Klaus Freisinger Profile
I like the concept of World Heritage, and I like to travel, so combining these two is very enjoyable. However, I don't travel outside of Europe that often, so my ultimate goal would be to visit all WH sites in Europe.
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Delos
Klaus Freisinger Austria - 17-Oct-19
Delos is famous for both mythological and actual historic reasons. It was supposedly the birthplace of Apollo and his sister Artemis, and was thus revered as a sacred site from earliest times. The mighty statue of Apollo was considered to be the most sacred site in Greece (only the base survives today). The island was thus a destination for countless pilgrims, and not only hosted a famous oracle and the Delian Festival, but also the main slave market of the Mediterranean world. During the time of the Delian league and the Athenian hegemony on the seas, it was the location of the league's huge treasury
Read OnWater Management System of Augsburg
Klaus Freisinger Austria - 08-Jul-19
Augsburg is a great historic city with many interesting features and one would have expected a nomination of the historic centre and/or the Fuggerei (the social housing complex built by the world's wealthiest family at the time). The nomination of the water management system came as a bit of a surprise to me, but I guess this is a way to stand out from the crowd of medieval cities and to put a more unique angle on their historic heritage. It's of course not the only WH site focussing on water management, but it does give a rare overview of its historic development from Roman and medieval to modern times. Basically any visit to Augsburg will bring you in contact with this site, and it is very pleasant to walk through this historic city and admire its many beautiful buildings
Read OnVizcaya Bridge
Klaus Freisinger Austria - 08-Jul-19
A short trip to the great city of Bilbao can be easily combined with an excursion to this unique bridge. There are both metro and train lines to Portugalete and Getxo (the towns on each riverbank) and it's just a short walk from the stations. Of course, you can see its impressive silhouette from far away already. The easiest way to use the bridge is to hop on a gondola, which runs every few minutes and only costs 45 cents for pedestrians (of course more for cyclists, motorbikers and cars). The downside is that you don't see a lot of the bridge above you, so for serious visitors, a tour of the footbridge on top is recommended (10 euros). First you walk to the platform above the ticket/souvenir shop, where you will be picked up by a guide and shown the way to the lift
Read OnLuther Memorials
Klaus Freisinger Austria - 30-Apr-19
For anyone interested in history, this is a great site to visit, even though, as mentioned in some other reviews, the authenticity of some of the components is at least questionable. The famous Schlosskirche, for instance, was heavily damaged during the Seven Years' War, and the door where Luther posted his 95 Theses, and which can therefore be considered the birthplace of the Protestant faith, was destroyed by fire. What you can see now is just a 19th-century replica. The church itself is still quite impressive and an interesting place to visit (especially for the tombs of Luther and Melanchthon). Equally impressive is St
Read OnNaumburg Cathedral
Klaus Freisinger Austria - 21-Apr-19
Naumburg Cathedral is clearly not the first cathedral on the list and it's a fair guess that it won't be the last, but I have to say it is one of the nicest ones - by which I mean that it is really well-preserved, with hardly any post-medieval alterations, and gives the look and feel of an authentic church from the Middle Ages. Its four towers can be seen from far away, and its interior is full of fine late Romance and early Gothic archiecture, especially the works by the so-called Naumburg Master. There is also a very nice cloister and a treasury
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- Klaus Freisinger
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- Austria
- Most Impressive
- Rome and Grand Canyon
- Proposal
- Mount Vesuvius and Phlegreian Fields, Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge, Windsor Castle, Death Valley National Park, Old Town of Hall in Tirol and Schwaz Silver Mines, Historic Centre of Innsbruck and Ambras Castle, Bavarian Royal Castles, Moon Landing Sites: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center and Houston/Johnson Space Center (Mission Control)
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Dominican Republic . Estonia . Holy See . Luxembourg . Malta . Moldova . San Marino .Visited WHS
