country. Germany and Netherlands
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:
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 Lower German Limes WHS is composed of the boundary that ran for 400 km along the Lower Rhine, along the north-eastern boundary of the Roman frontier province of Germania Inferior, to the North Sea coast (of today’s Netherlands). The waterlogged, wetland conditions under which some of these limes sites were constructed reflect the military engineering mastery of the Romans then.
