World heritage in Norway

Bryggen Urnes Røros Geirangerfjord Nærøyfjord Vega Archipelago S. S. S. S. Alta Rjukan - Notodden

World Heritage Sites in Norway (S = Struve Arch )

The world heritage in Norway (as of 2017) includes eight UNESCO world heritage sites , including seven world cultural heritage sites and one world natural heritage site. Norway ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1977, and the first two World Heritage sites were added to the World Heritage List in 1979. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2015. One of the world heritage sites in Norway is the Struve Arch, a transnational world heritage site.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Norway 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
(more pictures)	Urnes Stave Church ( Lage )	1979	K	58	The origins of Urnes stave church go back to the year 1100 and it can therefore be described as the oldest stave church in the world. The building still preserved today dates from the 12th and 13th centuries.
(more pictures)	Bryggen - port city of Bergen ( location )	1979	K	59	The Hanseatic wharf Bryggen the city of Bergen consists of the former trading posts of the Hanseatic -Kaufleute in Bergen. The former Hansekontor occupies the entire east side of Vågen Bay.
(more pictures)	Mining town of Røros and surroundings ( location )	1980	K	55	In Røros, Norway's only mining town, copper ore was mined from the 17th century. This copper mining has shaped the appearance of the city and its largely preserved old buildings.
	Alta rock carvings	1985	K	352	The rock carvings from Alta represent beliefs or work processes of people between 2000 and 6500 years old. The styles of the drawings differ according to age.
	Vega Archipelago	2004	K	1143	The Vega Archipelago has a history of more than 1500 years of fishing and agriculture and has a unique open cultural landscape.
Meridian stone in Hammerfest	Struve arch	2005	K	1187	The transnational world heritage site includes 34 specially marked geodetic measuring points along the meridian arc named after the astronomer Wilhelm von Struve in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine and Belarus, which were in the first half of the 19th century to determine the exact figure of the earth in Northern and Eastern Europe. In Norway, this includes four measuring points: one each in Hammerfest and Alta and two in Kautokeino .
Geirangerfjord	Western Norwegian Fjords - Geirangerfjord and Næerøyfjord	2005	N	1195	The two western Norwegian fjords Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord represent classic and, above all, particularly well-developed fjord types . They are considered to be by far the most beautiful fjord landscapes in the world and are typical examples for all fjords in the world.
	Industrial sites in Rjukan and Notodden	2015	K	1486	The sites of industrial culture in Rjukan and Notodden include heavy industry powered by water power with associated urban settlements (company cities) and transport systems ( Rjukanbanen ).

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

As of 2017, five sites are entered in the tentative list of Norway, the last entry was made in 2011. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year they were included in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Laponia	2002	K / N	1750	Planned expansion of the Swedish World Heritage Site Laponia (Ref. 774 ) to include the Tysfjord , Hellemobotn Fjord and Rago National Park
(more pictures)	Lofoten ( location )	2002	K / N	1751
(more pictures)	Svalbard Archipelago ( location )	2007	K / N	5161
Jan Mayen	System of the mid-Atlantic ridge	2007	N	5162	The islands of Jan Mayen and Bouvet from Norway belong to the transnational proposal
	Viking monuments and sites	2011	K	5577	The Norwegian proposal includes the ship graves at Vestfold and the millstone quarries at Hyllestad

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
	Mølen	1979-1979	K		1979 postponed
	Vingen	1979-1979	K		Rock paintings
	Eidsvoll-Werk ( location )	1979-1980	K		former iron factory in the district of Eidsvoll Verk the town of Eidsvoll Rejected in 1980
	Kjerringøy commercial center	1979-1980	K		Rejected in 1980
	Heidal Valley	1979-1980	K		Rejected in 1980
	St. Albans Monastery in Selje	1984-1996	K		Ruins of a Benedictine monastery in Selje, built around 1100
	Hardangervidda	1984-1996	N / K		largest plateau in Europe
	Building of the Historical Museum in Oslo	1984-1996	K		Museum building in Oslo built in 1897 in Art Nouveau style based on designs by the Norwegian architect Henrik Bull
	Trondheim's cathedral and fortress	1984-1996	K		the Nidaros Cathedral and the Kristiansten fortress in Trondheim

Web links

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

• Norway on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norway. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ German names according to the World Heritage List. In: www.unesco.de. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on January 13, 2018 . 
3. ^ Tentative list of Norway. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 28, 2017 . 
4. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Norway. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English). 

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap