If you are planning a trip to Germany, you should try to visit some of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. I’ve created a listing for you to compare and see which sites you might want to add to your German itinerary.

Germany has whole-heartedly embraced the concept of UNESCO World Heritage by choosing to protect numerous places representing different aspects of their cultural history. Because the World Heritage Site list includes so much, architecture, industry, design, engineering, etc., it would be impossible to visit all of them in one vacation.

Germany has 44 World Heritage Sites, including 3 transboundary sites. There are 43 cultural sites and 1 natural site in Germany.

Name	Date Inscribed	Category	Visited
Aachen Cathedral	1978	Cultural
Speyer Cathedral	1981	Cultural
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square	1981	Cultural
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim	1985	Cultural
Pilgrimage Church of Wies	1983	Cultural
Hanseatic City of Lübeck	1987	Cultural
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl	1984	Cultural
Cologne Cathedral	1996	Cultural	Cologne Cathedral (Köln Dom) (2018)
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier	1986	Cultural
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch	1991	Cultural
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin	1990	Cultural
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz	2000	Cultural
Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg	1994	Cultural
Maulbronn Monastery Complex	1993	Cultural
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System	1992	Cultural
Town of Bamberg	1993	Cultural
Völklingen Ironworks	1994	Cultural
Messel Pit Fossil Site	1995	Natural
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau	1996	Cultural
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg	1996	Cultural
Classical Weimar	1998	Cultural
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin	1999	Cultural
Wartburg Castle	1999	Cultural
Monastic Island of Reichenau	2000	Cultural
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen	2001	Cultural
Upper Middle Rhine Valley	2002	Cultural	Castles Along the Rhine (2018)
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar	2002	Cultural
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen	2004	Cultural
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof	2006	Cultural
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates	2008	Cultural
Fagus Factory in Alfeld	2011	Cultural
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth	2012	Cultural
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe	2013	Cultural
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey	2014	Cultural
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus	2015	Cultural
Naumburg Cathedral	2018	Cultural
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura	2017	Cultural
Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke	2018	Cultural
Water Management System of Augsburg	2019	Cultural
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt	2021	Cultural
ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz	2021	Cultural
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes	2021	Cultural
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski	2004	Cultural
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	1987	Cultural

The table UNESCO - Germany was last modified at 2025-05-02 20:41:51.

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