year of inscription: 1987; extension & re-naming: 2005; extension: 2008
criteria: Cultural
At its zenith, the boundary of the Roman Empire stretched over 5,000km, from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe from the North Sea to the Black Sea, and then to the Red Sea and across North Africa to the Atlantic coast. The modern term for this border defence and delimiting system is limes, and existed in the form of walls, ditches, forts, fortresses, watchtowers, and civilian settlements. Today, elements of the limes have been destroyed, excavated, or reconstructed.
The conservation of the limes as WHS has been categorised into the following three distinct WHS:
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes
The Frontiers of the Roman Empire WHS is composed of the following components:
- Hadrian’s Wall: remnants of a 118km-long wall in England, United Kingdom, built in 122 CE, marking the northern boundary of the Roman province of Britannia, declared a WHS in 1987
- Upper German-Raetian Limes: a 550km-long stretch of fortifications between the Rhine and Danube in Germany, built in stages in the course of the 2nd century CE, marking a cultural divide between the Romanised world and non-Romanised Germanic peoples; added to the WHS in 2005
- Antonine Wall: remains of a 60km wall in Scotland, United Kingdom, built in 140s CE, between River Forth and River Clyde, in an attempt to extend the reach of the Roman Empire in Britain; added to the WHS in 2008
Altogether, the three components are registered across 439 locations.
This WHS was first inscribed in 1987 as Hadrian’s Wall. With the addition of the Upper German-Raetian Limes in 2005, it was re-named to its current title, and further extended in 2008.
what. WHS visited (June 2022)
Upper German-Raetian Line at Weissenberg, Germany
[Canon EOS M50, 09 June 2022]
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