List of cities with a historical center

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A sign draws attention to a historic town center.

This list of cities with a historical city center provides a global overview of places and cities that have a historical city center (also known as the old town in general ) with monument preservation significance. The additional terms for the individual cities are intended to identify the respective historical city type of a city with a historical city center.

Germany

Heidelberg old town from the castle

Despite severe war damage and the period of partition between 1945 and 1990, numerous old towns in Germany were preserved or rebuilt. Complete ensembles often still exist, especially in small and medium-sized cities with a population of up to around 100,000.

Due to the centuries-long division into different domains, there are particularly diverse historical city centers in Germany with different characteristics.

Austria

The old town center of Krems
View from Kapuzinerberg to Salzburg's old town
The city of Vienna
Linz main square - the old town begins on the left

KHS = Small Historic Cities

Switzerland

Bern from the air
Stein am Rhein with Hohenklingen Castle
Center of Schaffhausen
Fortification Montebello above Bellinzona
Old town, harbor, castle and parish church of St. Johann von Rapperswil
Bull in the canton of Friborg
Nyon, old town and lower town on Lake Geneva

Aargau

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Basel-Country

Basel city

Bern

Freiburg

Geneva

Glarus

Grisons

law

Lucerne

Neuchâtel

Nidwalden

Obwalden

Schaffhausen

Schwyz

Solothurn

St. Gallen

Ticino

Thurgau

Uri

Vaud

Valais

train

Zurich

Belgium

Grote Markt in Antwerp
Ghent
Bruges : Canal in the old town with belfry
Belfry in Aalst
Leuven old market
Charleroi old market

Belgium has a large number of cities with historical centers. In addition, parts of most of the historic cities are UNESCO World Heritage sites , as these UNESCO-protected belfries or beguinages are located. The main cities are listed here:

Brussels

Flanders

Wallonia

Romania

Town hall square in Arad
Old town of Brașov
Old town of Cisnădie
Casino of Constanța
Rădăuți Orthodox Cathedral
Old town of Sighișoara

Bucharest

Banat

Bucovina

Dobrucha

Screeching area

Maramureș

Moldova

Muntenia

Oltenia

Transylvania

Wider Europe (UNESCO World Heritage)

Tallinn : Town Hall Square
City of Rhodes : Old town with Grand Master's Palace
Segovia : old town

UNESCO has recognized over 800 places or buildings as World Heritage. Only a few of them have been included on the World Heritage List as a whole as historical city centers. In other, non-German-speaking Europe, there are the following historical city centers as UNESCO World Heritage:

In addition, there are still very many remarkable historical city centers or their remains in all European countries.

The wider world

Pingyao: The bell tower in Nan Lu (China)
Aleppo Citadel (Syria)

Compared to Europe, UNESCO has only been able to include a smaller number of existing historical city centers as a whole in the World Heritage List, but many archaeological sites and ruined cities. In the wider world, the following 82 historic city centers were declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites (2007):

Asia

25 cities are UNESCO World Heritage:

America

View over the baroque Ouro Preto (Brazil)
Campeche (Mexico): Colonial city center

36 cities are UNESCO World Heritage:

Africa

Caravan town Ouadanea (Mauritania): old tower

21 cities are UNESCO World Heritage:

See also

literature

  • Association of State Monument Preservators in the Federal Republic of Germany: inventory of the historic city centers from 2006 .
  • Karl Kühn: The beautiful old town. Your protection, your conversion, your traffic improvement. A study for the practical evaluation of the knowledge of the nature of the old city . Ernst & Son, Berlin 1932.
  • Uwe Kieling, Gerd Priese (Ed.): Historic city centers. Cities under monument protection . 1st edition. VEB Tourist Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-350-00288-9 .

Web links

Commons : Old Towns by Country  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence