Germany - Unesco Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

 

    

   

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Germany - Unesco WHS Schwerin Residence Ensemble

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Germany - Unesdco ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz

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Germany - Unesco WHS Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt

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Tausendschön - Unesco cathedral of Köln - Cologne

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Germany - Unesco The Great Spa Towns of Europe - Bad Kissingen

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Germany - Unesco Neuschwanstein castle

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Germany - Unesco Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Saalburg Fort

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Germany - Unesco Classical Weimar in Thuringen

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Germany - Unesco Water Management System of Augsburg

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Germany - Unesco Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen

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Germany - Unesco Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke

                               

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Germany - Unesco Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region

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Germany - Unesco Unesco Sanssouci Castle - Meetup

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Germany - Unesco Wadden Sea

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Germany - Unesco Maulbronn Monastery Complex

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Maulbronn Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey and UNESCO World Heritage Site located at Maulbronn, Baden-Württemberg. The monastery complex is one of the best-preserved in Europe. The monastery's narthex, called "the Paradise", is the oldest example of Gothic architecture in Germany.

It is part of the Northern Black Forest Monastery Route with Alpirsbach, Hirsau, and Reuthin monasteries.

The complex, surrounded by turreted walls and a tower gate, today houses the Maulbronn town hall and other administrative offices, a police station, and several restaurants. The monastery itself contains an Evangelical seminary in the Württemberger tradition and a boarding school.

Germany - Unesco Naumburg Cathedral

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Germany - Unesco Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch

The abbey was founded in 764 by the Frankish Count Cancor and his widowed mother Williswinda as a proprietary church (Eigenkirche) and monastery on their estate, Laurissa. It was dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The founders entrusted its government to Cancor's nephew Chrodegang, Archbishop of Metz, who became its first abbot. The pious founders enriched the new abbey by further donations. To make the abbey popular as a shrine and a place of pilgrimage, Chrodegang obtained from Pope Paul I the body of Saint Nazarius, martyred at Romewith three companions under Diocletian. 

On 11 July 765, the sacred relics arrived, and with great solemnity were deposited in the basilica of the monastery. In 766 Chrodegang resigned the office of abbot, in favour of his other duties as Archbishop of Metz. He then sent his brother Gundeland to Lorsch as his successor, with fourteen Benedictine monks.

That same year, there was a dispute about property rights between Gundeland and Cancor's son, and the abbey was moved to an Ice Age dune, a few hundred metres from its original location on a small island in the Weschnitz. In 772, Gundeland applied to the highest authority, Charlemagne, who found in his favour. Gundeland gave the abbey with all his properties to the king, turning it into a Royal abbey.^[2]

The abbey and basilica were then renamed in honour of Saint Nazarius: the main church of Saints Peter, Paul, and Nazarius was consecrated by the Archbishop of Mainz in September 774, in the presence of Charlemagne.

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