Rating StatsRome 5Uluru 5Acropolis 4.5Ancient Thebes 4.5Florence 4.5Granada 4.5Nubian Monuments 4.5Ravenna 4.5Stonehenge 4.5Vatican City 4.5Belem 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Carthage 4Cordoba 4Delos 4Kraków 4Meteora 4Olympia 4Pompei 4Prague 4Salzburg 4Sintra 4Toledo 4Trier 4Vienna 4Aquileia 3.5Arles 3.5Assisi 3.5Blenheim Palace 3.5Cahokia Mounds 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Classical Weimar 3.5Dolomites 3.5Dubrovnik 3.5El Escurial 3.5Epidaurus 3.5Fontainebleau 3.5Graz 3.5Kairouan 3.5Mérida 3.5Naples 3.5Plitvice Lakes 3.5Potsdam 3.5Quedlinburg 3.5Québec 3.5Regensburg 3.5Reims 3.5Rhaetian Railway 3.5Schönbrunn 3.5Segovia 3.5Siena 3.5Skocjan Caves 3.5Southern Öland 3.5Speyer Cathedral 3.5Split 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Tallinn 3.5Valletta 3.5Verona 3.5Visby 3.5Vizcaya Bridge 3.5Zollverein 3.5Avila 3Bamberg 3Bordeaux 3Bryggen 3Caceres 3Corfu 3Elvas 3Ibiza 3Kotor 3Matera 3Nancy 3Riga 3Tarraco 3Telc 3Trogir 3Urbino 3Vilnius 3Albi 2.5Aranjuez 2.5Bauhaus Sites 2.5Belfries 2.5Cuenca 2.5Drottningholm 2.5Evora 2.5Ferrara 2.5Genoa 2.5Jelling 2.5Karlskrona 2.5Kernavė 2.5Kew Gardens 2.5Medina of Sousse 2.5Modena 2.5Muskauer Park 2.5Pannonhalma 2.5Provins 2.5Saint-Emilion 2.5Stari Grad Plain 2.5Trebic 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Le Havre 2Nice 2Saltaire 2Warsaw 2Reviewed WHS
- Delos
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Luther Memorials
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Margravial Opera House
- Medina Azahara
- Serra de Tramuntana
- Old City of Berne
- Riga
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Belem
- Sintra
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Evora
- Elvas
- Aranjuez
- Alcala de Henares
- Cuenca
- Studley Royal Park
- Liverpool
- Saltaire
- Vilnius
- Giant's Causeway
- New Lanark
- Kernavė
- Forth Bridge
- Le Havre
- Speyer Cathedral
- Ferrara
- Ravenna
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- Santo Domingo
- Everglades
- Bauhaus Sites
- Classical Weimar
- Wartburg Castle
- Vézère Valley
- Canal du Midi
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Albi
- Arles
- Pont du Gard
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Flemish Béguinages
- Van Nellefabriek
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Messel Pit
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Toledo
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Mérida
- Caceres
- Salamanca
- Avila
- Segovia
- El Escurial
- Pannonhalma
- Centennial Hall
- Churches of Peace
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Warsaw
- Quedlinburg
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- St. George, Bermuda
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Crespi d'Adda
- Genoa
- Modena
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Stonehenge
- Blenheim Palace
- Kew Gardens
- Dolomites
- Durmitor National Park
- Kotor
- Dubrovnik
- Stari Grad Plain
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Trogir
- Split
- Cordoba
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Ibiza
- Palmeral of Elche
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Saint-Emilion
- Bordeaux
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Jelling
- Kronborg Castle
- Rhaetian Railway
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Karlskrona
- Southern Öland
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Longobards in Italy
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Beemster Polder
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Banska Stiavnica
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Bardejov Town
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Urbino
- Cahokia Mounds
- Bamberg
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Valletta
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Muskauer Park
- Reichenau
- Abbey of St Gall
- Würzburg Residence
- Provins
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Holy Trinity Column
- Litomysl Castle
- Visby
- Drottningholm
- Plitvice Lakes
- Regensburg
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Kraków
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Aquileia
- Kinderdijk
- Skocjan Caves
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Bourges Cathedral
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Amiens Cathedral
- Belfries
- Assisi
- Olympia
- Epidaurus
- Poblet Monastery
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Tarraco
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Historic Cairo
- Ancient Thebes
- Nubian Monuments
- Potsdam
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Tallinn
- Fontainebleau
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Versailles
- Loire Valley
- Chartres Cathedral
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Zollverein
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Castel del Monte
- Matera
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Trier
- Cologne Cathedral
- Aachen Cathedral
- Kutna Hora
- Tugendhat Villa
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Holasovice
- Telc
- Trebic
- Corfu
- Sydney Opera House
- Monticello
- Edinburgh
- Reims
- Nancy
- Strasbourg
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Mount Athos
- City of Bath
- Meteora
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Thessalonika
- Westminster
- Acropolis
- Tower of London
