Overview

• More than 350 events are taking place across all 54 of Germany’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, ranging from guided cave tours in the Swabian Alb to rap walking tours in Hamburg’s Speicherstadt.
• The day’s central ceremony was hosted in Hildesheim under the motto ‘Vermitteln, verbinden, begeistern’, spotlighting the city’s Romanesque cathedral and Michaeliskirche.
• Germany’s UNESCO sites span cultural monuments like the Cologne Cathedral and industrial landmarks such as the Zollverein coal mine in Essen alongside natural landscapes including the Wadden Sea.
• Some heritage sites in Germany are transboundary, notably the Ancient Beech Forests and the Wadden Sea shared with Denmark, underscoring a multinational approach to preservation.
• UNESCO is expected to decide in July on whether King Ludwig II’s Bavarian castles—Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee—will join the World Heritage list.