Nomination - Müngsten Bridge on the way to becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site
The Müngsten Bridge between Solingen and Remscheid will be on the next German list of proposals for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Conference of Culture Ministers has decided to include the "prime example of European engineering" on the next tentative list, the Ministry of Construction announced in Düsseldorf on Monday.
"As the highest steel railroad bridge in Germany, it has connected the cities of Solingen and Remscheid across the Wupper valley since 1897," said Construction Minister Ina Scharrenbach (CDU). The inclusion of the application is a milestone on the way to North Rhine-Westphalia's seventh World Heritage Site. A total of seven sites from several federal states were added to the German Tentative List, including the Oympiapark in Munich.
The application "European large arch bridges of the 19th century" is about the 107-metre-high Müngsten Bridge and five other large arch bridges of the 19th century in Italy, France and Portugal. The mayors of the Bergisch municipalities of Solingen, Remscheid and Wuppertal reacted to the development with friends. Werner Lübberink, Deutsche Bahn's Group Representative in North Rhine-Westphalia, said: "It fills us with great pride as a Group to possibly own a World Heritage Site in the future".
The list is to be submitted to Unesco in 2024. However, it will still be a few years before the site is possibly included. The nomination will have to go through a review process. A decision on inscription on the World Heritage List is currently expected in 2033, the ministry said.
In 2012, a first attempt to nominate the Müngsten Bridge for the World Heritage List failed. At the time, experts advised that the monumental steel structure should be nominated together with other comparable technical structures in Europe.
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