Cultural assets - Hurdle cleared: Will the television tower and Heuneburg Castle become World Heritage Sites?
Two proposals from Baden-Württemberg have cleared a further hurdle on the way to World Heritage status. The Stuttgart television tower and the Celtic Heuneburg in the district of Sigmaringen have been added to the German list of proposals for the Unesco World Heritage Site, announced Nicole Razavi, Minister for Regional Development and Housing, in Stuttgart on Monday. Heuneburg Castle is to become a World Heritage Site together with the early Celtic princely sites of Glauberg in Hesse and Mont Lassois in France. The inclusion on the German list of proposals, the so-called tentative list, is an important first step on the way to becoming a World Heritage Site, said the CDU politician in a statement.
According to the ministry, it will be several years before a decision is made on whether the two proposals from the south-west will actually become World Heritage Sites. Before an official application can be made to Unesco for the sites, they must have been on the German list for at least one year. Germany can only submit one additional World Heritage site to Unesco per year.
There are currently seven World Heritage Sites in Baden-Württemberg. These include the caves of the Swabian Alb, the Maulbronn monastery complex in the Enz district and the spa town of Baden-Baden.
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Source: www.stern.de
