Berlin (dpa/d.de) – The federal and state ministers of culture have put forward seven proposals for the UNESCO World and Cultural Heritage List. These include two transnational projects: “European Large Arch Bridges of the 19th Century” is supported by North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with France, Italy and Portugal, while “Early Celtic Centres of Power of the Early Iron Age Northwest of the Alps” has been proposed by Baden-Württemberg and Hesse in cooperation with France.
The first of the German sites is the Zehlendorf Forest Estate in Berlin, “because it completes an existing World Heritage Site”. According to UNESCO, the six Berlin Modernist housing estates already registered – Falkenberg Garden City, Schillerpark Housing Estate, Horseshoe Estate, Carl Legien Housing Estate, White City and Siemensstadt – reflect the “progressive nature of Berlin in the political, social, cultural and technical sphere during the Weimar Republic”.
The list also includes the site of the 300,000-year-old Schöningen spears (the oldest wooden spears in the world) in Lower Saxony, the Pretziener Wehr dyke system in Saxony-Anhalt, the television tower in Stuttgart and the Olympic Park in Munich.
The “Green Belt” – the 1,393-kilometre strip of land along the former inner-German border – is proposed as a natural heritage application (with DLF).
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