World Heritage in Hungary
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World Heritage Sites in Hungary |
The world heritage in Hungary (as of 2017) includes eight UNESCO world heritage sites , including seven world cultural heritage sites and one world natural heritage site. Among them is the Neusiedler See , a cross-border world heritage site . Hungary acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1985, the first two World Heritage sites were added to the World Heritage List in 1987. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2002.
World heritage sites
The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Hungary in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in 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 |
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Buda Castle District and the Danube River Bank in Budapest | 1987 | K | 400 | originally comprised the banks of the Danube and the Castle Palace in Budapest , expanded in 2002 to include Andrássy Street and the Földalatti , the oldest subway line on the European continent | |
Traditional village of Hollókő (Rabenstein) ( location ) |
1987 | K | 401 | Hollókő consists of two parts, the old town and the new town. The city burned down in 1905 but was rebuilt. | |
Caves in the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst | 1995 | N | 1624 | the transnational world heritage site includes several caves in Hungary and Slovakia, including seven caves in the Aggtelek National Park in Hungary | |
Benedictine abbey Pannonhalma ( location ) |
1996 | K | 758 | ||
Hortobágyi National Park - the "Puszta" | 1999 | K | 474 | The Puszta of Hortobágy is the largest and best known Central European steppe area . | |
Early Christian cemetery in Pécs | 2000 | K | 853 | Early Christian cemetery in the city of Pécs | |
Fertő / Neusiedler See cultural landscape | 2001 | K | 772 | Neusiedler See with Fertöd and Rust , cross-border with Austria | |
Cultural landscape of the Tokaj wine region | 2002 | K | 1063 |
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 2018, eleven sites are entered in the tentative list of Hungary, the last entry was in 2017. 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 |
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Caves in the thermal karst system of | 1993 | N | 282 | ||
Medieval castle of Esztergom ( location ) |
1993 | K | 277 | ||
State Stud of Mezöhegyes | 2000 | K | 1500 | ||
Ipolytarnóc fossils | 2000 | N | 1502 | ||
Fortification system at the confluence of the Danube and Waag rivers in Komárno - Komárom | 2007 | K | 1498 | ||
Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture | 2008 | K | 5366 | 5 buildings by the Hungarian architect Ödön Lechner in Budapest and Kecskemét | |
Borders of the Roman Empire - Ripa Pannonica in Hungary | 2009 | K | 5452 | On February 1, 2018, a joint application by Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary was submitted to extend the world heritage borders of the Roman Empire to include the Danube Limes . | |
Network of agricultural heritage buildings in Hungary | 2017 | K | 6264 | Proposed as early as 2000. | |
Royal seats in Esztergom, Visegrád with the former royal forest in the Pilis Mountains | 2017 | K | 6267 | Esztergom and Visegrád had been proposed individually since 2000. | |
Wooden bell towers in the Upper Tisza region | 2017 | K | 6268 | Bell towers of the reformed wooden churches of Nyírbátor , Kölcse , Zsurk , Vámosatya , Lónya , Tiszacsécse (all proposed as early as 2000–2017) and Nagyszekeres . | |
Cultural landscape of the Balaton highlands | 2017 | K / N | 6269 | The proposal includes the Tihany Peninsula (proposed since 1993), the Tapolca Basin, the Káli Basin and the Hévíz Medicinal Lake, the Festetics Castle in Keszthely with the castle park, the Georgikon Hof and the historic Balatonfüred district . |
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 |
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Széchenyi medicinal baths ( location ) |
1986-1986 | K | The Széchenyi Spa in Budapest is the largest of its kind in Europe. | ||
Budapest ghetto and 4 synagogues | 1993-2001 | K | |||
Cultural stratification in the historic center of Pécs ( location ) |
1998-1998 | K |
Pécs is one of the oldest cities in Hungary and was already a settlement in prehistoric times.
The proposal was rejected by ICOMOS in 1998 and withdrawn by Hungary |
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Wooden bell towers in the northern part of the Carpathian Basin ( location ) |
2000-2017 | K | The wooden bell towers of Tákos , Uska , Szamostatárfalva , Márokpapi , Csaroda , Szalonna and Rásonysápberencs are no longer part of the 2017 nomination. |
Web links
- Hungary on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hungary. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ German names according to the World Heritage List. In: www.unesco.de. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
- ^ Tentative list of Hungary. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 4, 2017 .
- ^ State Secretary for Science Bernd Sibler on the submitted application for the extension of the World Heritage Site "Borders of the Roman Empire" to include the Danube Limes. Press release from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture . February 2, 2018, accessed February 12, 2018 .
- ^ Former Tentative Sites of Hungary. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).