Built or owned by Germans
Sites outside the current borders of Germany that were built or owned by Germans
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| Zamosc | Rosa Luxemburg's House in the Market Square |
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