Borders of the Roman Empire (World Heritage)
| Borders of the Roman Empire | |
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UNESCO world heritage 
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| National territory: |
 Germany , United Kingdom
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| Type: | Culture |
| Criteria : | ii, iii, iv |
| Reference No .: | 430 |
| UNESCO region : | Europe and North America |
| History of enrollment | |
| Enrollment: | 1987 (session 11) |
| Extension: | 2005, 2008 |
Parts of the Roman Limes with a total of 732.5 km have been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as the borders of the Roman Empire in several sections :
- In 1987 the remains of Hadrian's Wall in the north of England were added to the World Heritage List (117.5 km)
- In 2005, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes ( Germany ) followed as the world's second longest ground monument (550 km) after the Great Wall of China (with over 21,000 km)
- In 2008 the Antonine Wall in Scotland was added (65 km)
In the course of time, further sections of the once more than 5000 km long outer border of the Roman Empire are to be added to the World Heritage, so that ultimately more than 20 countries in Europe , the Middle East and North Africa will be involved. Representatives from Germany , Croatia , Austria , Slovakia , Hungary and the United Kingdom have come together to form the Bratislava Group (named after the Slovak capital, where the first meeting took place in March 2003). The group proposed a definition of world heritage:
“ The world cultural heritage 'The borders of the Roman Empire' includes the boundary line (s) at the height of the empire under Trajan to Septimius Severus (approx. 100 to 200 AD) and military installations from other periods that existed on this line. The facilities include legion camps, forts, towers, the Limes Street, artificial barriers and directly connected civil facilities. "
Other components currently on the German tentative list are the Danube Limes (since 2015, together with Austria ) and the Lower German Limes (since 2018, together with the Netherlands ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The world heritage "Frontiers of the Roman Empire". German Limes Commission , 2018, accessed on July 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Limes. German Limes Commission , 2018, accessed on July 1, 2018 .
Cultural heritage:
Aachen Cathedral (1978) |
Speyer Cathedral (1981) |
Würzburg Residence with Hofgarten and Residenzplatz (1981) |
Pilgrimage Church on the Wies (1983) |
Palaces of Augustusburg and Falkenlust in Brühl (1984) |
Cathedral and Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim (1985) |
Roman monuments, cathedral and Church of Our Lady in Trier (1986) |
Historic Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1987) |
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (1990) |
Lorsch Abbey (1991) |
Rammelsberg mine, old town of Goslar and Upper Harz water management (1992) |
Maulbronn Monastery Complex (1993) | Old Town of Bamberg (1993) |
Collegiate Church , Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg (1994) |
Völklinger Hütte (1994) |
Cologne Cathedral (1996) |
The Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau (1996, 2017) |
Luther memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg (1996) |
Classic Weimar (1998) |
Museum Island Berlin (1999) |
Wartburg (1999) |
Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm (2000) |
Reichenau Monastery Island (2000) |
Zeche Zollverein and coking plant Zollverein (2001) |
Upper Middle Rhine Valley (2002) |
Old towns of Stralsund and Wismar (2002) |
Bremen Town Hall and Bremen Roland (2004) |
Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau (2004) |
Limits of the Roman Empire : Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes (2005) |
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof (2006) |
Settlements of Berlin Modernism (2008) |
Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps (2011) |
Fagus factory in Alfeld (2011) |
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth (2012) |
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (2013) |
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey (2014) |
Hamburger Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel with Chilehaus (2015) |
The architectural work of Le Corbusier : two houses in the Weißenhofsiedlung (2016) |
Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Alb (2017) |
Archaeological border complex Haithabu and Danewerk (2018) |
Naumburg Cathedral (2018) |
Ore Mountains Mining Region (2019) |
Augsburg water management system (2019)
Natural heritage:
Messel Pit (1995) |
Wadden Sea of the North Sea (2009) |
Old beech forests (2011)
Former World Heritage:
Dresden Elbe Valley Cultural Landscape (2004–2009)
Heritage: Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral (1986) | Ironbridge Gorgewith The Iron Bridge (1986) | Studley Royal Park with the ruins of Fountains Abbey (1986) | Stonehenge, Avebury, and Associated Monuments of Megalithic Culture (1986) | King Edward's castles and city walls in Gwynedd (1986) | Blenheim Palace (1987) | Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey with St Margaret's Church (1987) | Downtown Bath (1987) | Borders of the Roman Empire : Hadrian's Wall (1987) and Antonine Wall (2008) | Tower of London (1988) | Cathedral , St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's Church in Canterbury (1988) | Edinburgh Old and New Town (1995) | Maritime Greenwich (1997) | The Heart of Neolithic Orkney (1999) | Old town of Saint George's (Bermuda) with fortifications (2000) | Blaenavon industrial landscape (2000) | New Lanark Industrial Model Estate (2001) | Saltaire industrial village (2001) | Derwent Valley Mills (2001) | Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew (2003) | Liverpool - Maritime Trade City (2004, R ) | Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2006) | Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (2009) | Forth Bridge (2015) | Gorham Cave (2016) | Lake District (2017) | Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory (2019)
Natural Heritage: Giant's Causeway and Coast (1986) | Henderson (Pitcairn Islands) (1988) | Gough Island and Inaccessible (1995) | Dorset and East Devon Coast (2001)
Cultural / Natural Heritage: St. Kilda (Scotland) (1986)