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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

    International Affairs

    World Heritage requires international understanding and cooperation

    International
    Affairs

    The World Heritage Convention primarily is an instrument of international understanding and cooperation. Against this background, Bamberg is involved in numerous international networks and contributes to the worldwide body of World Heritage expertise.

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    EXPO 2015

    In 2015, at the invitation of the UNESCO Venice office, Bamberg’s Market Gardeners’ District presented itself at an EXPO in Venice. The Market Gardeners’ District in the form of video footage was part of the exhibition on food sustainability. Branches of the exhibition could also be visited in the Botanical Garden of Padua, at the National Park of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, and in the Regional Park of the delta of the river Po.

    Young Heritage Experts

    The Young Heritage Experts Network emerged as a result of an intense and interactive work process during the World Heritage Young Experts Forum in 2015, which took place prior to the 39th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Bonn. As part of the forum, young professionals from 33 countries exchanged views on current issues of conservation and sustainable management of World Heritage sites. Germany was represented by a scientific volunteer from the Bamberg World Heritage Office. The aims of the Young Heritage Experts Network are to act as a think tank, and to offer a hitherto unique international networking platform for young experts and committed people on topics related to World Heritage.

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    ICOMOS

    The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is headquartered in Paris, France, and performs advisory functions under the World Heritage Convention. There are National Committees in more than 120 countries including Germany, and 25 International Scientific Committees. ICOMOS is committed to protecting and preserving monuments and historic World Heritage sites worldwide.

    OWHC

    Founded in 1993, the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) represents a collective intelligence on all issues related to the urban management of World Heritage properties. The OWHC connects with more than 300 cities having on their territory a site inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. All of these cities have a total population of over 164 million people. They are represented in the Organization by their mayor, with the active participation of elected municipal officials and heritage managers.

    More information on the OWHC is available at www.ovpm.org.

    Photo competition

    Together with the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC), the Bamberg World Heritage Office annually supports and lauds a photo competition that invites people to take a closer look at the World Heritage site “Town of Bamberg”, and to observe the familiar surroundings with keen eyes. Children, teenagers as well as individuals or groups can participate.

    Video competition

    The Bamberg World Heritage Office and the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) organize a video competition every two years for young filmmakers aged between 14 and 21 years.

     

    Winner 2019: Lukas Hein
    Winner 2017: Dominik Helmich
    Winner 2015: Johannes and Sebastian Höfener

    Interreg

    „PopUpUrbanSpaces“

     

    On the initiative of the structural and investment policy of the European Union, Interreg projects have been serving the transnational cooperation of European regions and cities for more than 30 years. In terms of content, the focus is on the everyday life of residents: from energy and climate to transport and social issues. The World Heritage Office represents the City of Bamberg in the urbanistic-project "PopUpUrbanSpaces" in order to solve problems resulting from car-oriented mobility and in order to design liveable, green public spaces in the period from 2023 to 2026. In addition to the German Bamberg, partners from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovenia are involved. They will generate an exchange of knowledge and experience. The project is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund.

     

    Project facebook | Project website 

    Project title: Facilitating Shift Towards Active Forms of Mobility by Changing the Attitude and Travel Behaviour of Residents Through the Use of Green, Low-cost Tactical Urbanism and Placemaking Solutions

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    Zentrum Welterbe Bamberg
    Stadt Bamberg
    Untere Mühlbrücke 5
    96047 Bamberg

    +49 (0) 951 87 1811
    info@welterbe.bamberg.de

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