- Maritime Greenwich
- Schönbrunn
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Canterbury
- Rome
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Brugge
- Vienna
- Vatican City
- City of Luxembourg
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Great Barrier Reef
- Cesky Krumlov
- Prague
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Bryggen
- Pompei
- Québec
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Independence Hall
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Statue of Liberty
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Semmering Railway
- Florence
- Carthage
- Budapest
- Kakadu National Park
- Medina of Tunis
- Olympic National Park
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Siena
- Kairouan
- Verona
- Medina of Sousse
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Naples
- Salzburg
- Uluru
- Graz
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
Visited TWHS
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library
- Atacama Desert
- Cape York and the islands of the Torres Strait
- Death Valley National Park
- Ephesus
- Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
- Lake Titicaca
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Monte Verde
- Mt Kailash
- Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Okavango Delta
- Sites Mégalithiques de Carnac
- Svalbard
- The Archaeological Site of Göbeklitepe
- The Sacred Complex of Babylon
- Torres del Paine National Park
- Ur
- Vatnajökull National Park
Top 200 WHS
- Mount Etna
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Isole Eolie
- Brasilia
- Cordoba
- Salzburg
- Edinburgh
- Toledo
- Prague
- Sana'a
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Rome
- Istanbul
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Canal du Midi
- Semmering Railway
- Mountain Railways of India
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Angkor
- Vézère Valley
- Altamira Cave
- Danube Delta
- Everglades
- Lake Malawi
- Iguacu
- Plitvice Lakes
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park
- Iguazu National Park
- Okavango Delta
- Lake Baikal
- Victoria Falls
- Pantanal
- Kenya Lake System
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Neolithic Orkney
- Brú na Bóinne
- Kakadu National Park
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Nasca Lines
- Çatalhöyük
- Stonehenge
- Copán
- Uxmal
- Tiwanaku
- Chichen-Itza
- Teotihuacan
- Chaco Culture
- Classical Weimar
- Valletta
- Riga
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Tyre
- Carthage
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- El Escurial
- Schönbrunn
- Potsdam
- Versailles
- Imperial Palace
- Rapa Nui
- Pasargadae
- Palmyra
- Nemrut Dag
- Petra
- Persepolis
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Dolomites
- Huascaran National Park
- Putorana Plateau
- Machu Picchu
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Tower of London
- Castel del Monte
- Masada
- Great Wall
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Statue of Liberty
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Regensburg
- Vilnius
- Longobards in Italy
- Avila
- Strasbourg
- Avignon
- Seville
- Santiago de Compostela
- Tallinn
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Rhodes
- San Gimignano
- Budapest
- Brugge
- Vienna
- Kraków
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Siena
- Maritime Greenwich
- Cocos Island
- Wadden Sea
- Socotra Archipelago
- Peninsula Valdes
- Shark Bay
- Great Barrier Reef
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Cuzco
- South China Karst
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Mount Taishan
- Los Glaciares
- Te Wahipounamu
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Redwood
- Kinabalu Park
- Cape Floral Region
- Serengeti
- Ngorongoro
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Aldabra Atoll
- Gulf of California
- Ancient Kyoto
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Nahanni National Park
- Grand Canyon
- Ancient Thebes
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Salamanca
- Monticello
- Virunga National Park
- Tassili n'Ajjer
- Namib Sand Sea
- Fujisan
- Papahanaumokuakea
- Loire Valley
- Orkhon Valley
- Pergamon
- Uluru
- Persian Garden
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Thingvellir
- Lima
- Old Havana
- Santo Domingo
- Salvador de Bahia
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Quito
- Cartagena
- Potosi
- Québec
- Meroe
- Great Zimbabwe
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Abbey of St Gall
- Canterbury
- Assisi
- Chartres Cathedral
- Mount Athos
- Westminster
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Bethlehem
- Aachen Cathedral
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Borobudur
- Potala Palace
- Kathmandu Valley
- Samarkand
- Kairouan
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Arles
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Pompei
- Ephesus
- Troy
- Acropolis
- Olympia
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Timbuktu
- Aksum