World Heritage in Denmark

Jelling Roskilde Kronborg Castle Stevns Klint Danish Wadden Sea Ilulissat Icefjord , Kujataa & Aasivissuit - Nipisat (off the map) Christiansfeld Parforce hunting landscape

World Heritage Sites in Denmark

The world heritage in Denmark (as of 2018) includes ten UNESCO world heritage sites , including seven world cultural heritage sites and three world natural heritage sites. Denmark ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1979, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1994. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2017.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Denmark in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion on the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Jelling burial mounds, runes and church	1994	K	697	The world heritage site includes the village church of Jelling , two nearby burial mounds and the two rune stones of Jelling . The rune stones are dedicated to Danish kings and address their deeds. They emerged from the middle to the end of the 10th century.
	Roskilde Cathedral	1995	K	695	Roskilde Cathedral, completed in 1280, is the first Gothic cathedral made of brick and contributed significantly to the spread of brick Gothic.
	Kronborg Castle near Helsingør	2000	K	696	Kronborg Castle is a fortress in Helsingør on a headland at the far northeast end of the Danish island of Zealand .
	Ilulissat Icefjord (Greenland)	2004	N	1149	Ilulissat Icefjord has contributed a lot to research into the structure of the Greenland ice sheet, climate change and related geomorphological processes due to its enormous dimensions and easy accessibility.
	Wadden Sea	2014	N	1314	In 2014, the Unesco Wadden Sea World Heritage Site, which to date has only included German and Dutch areas, was expanded to include large parts of the Danish Wadden Sea (Vadehavet National Park).
	Stevns Klint	2014	N	1416	This geological site comprises a 15-kilometer long, fossil-rich cliff. The site offers exceptional evidence of the impact of the Chicxulub meteorite at the end of the Cretaceous Period .
	Moravian settlement Christiansfeld	2015	K	1468	In the center of the city of Christiansfeld there is a well-preserved settlement of the Moravian Brethren .
	Parforce hunting landscape in North Zealand	2015	K	1469	The historical hunting landscapes of the Danish kings include Store Dyrehave , the Gribskov forest area and Jægersborg Dyrehave . The baroque cultural landscape in the north of the island of Zealand shows the interaction between man and nature.
Igaliku	Kujataa on Greenland: a Nordic and Inuit agricultural landscape on the edge of the ice sheet	2017	K	1536	Includes the five regions of Qassiarsuk , Igaliku, Sissarluttoq, Tasikuluulik (Vatnahverfi) and Qaqortukulooq (Hvalsey). The cultural landscape was created by two historical hunting and farming cultures: an Old Norse culture from the late 10th to the 15th century and a European-influenced Inuit culture from the 18th century.
	Aasivissuit - Nipisat. Inuit hunting grounds between ice and sea	2018	K	1557	The cultural landscape in central West Greenland includes large winter residences, traces of caribou hunting and archaeological sites of the Paleo-Inuit and Inuit cultures from over 4,200 years of human history. The world heritage site includes seven places from Nipisat in the west to Aasivissuit in the east.

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

Currently (2019) four sites are entered in the tentative list of Denmark. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Amalienborg Palace and surroundings	1993	K	179
	Moler landscape of the Limfjord	2010	N	5474
	Ring settlements of the Viking Age	2018	K	6284	includes the Viking castles Aggersborg , Fyrkat and Trelleborg (on the tentative list since 2010), as well as Nonnebakken and Borgring
	The maritime heritage of the old town and port of Dragør - A 'skipper town' from the times of the big ships in the 18th and 19th centuries	2019	K	6375

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

 Map with all coordinates of former World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Liselund Palace, park and pavilions ( location )	1993-1996	K
	Møgeltønder, Castle Street ( location )	1993-1996	K		Road in the village of Møgeltønder, laid out in 1680 and leading to Schackenborg Castle
	Old town of Ribe ( location )	1993-1996	K		Historic center of the city of Ribe
	Rosenborg Castle ( location )	1993-1996	K
	Before Frelsers Kirke in Copenhagen ( location )	1993-1996	K

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Denmark  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Denmark on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Denmark. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 19, 2017 . 
2. ↑ German names according to the World Heritage List. In: www.unesco.de. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on January 13, 2018 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Denmark. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 19, 2017 . 

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