Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn

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countries. Austria

year of inscription. 1996

criteria: Cultural

Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment)

countries. Austria, Germany, and Slovakia

year of inscription. 2021

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 sites:

• 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 – The Danube Limes (Western Segment) WHS is composed of the sites along the western segment of the Danube River, which demarcated the parts of the northern reach of the Empire. There are a total of 77 component sites and locations: 24 locations in Germany, 47 locations in Austria, and 6 locations in Slovakia. Hungary, which was one of the constituent countries seeking to list this WHS, withdrew its participation at short notice. Nonetheless, the remaining three state parties proceeded and the WHS was inscribed in 2021.

City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg

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country. Austria

year of inscription. 1999

criteria. Cultural

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps

countries. Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland

year of inscription. 2011

criteria. Cultural

Of the 937 known archaeological pile-dwelling sites in six Alpine and sub-Alpine European countries, 111 of these small individual sites compose this WHS. Pile-dwellings settlements are made up of stilt houses located on the edges of lakes, rivers, or wetlands, dating back to between 5,000BCE and 500BCE. These rich archaeological sites provide an insight into life in agrarian societies during the prehistoric Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

These 111 sites are found in the following places:

• Austria: states of Carinthia and Upper Austria
• France: regions of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comte
• Germany: states of Baden-Wurttemburg and Bavaria
• Italy: regions of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont, Trentino-Alto Adige, and Veneto
• Slovenia: statistical region of Central Slovenia
• Switzerland: cantons of Aargau, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lucerne, Neuchatel, Nidwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Vaud, Zug, and Zurich

Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe

countries. Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Ukraine

year of inscription. 2007 (extensions: 2011, 2017)

criteria. Natural

This is a transnational WHS which spreads across twelve countries. At the end of the last Ice Age, the European Beech was confined to a few areas in the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Mediterranean, and Pyrenees. From thence, its adaptability and tolerance of different physical conditions have allowed it to spread across the whole of Europe. This WHS includes areas in Europe where virgin beech forests remain intact.

The protected areas can be found in the following regions:

• Albania: counties of Elbasan and Kukës
• Austria: states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Upper Austria
• Belgium: province of Brabant
• Bulgaria: provinces of Gabrovo, Lovech, Plovdiv, Sofia, and Stara Zagora
• Croatia: counties of Lika-Senj and Zadar
• Germany: states of Brandeburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Thuringia
• Italy: regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, and Tuscany
• Romania: counties of Brașov, Caraș-Severin, Gorj, Maramureș, Mehedinți, Suceava, and Vâlcea
• Slovakia: region of Prešov
• Slovenia: municipalities of Ilirska Bistrica, Kočevje, and Loška Dolina
• Spain: communities of Castile-La Mancha, Castile and León, Madrid, and Navarre
• Ukraine: oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Lviv, and Zakarpattia

Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg

country. Austria

year of inscription. 1996

criteria. Cultural

This WHS is located in the state of Salzburg. The city of Salzburg developed between the Middle Ages and the 19th century, when it was a city-state. The historic centre of the city is renowned for its Baroque architecture and Flamboyant Gothic art on both ecclesiastical and secular buildings, a result of it being an intersection of German and Italian cultures. The city is also associated with many artists and musicians, with the most famous being, arguably, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.