Hubert

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My most impressive site: Old City of Jerusalem, Bauhaus

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About Hubert

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Reviews by Hubert

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Teide National Park by Hubert

Teide National Park (Inscribed)

Teide National Park

In November 2007, we spent one week on Tenerife to escape the cold weather in Austria. We visited the Mount Teide National Park as a day trip from our accommodation …

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) by Hubert

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) (Inscribed)

Museumsinsel (Museum Island)

The best known and most impressive of the five museums is undoubtedly the Pergamon Museum. It is primarily known for the examples of ancient architecture such as the Pergamon Altar, …

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates by Hubert

Berlin Modernism Housing Esta… (Inscribed)

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

I can imagine that for some people it is difficult to understand why these housing estates are a WHS. Certainly many visitors think: What is so special here? That looks …

Vienna by Hubert

Vienna (Inscribed)

Vienna

Why another review about Vienna? Vienna is one of the WHS with the most visitors and most reviews on this website. The answer is: just to draw attention to a …

Quedlinburg by Hubert

Quedlinburg (Inscribed)

Quedlinburg

Quedlinburg is a small medieval town with the largest number of half-timbered houses in Germany. There are more than one thousand from six centuries. The town has a nice market …

Potsdam by Hubert

Potsdam (Inscribed)

Potsdam

The Parks of Potsdam and Berlin extend over a large area and it is hardly possible to visit all sites at one day. There are six major parks: Sanssouci, New …

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz by Hubert

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörl… (Inscribed)

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz covers an area of about 140 square kilometers and consists of several English landscape gardens. The largest and most beautiful park is in Wörlitz. We …

Rammelsberg and Goslar by Hubert

Rammelsberg and Goslar (Inscribed)

Rammelsberg and Goslar

This WHS consists of three parts: the Historic Town of Goslar, the Mines of Rammelsberg and the Upper Harz Water Management. Goslar and Rammelsberg are well described by the previous …

Bauhaus Sites by Hubert

Bauhaus Sites (Inscribed)

Bauhaus Sites

The impact of the Bauhaus on modern architecture and design is undoubtedly immense. Everyone can find traces of these ideas in his everyday live: buildings, furniture and objects of daily …

Luther Memorials by Hubert

Luther Memorials (Inscribed)

Luther Memorials

The sites in Wittenberg and Eisleben were inscribed for their connection to the life and work of Martin Luther and to the ideas of the Reformation rather than for the …

Mantua and Sabbioneta by Hubert

Mantua and Sabbioneta (Inscribed)

Mantua and Sabbioneta

Those who travel to Mantua by car, should definitely take the SS10 from the east. The first view of the city “skyline” is overwhelming. From this perspective, the buildings are …

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas by Hubert

Vicenza and the Palladian Vil… (Inscribed)

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas

In August this year I finally managed it to visit the last of the Palladian villas on my wish list, the Villa Americo-Capra, named La Rotonda. During several trips to …

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings by Hubert

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings (Inscribed)

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings

During a trip to the Dolomites, I took the opportunity to visit Molina di Ledro and Fiave. These sites are two of the rare places where original remains of the …

Dolomites by Hubert

Dolomites (Inscribed)

Dolomites

It's hard to believe that this is the first review of this WHS, because the Dolomites are a popular destination for passionate hikers and climbers. But many of the most …

Aquileia by Hubert

Aquileia (Inscribed)

Aquileia

The main sight in Aquileia is the basilica. The oldest remains dated from the 4th century, but the basilica was destroyed, reconstructed and extended during the ages. The church, which …

Margravial Opera House by Hubert

Margravial Opera House (Inscribed)

Margravial Opera House

The Bayreuth Opera House will be nominated for incription to the WHL in 2012. The Opera House is considered a unique example of a baroque theatre. It was built between …

Schwetzingen, castle and castle gardens by Hubert

Schwetzingen, castle and cast… (Removed from tentat…)

Schwetzingen, castle and castle gardens

The complete title of the UNESCO application is “Schwetzingen, a Prince Elector's Summer Residence – garden design and Freemasonic allusions”. The garden was designed in the second half of the …

Classical Weimar by Hubert

Classical Weimar (Inscribed)

Classical Weimar

It is difficult to say exactly what inspired me so much in Weimar. Surely the charming atmosphere of the city, for example at the beautiful theater square (with the Goethe-Schiller …

Primeval Beech Forests by Hubert

Primeval Beech Forests (Inscribed)

Primeval Beech Forests

In 2009 I visited Hainich national park, one of the five german properties that extend the Carpathian beech forrest WHS in 2011. It is easy to get there, the park …

Fagus Factory by Hubert

Fagus Factory (Inscribed)

Fagus Factory

My visit of the Fagus factory in Alfeld was the last step of a 3-week-tour through Germany in summer 2009. I ticked off 11 WHS (e.g. Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Quedlinburg, …

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