We
are
applying for
the World Heritage
title

We are
applying for
World Heritage
title

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because for us the medieval trading town is not only the genetic code of our city, which is rich in cultural monuments, but also reflects the unique history and location of Görlitz in the middle of Europe.“

Octavian Ursu

Lord Mayor
of the City of Görlitz

We are applying because...

Arne Myckert

Managing Director of
KommWohnen Görlitz GmbH

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because the people of Görlitz have managed to preserve the hall houses in the historic old town over the past decades, sometimes under the most difficult conditions. With the World Heritage title, these efforts would not only be rewarded, but at the same time a unique building scenery would be placed under special protection as documentation of the development of medieval Görlitz with the structural, economic and social aspects of this metamorphosis.”

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because our city of Görlitz, at the former crossroads of the Via Regia and the Amber Road, with its monuments that have been preserved to this day, can tell countless stories about the value of connections all over the world for its economic and cultural wealth.”

Janet Conrad

Managing Director of
the Protestant Cultural Foundation
Görlitz (until 2021)

Janet Conrad

Managing Director of
the Protestant Cultural Foundation
Görlitz (until 2021)

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because the wealth of ideas, the strength and the will for freedom of the citizens of Görlitz can be seen in so many facets in the cityscape as nowhere else.”

Andrea F. Behr

Managing Director of
Europastadt GörlitzZgorzelec GmbH (until 2022)

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because with an awareness of our cultural heritage, we can purposefully shape the future for residents and visitors.”

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because Görlitz embodies living history in the most beautiful way imaginable.”

Rainer Müller

Chairman of the association
Aktionskreis für
Görlitz e.V. (until 2021)

Rainer Müller

Chairman of the association
Aktionskreis für
Görlitz e.V. (until 2021)

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because Görlitz embodies living history in the most beautiful way imaginable.”

Katrin Bartsch

Chairwoman of the Tourism Association
Görlitz e.V.

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because it credibly presents and makes visible our city as a real place of experience for history and culture for international audience.”

Prof. Dr. Willi Xylander

Director of the Senckenberg
Museum of Natural History Görlitz and President
of the Brücke Prize Society Görlitz

Prof. Dr. Willi Xylander

Director of the Senckenberg
Museum of Natural History Görlitz and President
of the Brücke Prize Society Görlitz

Dr. Agnieszka Gąsior

Director of the Silesian Museum
in Görlitz

“We are applying for the World Heritage title because Görlitz is an architectural pearl of the very first order, a unique jewel of civic building tradition and culture, but also a place of lively, cross-border encounters and thus worth seeing, loving and living in.”

Where are we in the application process right now?

We are
here

Application for the German
Tentative List to the German
Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs

Inclusion on the German
Tentative List

Submission of the German
Tentative List to UNESCO

Evaluation of the proposal

Award of the title

After the title has been awarded, World Heritage sites are regularly evaluated by UNESCO.

What does World Heritage mean?

World Heritage is a designation for objects and monuments of culture and nature that have an outstanding universal value for all mankind. They are recorded by UNESCO and receive special protection.