Former world heritage
This page lists World Heritage Sites or parts of those that have been removed from the World Heritage List.
Entire world heritage sites
The following sites have been on the World Heritage List in the past, but have been deleted because the criteria for their registration no longer applied or the State party has not fulfilled its obligations to protect the sites.
designation | Country | Type | Ref.No. | World Heritage from / to | Red list from ... to | reasons | |
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Arabian oryx wildlife sanctuary | Oman | N | 654 | 1994-2007 | - | The state had unilaterally reduced the size of the protected area by 90%, poaching and the destruction of habitat had considerably reduced the number of animals. | |
Cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley | Germany | K | 1156 | 2004-2009 | 2006-2009 | The World Heritage Committee considered that the criteria for the original registration due to the construction of the Waldschlößchenbrücke were no longer met in the entire award-winning area. |
Parts of serial world heritage sites
The following sites were part of a serial World Heritage Site in the past, but were deleted because the criteria for their registration no longer applied or the State party has not fulfilled its obligations to protect the sites.
designation | Country | Type | Ref.No. | World Heritage from / to | Red list from ... to | reasons | |
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Bagrati Cathedral | Georgia | K | 710 | 1994-2017 | 2010-2017 | Because the cathedral was reconstructed against the recommendation of ICOMOS, it was deleted from the serial world heritage site Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery in 2017 , Gelati Monastery remained on the World Heritage List. |
Web links
- World Heritage List on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ). The designation is crossed out for World Heritage sites that are crossed out.
Individual evidence
- ^ Oman's Arabian Oryx Sanctuary: first site ever to be deleted from UNESCO's World Heritage List. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, June 28, 2007, accessed June 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Dresden is deleted from UNESCO's World Heritage List. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, June 25, 2009, accessed June 25, 2018 .
- ^ Gelati Monastery, Georgia, removed from UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, July 10, 2017, accessed June 25, 2018 .