This is probably the most important WH site in Germany and the most significant religious building north of the Alps, and it is no wonder that it was the first …
Klaus Freisinger
Austria \ Member since December 2005
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I like the concept of World Heritage, and I like to travel, so combining these two is very enjoyable. However, I don't travel outside of Europe that often, so my ultimate goal would be to visit all WH sites in Europe.
My most impressive site: Rome and Grand Canyon
My proposal for a new site: Mount Vesuvius and Phlegreian Fields, Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge, Windsor Castle, Death Valley National Park, Old Town of Hall in Tirol and Schwaz Silver Mines, Historic Centre of Innsbruck and Ambras Castle, Bavarian Royal Castles, Moon Landing Sites: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center and Houston/Johnson Space Center (Mission Control)
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About Klaus Freisinger
- Member since
- December 2005
- Country of Origin
- Austria
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- #180
- WHS
- 268
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World Heritage Sites
- Uluru 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Nubian Monuments 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Cordoba 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Olympia 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Belem 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Castel del Monte 4.0
- Salamanca 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Mount Athos 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Trier 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Santo Domingo 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Everglades 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Carthage 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Luther Memorials 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Medina Azahara 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Monticello 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Plitvice Lakes 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Skocjan Caves 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Assisi 3.5
- Epidaurus 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Tallinn 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Mérida 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Semmering Railway 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Dolomites 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Dubrovnik 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Schönbrunn 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Southern Öland 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Classical Weimar 3.5
- Cahokia Mounds 3.5
- Medina of Tunis 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Elvas 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Canal du Midi 3.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 3.0
- Caceres 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Churches of Peace 3.0
- St. George, Bermuda 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Ibiza 3.0
- Palmeral of Elche 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.0
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 3.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Bourges Cathedral 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- Tarraco 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.0
- Matera 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Nancy 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Danube Limes 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.5
- Medina of Sousse 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Albi 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Ferrara 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.5
- Trebic 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Drottningholm 2.5
- Saint-Emilion 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Cuenca 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Karlskrona 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.0
- Durmitor National Park 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Warsaw 2.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.0
- Centennial Hall 2.0
- Villa d'Este 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.0
- Litomysl Castle 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Bardejov Town 2.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.0
- Banska Stiavnica 2.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.5
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Reviews by Klaus Freisinger


Tugendhat Villa (Inscribed)
Tugendhat Villa
I have to admit that I´m not the biggest fan of modern architecture and I don´t really know much about it. But since I was in Brno anyway, I thought …

Cologne Cathedral (Inscribed)
Cologne Cathedral
This is the most famous church in Germany and one of the most recognizable in the world. It stands out for two things especially - its huge, enormous, monstrous size …

Trier (Inscribed)
Trier
Trier is the oldest city in Germany and there was a time when it was the second most important city in the Roman Empire after Rome itself - and it …

Matera (Inscribed)
Matera
The sassi of Matera are one of the major tourist attractions of southern Italy, and much has been written about the houses and the poor quality of life of the …

Meteora (Inscribed)
Meteora
"Columns of the sky" is an accurate description for Meteora, one of the relatively few sites in the world inscribed on the WH list for both cultural and natural criteria. …

Castel del Monte (Inscribed)
Castel del Monte
Castel del Monte is a true architectural masterpiece and one of the most famous castles in the world (it even features on the Italian 1-cent coin). Constructed by the highly …

Rietveld Schröderhuis (Inscribed)
Rietveld Schröderhuis
Modern architecture is not really my cup of tea, but a trip to Amsterdam in winter doesn´t leave you many options for nearby WH sites, and since Utrecht is just …

Castles of Augustusburg and F… (Inscribed)
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
On a cold and very rainy day I took the subway out of Cologne to the small town of Brühl to tick off another WH site. The bad weather had …

The trulli of Alberobello (Inscribed)
The trulli of Alberobello
Apulia in general is not very touristy, at least compared to other Italian regions such as Tuscany or Campania, but Alberobello is. The place is the highlight of any trip …

Zollverein (Inscribed)
Zollverein
Being no particular fan of industrial history, I just went to Essen to see another WH site, but I was pleasantly surprised. Zollverein is a really big (14 sq.km) industrial …

Grand Canyon (Inscribed)
Grand Canyon
Simply stunning. One should not have to leave this earth without having seen Grand Canyon. It makes you just stare in amazement and wonder. On a more practical note, I …

Upper Middle Rhine Valley (Inscribed)
Upper Middle Rhine Valley
The Rhine Valley is THE classic German, and maybe even European, landscape, and should have been the first German site on the list, as suggested below. Well, in the early …

Edinburgh (Inscribed)
Edinburgh
OK, so I did not try the haggis (there have to be limits), but I still enjoyed Edinburgh a lot (maybe because I skipped the haggis?..). The new town from …

Reims (Inscribed)
Reims
Reims is one of the most important cities in French history, and if you are only slightly interested in this subject (maybe slightly confusing but very interesting), then this city …

Nancy (Inscribed)
Nancy
Nancy doesn't really belong to France's world-class sights and cities, but it has atmosphere, charm, and culture nonetheless. By a curious twist of history, a former king of Poland came …

Strasbourg (Inscribed)
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is mostly famous for politics, being both the seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament, but the city's history and culture are at least as …

Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Inscribed)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
After a long period of aggressive expansion, the time had to come for one Roman emperor to put a stop to it and say out loud that Rome was not …

Durham Castle and Cathedral (Inscribed)
Durham Castle and Cathedral
Like the other posters, I really enjoyed Durham. Even though I had arrived in the early morning on a night bus from London and had to wait several hours for …

Mount Athos (Inscribed)
Mount Athos
It seems that it hasn't become much easier to visit Mount Athos than it was decades ago, and if you happen to be female, it's evidently impossible. But there is …