World Heritage in Sweden

Drottningholm Palace Birka Engelsberg ironworks Rock carvings by Tanum Skogskyrkogården Visby Karlskrona naval port Grimeton transmitter Laponia Agricultural landscape of southern Öland Höga Kusten Kopparbergslagen S. S. S. S. Gammelstad

World Heritage Sites in Sweden (S = Struve-Bogen ), (without Hälsingehöfe)

The world heritage in Sweden (as of 2017) includes fifteen UNESCO World Heritage Sites , including thirteen World Heritage Sites, one World Heritage Site and one mixed cultural and natural heritage site. Two of these sites are cross-border or transnational . The first World Heritage Site was added to the World Heritage List in 1991, and the last World Heritage Site to date was entered in 2012.

Sweden and the World Heritage Convention

Sweden signed the World Heritage Convention in 1984 and ratified it on January 22nd of the following year . In 1985, the Imperial Antiquities Offices of the Nordic countries began compiling a list of suitable objects on their territories.

In Sweden, the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Reichsantiquaramt) has the main responsibility for the implementation of the principles of the World Heritage Convention. It is also responsible for looking after the cultural heritage sites. The national nature conservation authority ( Naturvårdsverket ) guarantees the preservation of the natural heritage sites. These authorities continue to organize and fund the reports, which are sent to UNESCO every six years.

On behalf of the government, these authorities oversee the nomination process for new World Heritage sites. For this purpose, a working group of specialists in the respective subject area is formed. In addition, the provincial administrations of the provinces concerned are responsible for nominations. Once the documents have been completed, they will be forwarded to the government, which will then make the final nomination decision. Then the files go to UNESCO.

In 1991 the first Swedish property was declared a World Heritage Site - Drottningholm Palace on the island of Lovön near Stockholm. Since then, the number of Swedish World Heritage Sites has grown to 15.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Sweden 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
	Drottningholm Royal Summer Palace ( location )	1991	K	559	Royal summer palace on Lake Mälaren near Stockholm
	Viking settlements Birka and Hovgården ( location )	1993	K	555	Archaeological sites on two islands in Lake Mälaren
	Engelberg ironworks ( location )	1993	K	556	One of the most modern ironworks of the 18th and 19th centuries, today an industrial museum
	Rock carvings from Tanum ( Lage )	1994	K	557	Bronze Age rock carvings with figurative representations
	Skogskyrkogården ( location )	1994	K	558	Cemetery in the Enskede district of southern Stockholm from the early 20th century
	Hanseatic City of Visby ( location )	1995	K	731	Trading town on the island of Gotland with important medieval buildings
	Gammelstad church district ( location )	1996	K	762	Settlement of 400 huts around a church in the center of Luleå
	Arctic cultural landscape of Lapland	1996	K / N	774	Arctic cultural landscape consisting of national parks and nature reserves in the far north of Sweden, inhabited by nomadic Sami . The world heritage includes four national parks ( Muddus , Sarek , Padjelanta and Stora Sjöfallet ) as well as the nature reserves Sjaunja , Stubba , Sulitelma , Tjuoltadalen and Rapadalen .
	Karlskrona naval port ( location )	1998	K	871	Main base of the Swedish Navy
	Agricultural landscape of southern Öland ( location )	2000	K	968	Landscape on the island of Öland that has been populated and used since the Stone Age
	Archipelago - Kvarken Archipelago ( location )	2000	N	898	Höga Kusten is a geologically significant coastal zone and a marine ecosystem in the Gulf of Bothnia In 2006 the site became a cross-border World Heritage site with the addition of the Kvarken Archipelago in Finland .
	Historic industrial landscape "Großer Kupferberg" in Falun	2001	K	1027	Historic copper mines near Falun
	Radio station Varberg ( location )	2004	K	1134	Radio station with long-wave transmitter for intercontinental radio links
	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 Sweden there are four measuring points in Kiruna ( Lage ), Pajala ( Lage ), Övertorneå ( Lage ) and Haparanda ( Lage ).
	Wooden farmhouses in the province of Hälsingland	2012	K	1282	includes seven Hälsingehöfe in Hälsingland

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, a site is entered in the tentative list of Sweden, the entry was made in 2009.

The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	The rise of systematic biology	2009	K	5491	The proposal is part of a planned transnational nomination on the history of biology. Six sites from Sweden have been proposed so far, with other countries to follow. The focus here is on the places where Carl von Linné worked .

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.

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Cultural landscape of Markim and Orkesta	1995-2011	K	659	The cultural landscape of the parishes of Markim and Orkesta near Stockholm has been continuously populated since the Bronze Age.

Web links

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

• Sweden on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
• World Heritage in Sweden on the website of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sweden. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 27, 2017 .  
2. ^ Tentative list of Sweden. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 27, 2017 .  
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Sweden. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 27, 2017 (English).  

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap