World Heritage Sites

Very rarely will you find as many unique sites of natural and cultural interest situated so closely together as in Germany. As of 2012, there are 37 UNESCO World Heritage sites in Germany that have been designated as sites of "extraordinary universal interest", and have been placed under the protection of international conventions. Of these, 34 are cultural, and three, natural heritage sites.

Cultural Heritage Sites	since
Aachen Cathedral	1978
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch	1991
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau	1996
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates	2008
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl	1984
Classical Weimar	1998
Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg	1994
Cologne Cathedral	1996
Fagus Factory in Alfeld	2011
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	1987
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz	2000
Hanseatic City of Lübeck	1987
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar	2002
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg	1996
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth	2012
Maulbronn Monastery Complex	1993
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System	1992
Monastic Island of Reichenau	2000
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin	1999
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski	2004
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof	2006
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin	1990
Pilgrimage Church of Wies	1983
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps	2011
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier	1986
Speyer Cathedral	1981
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim	1985
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen	2004
Town of Bamberg	1993
Upper Middle Rhine Valley	2002
Völklingen Ironworks	1994
Wartburg Castle	1999
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square	1981
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen	2001
Natural Heritage Sites	since
Messel Pit Fossil Site	1995
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany	2007, 2011
The Wadden Sea	2009