Built or owned by Germans

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

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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
Christiansfeld Built by German settlers
Churches of Peace Built by German architects in an area formerly partially inhabited by Germans
Cocos Island August Gissler was allowed by the Costa Rican government to establish a colony there in 1897.
Curonian Spit Teutonic Order castles and German farmers / settlers
Engelsberg Ironworks Mining here started by a German miner
Fray Bentos Originally founded and built by the German "Liebig Extract of Meat Company" in 1863.
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War "The German landscape architect Robert Tischer inspired the main principles for the arrangement of the German necropolises with the aim of preserving the sombre character of the cemeteries." and "The series includes 22 German-type cemeteries" (AB ev)
Great Spa Towns of Europe Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Deutsches Haus in Františkovy Lázně
Heritage of Mercury Idrija's Town Hall was built by German-born architects Clemens M. Kattner and Gustav Adolf König.
Holasovice Initially built for settlers from Bavaria and Austria
Istanbul German Fountain at the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square)
Kraków Oskar Schindler's Factory
L'viv Boim Chapel was built by German architect Andreas Bemer
Lamu Old Town The old German Post Office in Lamu dates back to 1881
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 (Erl?serkirche)
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
Rock Islands "blasted by the Germans to ease boat passage during their 1899 to 1914 Palau occupation" (Lonely Planet website)
Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca The New Cathedral was designed by Juan Bautista Stiehle, a German-born friar.
Sighisoara Built by Saxonian settlers
Spissky Hrad and Levoca Samuel Breuer's printing house
Strasbourg Strasbourg was German until 1639 (and several times after)
Struve Geodetic Arc Von Struve was a Baltic German, born at Altona (Hamburg), Germany
Tallinn Temporarily owned by the Teutonic Order (14th century)
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine The “Phase II” of mining (from 1784 to 1910) covers the period corresponding with the Prussian state-led industrialisation process (AB ev)
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
Tugendhat Villa
Valparaiso Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepción, a single neighbourhood planned and developed to a large extent by German and English immigrants, with squares, viewing points, promenades, alleyways, stairways and the top stations of some of Valparaíso’s distinctive funicular elevators. (Unesco)
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
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill Verla was grounded by Wilhelm Dippel and Louis Haenelin, both Germans, and Gottlieb Kreidl, an Austrian
Vienna The Headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna's Hotel Metropol
Villages with Fortified Churches
Visby Burmeister House (by wealthy German merchant Hans Burmeister); Many of these houses of worship were built by wealthy Germanic families who made their fortunes trading, bringing Christianity – specifically the Lutheran denomination – when they settled on the island.
Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska Hacz?w. In the 14th century there was a German settlement there called Hanshof.
Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians Kezmarok used to be a German settlement
Zamość Rosa Luxemburg's House in the Market Square

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