1. Some extra connections for Rammelsberg and Goslar. Did some reading up on the site because of my visit to the region.
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BaroqueRammelsberg and Goslar – "The town was not significantly damaged in World War II and so the historic centre has survived intact, with its original medieval layout and many Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque buildings of high quality." (AB Ev)
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Holy Roman EmpireRammelsberg and Goslar – From the 10th to the 12th century [the town of Goslar] became one of the seats of the Holy Roman Empire. (Official description) "The rich deposits of silver ore there were one of the main reasons for sitting an Imperial residence at the foot of the Rammelsberg mountain by the Emperor Henry II; he held his first Imperial Assembly there in 1009." (AB Ev)
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Hydro Power StationsRammelsberg and Goslar – "Today the water from the Oder Teich continues to flow reliably down the Rehberger Graben to St. Andreasberg and into Grube Samson, where it drives the turbines installed in the two underground power stations and produces hydroelectricity." (Nomination File, p. 31)
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Name changesRammelsberg and Goslar – With the extension in 2010, the name changed from "Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar" to the current name: "Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System". (
WHC Decision)
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RenaissanceRammelsberg and Goslar – "The town was not significantly damaged in World War II and so the historic centre has survived intact, with its original medieval layout and many Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque buildings of high quality." (AB Ev)
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Scientific DevelopmentsRammelsberg and Goslar – A "problem for which a solution was needed in order to make mining at great depths possible was caused by the hemp ropes and iron chains which were used to hoist the ore. (...) The invention of the wire cable by the Clausthal "Oberbergrat" (head mining councilor) Wilhelm August Julius Albert in the year 1834 solved this problem. The cable was one of the most important technical inventions of all for the mining industry and its use spread to all the mining areas of the world in a very short time. It was also an invention that made technical solutions in many other areas possible, for example in bridge construction." (Nomination File, p. 49)
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TombsRammelsberg and Goslar – The tomb of Henry III in the Palace Chapel of St. Ulrich. "Today a sarcophagus stands right in the centre of the cross in the lower chapel, whose cover slab has a sculpture dating to about the middle of the 13th century. (...) The sarcophagus contains (in an octagonal gold capsule) the heart of Henry III, which was interred in Goslar at his own request, and has been kept since 1884 in the Chapel of St. Ulrich." (
Wikipedia - Imperial Palace of Goslar)
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2. I'm
not 100% sure about this connection. What do you think?
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Cultural landscape not recognizedRammelsberg and Goslar – The AB Ev 632bis states that "the cultural landscape concept has strengthened the need for wider protection requiring the definition of an appropriate buffer zone." It suggests a "buffer zone around the whole property is proposed, essentially based on landscape considerations". (AB Ev)
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Adding rationale for existing connections without explanation.
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Hanseatic LeagueRammelsberg and Goslar – "Located close to the Rammelsberg mines, the town of Goslar played an important part in the Hanseatic League because of the richness of the Rammelsberg metal-ore veins." (Official description)
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Silver productionRammelsberg and Goslar – "The remains of the Cistercian monastery of Walkenried and the mines of the Upper Harz bear testimony to the first attempts to systematically extract non-ferrous metal ores (including silver, lead, tin and copper) in Europe, and to develop water-management systems for this purpose." (Official description)
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Copper productionRammelsberg and Goslar – "The copper, lead and tin mines of Rammelsberg mountain, in the Harz region, were worked continuously from the 11th century until the 1980s." (Official description)
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4. Since there has been a
name change in 2010 with the extension, this should also be mentioned
under "Site history".