Year: 2011

Stuttgart Winkel Tower

Discover Stuttgart Winkel Tower in Stuttgart, Germany: Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

House of the Glockenspiel

Discover House of the Glockenspiel in Bremen, Germany: Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

Peter And Paul Fest

Discover Peter And Paul Fest in Bretten, Germany: One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

Site of the Forest Swastika

Discover Site of the Forest Swastika in Plattenburg, Germany: Remnants of 100 trees that made the Nazi symbol each fall.

The Pig Museum

Discover The Pig Museum in Stuttgart, Germany: An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

The Pig Museum

Discover The Pig Museum in Stuttgart, Germany: An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

Nordlingen

Discover Nordlingen in Nördlingen, Germany: A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Kunstkammer Georg Laue

Discover Kunstkammer Georg Laue in Munich, Germany: One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Jewish Cemetery in Worms

Discover Jewish Cemetery in Worms in Worms, Germany: The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Badeschiff

Discover Badeschiff in Berlin, Germany: Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Waldspirale

Discover Waldspirale in Darmstadt, Germany: A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Castle of Wewelsburg

Discover Castle of Wewelsburg in Büren, Germany: Magical Nazi castle of the SS.

Dachau Concentration Camp

Discover Dachau Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany: The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Kunsthofpassage Singing Drain Pipes

Discover Kunsthofpassage Singing Drain Pipes in Dresden, Germany: When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

Eltz Castle – Burg Eltz

Discover Eltz Castle – Burg Eltz in Wierschem, Germany: This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Spreepark

Discover Spreepark in Berlin, Germany: An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Radio Bloemendaal

Discover Radio Bloemendaal in Bloemendaal, Netherlands: Small transmitter operated by a priest in the Netherlands.

Vorstengraf

Discover Vorstengraf in Oss, Netherlands: One of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
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To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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