Built or owned by Germans

Connected Sites: 50

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

Connected Sites

  • Centennial Hall
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.43
    190
    7
    Built by a German architect at the time in which Wroclaw was a German city
  • Churches of Peace
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.44
    166
    13
    Built by German architects in an area formerly partially inhabited by Germans
  • Auschwitz Birkenau
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.08
    341
    14
    Former German extermination camps
  • Holasovice
    Holasovice
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.17
    171
    12
    Initially built for settlers from Bavaria and Austria
  • Sighisoara
    Sighisoara
    Romania
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.23
    211
    7
    Built by Saxonian settlers
  • Torun
    Torun
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.25
    192
    8
    Castle built by the Teutonic Order
  • Villages with Fortified Churches
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.44
    178
    12
  • Tallinn
    Tallinn
    Estonia
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.72
    369
    17
    Temporarily owned by the Teutonic Order (14th century)
  • Riga
    Riga
    Latvia
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.54
    355
    15
    Fortress built by the German Knights of the Sword
  • Strasbourg
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.52
    395
    10
    Strasbourg was German until 1639 (and several times after)
  • Engelsberg Ironworks
    Inscribed: 1993
    2.45
    92
    11
    Mining here started by a German miner
  • Old Town Lunenburg
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.10
    100
    9
    Among the early settlers were many from various parts of Germany
  • Zamość
    Zamość
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.04
    113
    6
    Rosa Luxemburg's House in the Market Square
  • Banska Stiavnica
    Inscribed: 1993
    2.92
    152
    10
    The Tajchy was planned by local German scientists and designed by Von Erlach
  • L'viv
    L'viv
    Ukraine
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.61
    132
    7
    Boim Chapel was built by German architect Andreas Bemer
  • Mir Castle
    Mir Castle
    Belarus
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.27
    98
    8
    Once owned by Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Fürst von Ratibor und Corvey
  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    610
    19
    The Fondaco dei Tedeschi ("The Germans' Inn") was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the German merchant population in Venice
  • Telc
    Telc
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.11
    181
    13
    Josef Lang's cloth factory [Im ehemaligen Hof Slavatas entsteht im 19. Jahrhundert Josef Langs Tuchfabrik, die fast 600 Mitarbeiter hatte.]
  • Bryggen
    Bryggen
    Norway
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.19
    248
    8
    "Kantor" used / built by Gerrman traders
  • Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.20
    158
    9
    Hacz?w. In the 14th century there was a German settlement there called Hanshof.
  • Lamu Old Town
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.94
    32
    5
    The old German Post Office in Lamu dates back to 1881
    See www.museums.or.ke
  • Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.93
    80
    5
    The New Cathedral was designed by Juan Bautista Stiehle, a German-born friar.
  • Visby
    Visby
    Sweden
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.29
    102
    7
    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.
    See www.bbc.com
  • Champagne
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.16
    220
    9
    Among the most famous Houses, several have their origins in a German personality or family (Krug, Bollinger, Mumm, Heidsieck, etc.). (Nomination file, p. 254) – The Château de Pékin was built by François Abelé, originally from Wurtemberg. (Nomination file, Annexe 2, p. 137)
  • Banc d'Arguin
    Banc d'Arguin
    Mauritania
    Inscribed: 1989
    2.32
    15
    2
    Arguin was owned by Brandenburg/Prussia from 1685-1721. They built a fort there.
  • Budapest
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.88
    544
    15
    House of Terror, former Gestapo headquarters
  • Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.93
    226
    11
    "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)
  • Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.93
    171
    8
    Kezmarok used to be a German settlement
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    591
    20
    The Headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna's Hotel Metropol
    See www.doew.at
  • Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.55
    86
    7
    Verla was grounded by Wilhelm Dippel and Louis Haenelin, both Germans, and Gottlieb Kreidl, an Austrian
  • Valparaiso
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.12
    159
    12
    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)
  • Tugendhat Villa
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.98
    169
    16
  • Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
    Inscribed: 2017
    2.33
    100
    9
    The “Phase II” of mining (from 1784 to 1910) covers the period corresponding with the Prussian state-led industrialisation process (AB ev)
  • Struve Geodetic Arc
    Struve Geodetic Arc
    Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine
    Inscribed: 2005
    1.92
    212
    18
    Von Struve was a Baltic German, born at Altona (Hamburg), Germany
  • Spissky Hrad and Levoca
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.16
    162
    15
    Samuel Breuer's printing house
  • Rock Islands
    Inscribed: 2012
    4.00
    31
    6
    "blasted by the Germans to ease boat passage during their 1899 to 1914 Palau occupation" (Lonely Planet website)
  • Prague
    Prague
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.28
    585
    16
    St Nicolas Church (expanded by Christoph Dientzenhofer), Saxonian House, Palais Wallenstein among others
  • Old City of Jerusalem
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.36
    274
    12
    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)
  • Moravian Church Settlements
    Moravian Church Settlements
    Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
    Inscribed: 2015
    1.91
    193
    15
    Built by German settlers
  • Malbork Castle
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.61
    198
    8
    Built by members of the Teutonic Order, a German Roman Catholic religious order.
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.82
    168
    10
    Owned by the House of Liechtenstein, then part of the German Confederation
  • Kraków
    Kraków
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.02
    437
    19
    Oskar Schindler's Factory
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.37
    484
    12
    German Fountain at the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square)
  • Heritage of Mercury
    Heritage of Mercury
    Slovenia, Spain
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.65
    152
    8
    Idrija's Town Hall was built by German-born architects Clemens M. Kattner and Gustav Adolf König.
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.28
    442
    16
    Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Deutsches Haus in Františkovy Lázně
  • Curonian Spit
    Curonian Spit
    Lithuania, Russia
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.28
    163
    7
    Teutonic Order castles and German farmers / settlers
  • Cocos Island
    Costa Rica
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.85
    6
    2
    August Gissler was allowed by the Costa Rican government to establish a colony there in 1897.
  • Bardejov Town
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.83
    142
    7
    German settlers
  • Fray Bentos
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.79
    36
    5
    Originally founded and built by the German "Liebig Extract of Meat Company" in 1863.
  • Inscribed: 2023
    1.01
    8
    0
    constructed by Vasily Pavlovich von Engelhardt who was an ethnic Baltic German
    See en.wikipedia.org