Built or owned by Germans

Sites outside the current borders of Germany that were built or owned by Germans

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Built or owned by Germans':

  • Auschwitz Birkenau Former German extermination camps
  • Banc d'Arguin Arguin was owned by Brandenburg/Prussia from 1685-1721. They built a fort there.
  • Banska Stiavnica The Tajchy was planned by local German scientists and designed by Von Erlach
  • Bardejov Town German settlers
  • Bryggen "Kantor" used / built by Gerrman traders
  • Budapest House of Terror, former Gestapo headquarters
  • Centennial Hall Built by a German architect at the time in which Wroclaw was a German city
  • Churches of Peace Built by German architects in an area formerly partially inhabited by Germans
  • Cracow Oskar Schindler's Factory
  • Curonian Spit Teutonic Order castles and German farmers / settlers
  • Engelsberg Ironworks Mining here started by a German miner
  • Holašovice Initially built for settlers from Bavaria and Austria
  • Istanbul German Fountain at the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square)
  • L'viv Boim Chapel was built by German architect Andreas Bemer
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Owned by the House of Liechtenstein, then part of the German Confederation
  • Malbork Castle Built by members of the Teutonic Order, a German Roman Catholic religious order.
  • Mir Castle Once owned by Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Fürst von Ratibor und Corvey
  • Old City of Jerusalem Muristan: center of the German colony in Jerusalem in the 19th century, rebuilt the Crusader church of St. Mary Latina as the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (Erlöserkirche)
  • Old Town Lunenburg Among the early settlers were many from various parts of Germany
  • Prague St Nicolas Church (expanded by Christoph Dientzenhofer), Saxonian House, Palais Wallenstein among others
  • Riga Fortress built by the German Knights of the Sword
  • Sighisoara Built by Saxonian settlers
  • Strasbourg-Grande îsle Strasbourg was German until 1639 (and several times after)
  • Tallinn Temporarily owned by the Teutonic Order (14th century)
  • Telc Josef Lang's cloth factory [Im ehemaligen Hof Slavatas entsteht im 19. Jahrhundert Josef Langs Tuchfabrik, die fast 600 Mitarbeiter hatte.]
  • Torun Castle built by the Teutonic Order
  • Transylvanian villages
  • Tugendhat Villa
  • Venice and its Lagoon The Fondaco dei Tedeschi ("The Germans' Inn") was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the German merchant population in Venice
  • Zamosc Rosa Luxemburg's House in the Market Square