Ottonian Sacral Architecture

School trip Aachen

North Rhine-Westphalia
Aachen Cathedral - Coronation site of German kings - Cathedral treasury

School trip Cologne

North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne Cathedral - landmark of the city, shrine of the Three Kings

School trip Speyer

Rhineland-Palatinate
Speyer Cathedral - largest Romanesque church in the world

School trip Wittenberg

Saxony-Anhalt
Luther Memorial in Wittenberg and Eisleben

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