Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region UNESCO-World Heritage Over 800 years of mining I 22 component parts Germany/Czech Republic What makes the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region exceptional in a global context? The UNESCO World Heritage site Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří mining region • provides exceptional examples of the outstanding role and strong global influence of the Saxon-Bohemian Ore Mountains as a centre for technological and scientific innovation that emanated from the region from the Renaissance through to the modern era and subsequently influenced developments in other mining regions; • bears exceptional witness to the technological, scientific, administ- Welterbe Montanregion Erzgebirge e. V. rative, educational, managerial and social aspects underpinning the c/o Wirtschaftsförderung Erzgebirge GmbH intangible dimension of the living traditions, ideas and beliefs of the Adam-Ries-Straße 16 people associated with the culture of the Ore Mountains; 09456 Annaberg-Buchholz Telephone +49 3733 1450 • represents a unique example of a coherent mining landscape that was Fax +49 3733 145145 transformed by mining activities from the 12th to the 20th centuries
[email protected] and can still be seen today in the mining towns and the associated mining landscapes. www.montanregion–erzgebirge.de 7 July 2019: Living letters “We are World Heritage”, 24 hours after the inscription on the World Heritage List Table of contents Prefaces .............................................................................................................................................................