Caspar Dechmann

Member since May 2012

#185 260 46

My most impressive site: Venice

My proposal for a new site: Gdansk, New York Central Park

Recent Visits
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    May 6, 2025
    Kew Gardens, Maritime Greenwich, The Flow Country
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    Feb. 21, 2025
    Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
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    Nov. 10, 2024
    Úbeda and Baeza
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About Caspar Dechmann

First name
Caspar
Member since
May 2012
Country of Origin
None
Visits
Rank
#185
WHS
260
Tentative Sites
46
Website Participation
Reviews
67
Ratings

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World Heritage Sites
Tentative Sites
266 70
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Reviews by Caspar Dechmann

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Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) by Astraftis

Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (On tentative list)

Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)

Victoria has a few things going for it: Firstly the view from the elevated citadel all over Gozo and beyond is spectacular. The is, when you enter the town walls, …

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Birkenhead Park (Nominated)

Birkenhead Park

If you are in the Liverpool area, an excursion to Birkenhead is a must: It grew rapidly in the 19th century as an extension of Liverpool in the industrial revolution …

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City of York (Nominated)

City of York

Most countries can only envy England with their tradition and ability to preserve its rich heritage. There are certainly dozens of well-preserved medieval towns her and only Belgium, the Netherlands …

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz by Christoph

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörl… (Inscribed)

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

This may well be the most underrated site in Germany if you look at the ratings on this website and indeed, it is a site that reveals its extraordinary value …

Maltese Catacomb Complexes by Nan

Maltese Catacomb Complexes (On tentative list)

Maltese Catacomb Complexes

The catacombs on Malta are surprisingly numerous and the highest concentration can be found in Rabat where you find four that are accessible to visitors. I visited two of them: …

Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt by Astraftis

Knights Fortifications around… (On tentative list)

Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt

There is no doubt that his should have been part of the Valletta inscription from the start. While the inscribed town is very nice, it is certainly not as spectacular …

Coastal Cliffs by Nan

Coastal Cliffs (On tentative list)

Coastal Cliffs

Beside the extension of Valletta, that should have been inscribed decades ago, the Coastal Cliffs are certainly the most interesting tentative site of Malta but, as Ralf writes, it needs …

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Abbey of St Gall (Inscribed)

Abbey of St Gall

This is a site with rather strange OUV which you can partially excuse or explain because it was such an early nomination: 

Like the Reichenau this was one of …

Reichenau by Caspar Dechmann

Reichenau (Inscribed)

Reichenau

This site is rather hard to grasp: The undoubtedly enormous religious, political and artistic importance of this monastery is comprehensible only in traces by the three churches left on the …

Luther Memorials by Caspar Dechmann

Luther Memorials (Inscribed)

Luther Memorials

This is a hard one. There is no doubt that the reformation had a huge effect on European and World history, not only changing religious practices but the society, education, …

Medina Azahara by Els Slots

Medina Azahara (Inscribed)

Medina Azahara

Medina Azahara must have been a wonder of the age: a palace city, splendid rooms with precious ornaments with no equal at the time, at least in Europe. So, expectations …

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Carmona’s cultural landscape (On tentative list)

Carmona’s cultural landscape

For many years the Spanish tentative site included the “Casco antiguo de Cadiz” which has now been removed. When I visited western Andalucía in February 2024 I visited Cadiz, supposedly …

Stralsund and Wismar by Els Slots

Stralsund and Wismar (Inscribed)

Stralsund and Wismar

I visited Wismar and Stralsund during a two-week trip around northeastern Germany in October 2023. In both cities I stayed one and a half or two days to see its …

Italica by Caspar Dechmann

Italica (Nominated)

Italica

I spent about four days in Seville. Its WHS may be seen within a day but the city has a lot to offer beyond the splendid Alcazar and the cathedral …

Yuso and Suso Monasteries by Caspar Dechmann

Yuso and Suso Monasteries (Inscribed)

Yuso and Suso Monasteries

I visited this site in 2006 when I didn't think a lot about WHSs yet and hadn't seen many sites. Even then we found it surprising if not ridiculous that …

Cathédrale de Saint-Denis by Caspar Dechmann

Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (On tentative list)

Cathédrale de Saint-Denis

When you take the relatively short way from the centre of Paris to Saint-Denis you are not sure if you really went the right way. You are still very much …

Viking Age Ring Fortresses by Walter

Viking Age Ring Fortresses (Inscribed)

Viking Age Ring Fortresses

There may have been a time when viking sites were underrepresented on the world heritage list but by now I think they are already overrepresented. Firstly the viking period is …

Mediterranean Wind Mills by Caspar Dechmann

Mediterranean Wind Mills (On tentative list)

Mediterranean Wind Mills

I visited the Molino viejo de Zabala, west of Cartagena. It is indicated on this website as one of the locations of this nomination though I didn't find out why …

Primeval Beech Forests by Caspar Dechmann

Primeval Beech Forests (Inscribed)

Primeval Beech Forests

This is a hard site to rate: There is no doubt at all that these areas should be protected. But this site has been so "successful" with its many extensions …

Moravian Church Settlements by Caspar Dechmann

Moravian Church Settlements (Inscribed)

Moravian Church Settlements

I visited this little town in the summer of 2021 when I covered all the inscribed sites on Denmark proper and a few tentative sites. I decided to stay overnight …

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