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Bamberg’s World Heritage is multi-faceted and complex. In order to raise awareness for World Heritage, the Bamberg World Heritage Office engages in professional exchange, publications and events in collaboration with numerous stakeholders.

News

Press

Events

The Visitor Centre

Located at the heart of the city, Bamberg's new World Heritage Visitor Centre displays Bamberg's outstanding universal value and serves as an interpretation aid for the World Heritage site.

Exhibition

Plan Your Visit

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Projects

In 1993, Bamberg was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list. But what does this title mean for the city and its residents? How is the World Heritage status relevant in everyday life? How does one achieve balance between conservation and community needs? Mastering this challenge is the aim of the Bamberg World Heritage Office.

International Networks

Management

The Bamberg World Heritage Office serves as the central coordination body for all issues concerning the World Heritage site. It oversees the implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Bamberg. It represents the site nationally and internationally.

Bamberg World Heritage Office

Team

FSJ Kultur

Place of Learning

The transmission of the World Heritage to future generations is one of the main tasks of a World Heritage site. For this purpose, the World Heritage Office has developed several educational resources.

World Heritage Day

Tool kit "bamberg.elementar"

Educational resources

FSJ Kultur

Historical monuments

Why World Heritage?

Literature & Downloads (German only)

World Heritage Obliges

World Heritage Bamberg is a
jewel with many facets

World Heritage sites are the most valuable places that humanity has. A constant, valuable reminder of our existence on this earth. They are places that offer outstanding answers to universal questions that concern us, human beings. As World Heritage, Bamberg has significance not only at the local or national levels, but for the entire mankind.

Dr. Simona von Eyb
Head, Bamberg World Heritage Office

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Impressive

Bamberg was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site in 1993. World Heritage is a vibrant strand of the life of Bamberg, benefiting the town and its residents.

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Bamberg World Heritage
Office

Bamberg is a complex site, encompassing an entire living city of 76,000 people where modern life co-exists alongside historic cultural assets of global significance. Achieving balance between conservation and community needs is the constant challenge which the Bamberg World Heritage Office addresses. It coordinates the local implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and serves as a contact for all World Heritage issues.

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Current Projects

Visitor Centre

The new World Heritage Visitor Centre conveys the characteristics and quality of the World Heritage “Town of Bamberg”, and embeds the site in the international context of UNESCO.

Visitor Centre

Management Plan

UNESCO, the body overseeing World Heritage, requires all sites to have a management plan. This management plan should combine general strategies for the protection, use, maintenance, and sustainable development of the site as well as policies with specific goals that relate to the significance and setting of the site.

Management Plan

Urban Gardening

The Urban Gardening project is based on Bamberg’s gardening tradition and combines aspects of urban planning, monument protection, tourism, and commercial farming.

Urban Gardening

World Heritage Education

Cultural heritage is an excellent educational resource with many cross-curricular opportunities. This site provides information, guidance and resources to better understand our city’s heritage.

World Heritage Education

Smart City

National Networks

The World Heritage Convention is primarily an instrument of international understanding and cooperation. Accordingly, Bamberg is involved in numerous national networks.

National Networks

International Networks

The World Heritage Convention is primarily an instrument of international understanding and cooperation. Accordingly, Bamberg is involved in numerous international networks.

International Networks