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Legal notice Contents Media owner and publisher The Historic Centre of Vienna Vienna City Administration 01 UNESCO World Heritage Municipal Department 19 – Protection and responsibility Architecture and Urban Design World Cultural Heritage at the national and international levels Idea and concept development Rudolf Zunke and Vibrant Hub 02 Statements (Chief Executive Office of the City of Vienna, by political representatives Executive Group for Construction and Technology, Planning Group) 04 Nomination criteria Michael Diem, Peter Scheuchel Criteria for the inscription (Municipal Department 19 – of Vienna on the Architecture and Urban Design) World Heritage List of UNESCO Manfred Wehdorn, Jessica Wehdorn (Wehdorn Architekten Ziviltechniker GmbH) 14 Concrete examples Project management World Heritage and Wehdorn Architekten Ziviltechniker GmbH contemporary architecture Editing and texts 37 Protection of the World Heritage Jessica Wehdorn, Manfred Wehdorn, Strategies, instruments Rudolf Zunke and monitoring Scientific research and map graphics Ludwig Varga, Jessica Wehdorn 49 Actors (Wehdorn Architekten Ziviltechniker GmbH) between World Heritage Rudolf Zunke interests and urban planning tasks 3D visualisations, visibility analyses, photomontages 52 Challenges and vision Peter Ilias, Hubert Lehner, Gerhard Sonnberg er (Municipal Department 41 – Surveyors) Technical co-ordination Willibald Böck (Municipal Department 18 – Urban Development and Planning) Margit Gerstl (Chief Executive Office of the City of Vienna, Executive Group for Construction and Technology, Internal Services Division) English translation, proofreading Sigrid Szabó Visual design Schreiner, Kastler Büro für Kommunikation GmbH Printed by agensketterl, Mauerbach Printed on environmentally friendly paper from the “ÖkoKauf Wien” sample folder © City of Vienna, 2014 The publisher and the editorial team would like to thank the Archive of the City of Vienna and the public institutions for their provision of archival material and moreover extend their gratitude to the owners, developers and planners of the individual projects presented for their support. Title page: St. Stephen’s Cathedral © Christian Chinna; view of Ringstrasse from the roof of the Burgtheater © WienTourismus/Christian Stemper Kaunas Wilna (Vilnius) Liverpool Leeds Königsberg LEGENDE : (Kaliningrad) römische Lagermauer mit Torturm römische Altstraßen früh- bzw. hochmittelalterliches Tor 0 früh- bzw. hochmittelalterliche Altstraßen 10 Danzig 20 30 Manchester babenbergische Stadtmauer (errichtet um 1200) Tor mit Turm / Turm (Gdansk) Stadtmauer (errichtet ab 1530) Sheffield Bastion bzw. Bastei im Jahre 1547 Mauer der Stadterweiterung (1817/24) Legionslager Vindobona (1. - 1.Hälfte 5.Jahrhundert) Kernsiedlungsgebiet bis 12. Jahrhundert Siedlungszonen 9. - 12. Jahrhundert Birmingham Erweiterungsgebiet nach 1200 / ab 1530 Stadterweiterung nach Stadtmauerabbruch (1857/63) Hamburg Bedeutende sakrale und profane Baulichkeiten Stettin Friedhöfe 11.-13.Jh., aufgelassen bis spätestens 1785 Straßen-Niederlande und Bauregulierungen des 19. Jahrhunderts (Szczecin) Großbritannien Weißrußland Bremen Berlin Posen Brest (Poznan) London Amsterdam Warschau Polen (Warszawa) Lodz 20 Lublin Breslau Brüssel Shetomer 50 Leipzig (Wroclaw) (Bruxelles) Dresden 50 Belgien Bonn Deutschland Kattowitz (Katowice) Le Havre Frankfurt Winniza Luxem- Glacis Bamberg Auschwitz- Lemberg (scattered suburban developments (before 1529), burg Oberes Mittelrheintal Messel Prague Birkenau left undeveloped until the demolition of the for tifications in 1857/ 63) Würzburg Kutná Hora Trier (Praha) Lorsch Lytomyšl Zebrzydowska (Lwiw) The historic centre of Vienna: Luxemburg World Heritage sites in Austria from Roman castrum to European metropolis Olomouc Völkling and its neighbouring countries Speyer Nuremberg Czech Republic Zelena Hora Telc Kromeríz Paris Limes (late-medieval Adischarge l s e r B a c h canal) Maulbronn Brünn Czernowitz Ditch in 1547 Holasovice Trebic (Brno) Vlkolinec Regensburg Lednice-Valtice Hronsek Nancy Cesky Krumlov Stuttgart Branch of Danube 1547 Strassburg Goslar (Strasbourg) Slovak Nantes Schottenstift Banska (Benedictine abbey Republic Stiavnica mid-12th cent.) Vienna Schlagbrücke bridge Linz Pressburg (1439) Germany Wachau (Bratislava) Settlement Prehistoric pile dwellings Munich St. Pölten Prehistoric pile dwellings area arround the Alps arround the Alps Schönbrunn 9th-11th cent. Neuf-Brisach (France, Switzerland, (Mondsee/Attersee) Frankreich Germany, Austria, Slovenia) Eisenstadt Reichenau Salzburg Klausenburg Basel Steingaden Neusiedler See Bregenz Semmering Railway Budapest (Cluj-Napoca) Suburb Pannonhalma "An der Liechten- Hallstatt-Dachstein Austria langen Mauer" Bern Salzkammergut (probably stein Common Arc-et-Senans before 1200) Innsbruck Graben on Bäcker- Switzerland straße Graz Ottakringer Bach Area around St. Gallen (11th cent.) (course of brook unclear) St. Stephen’s th (mid-11 cent.) Bern Sardona Prehistoric Pile dwellings Schaufellucke Müstair Hungary Lavaux arroud the Alps (early 14th cent.) Clermont-Ferrand Swiss Alps Rhaetian Railway (Keutschacher See) Jungfrau/Aletsch Klagenfurt Genf D i t c h Bellinzona Kumpflucke (Geneve) The Dolomites Temeschburg Rumänien left undeveloped untilOttakringer the demolition Bach of the fortifications in 1857/63) (mid-13th cent.) Sacri Monti Monte San Giorgio Italy Slovenia (Timisoara) (course of brook unclear) Pécs (scattered suburban developments (before 1529), Weihburg Val Camonica Laibach Agram (12th cent.) Longobards (Ljubljana) (Zagreb) i n 1 5 4 7 i n 1 5 4 7 Lyon Milan in Italy Triest Idrija (Trieste) Bukarest Bordeaux (Milano) Crespi d'Adda Vicenza Aquileia Skocjan Croatia (Bucaresti) G l a c i s Turin Sacri Monti (Torino) Verona Venice Wall of Roman castrum with gate tower Porec D i t c h Padua (Venezia) Frankreich Old Roman roads Architekten © Wehdorn Mantua Early- or high-medieval gate Briançon Early- or high-medieval roads G l a c i s Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, 1996 Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn, 1996 Hallstadt-Dachstein Cultural Landscape, 1997 Semmeringbahn Railway and surrounding countryside, 1998 Babenberg town walls (built circa 1200) Wien River around 1770 Genua Belgrad Gate with tower/Tower Mont-Dauphin (Genova) Bosnien Town walls (erected after 1530) Bastion in 1547 Ottakringer Bach (Beograd) Wall of town enlargement (1817/1824) Bologna und Legionary fortress of Vindobona (1st to mid-5th cent.) Toulouse i n 1 5 4 7 Core settlement area until 12th cent. Herzegowina Settlement areas 9th-12th cent. (scattered suburban developments (before 1529), Nizza Core settlement area after 1200/after 1530 (Nice) Urban expansion after demolition of old city walls (1857/1863) Florenz Important sacred and secular buildings (Firenze) San Sarajevo Cemeteries, 11th-13th cent., abandoned by 1785 Monaco © Wehdorn Architekten Marino 19th-century streamlining of streets and built stock left undevelopedMarseille until the demolition of the fortifications in 1857/63) St. Stephen’s Square – changes over time © Tourismus Salzburg © Tourismus / Julius Silver und Betriebsges.m.b.H. © Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- Welterbe © Dachstein © Erich Kodym Jugoslawien Bulgarien Carl Schütz, 1779 Rudolf von Alt, 1834 War damage, 1945 Construction works for the Underground, 1971-73 2014 Historic Centre of the City of Graz, 1999 Wachau Cultural Landscape, 2000 Historic City of Vienna, 2001 Fertö-tö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape, 2001 Sophia Spanien Rom Skopje Barcelona Korsika (Roma) Tirana © Donau Niederösterreich / Steve Haider / Steve © Donau Niederösterreich © Christian Chinna © Christian Chinna © Nationalpark Neusiedler See/Seewinkel © Wien Museum © Wien Museum TU Wien © Archiv © Wiener Linien © Wehdorn Makedonien © GRAZTOURISMUS, Hans Wiesenhofer © GRAZTOURISMUS, Vatikanstadt (Tirane) Saloniki 0 10 20 (Thessaloniki) Albanien Sardinien UNESCO Protection and responsibility at World Heritage the national and international levels Monument protection and conservation at the international level are a task of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), which was established in 1945. In the context of its 17th General Conference held in Paris in 1972, UNESCO adopted the “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage”: cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value is to be identified and preserved for humankind as a whole. This marked the beginning of the “UNESCO World Heritage List”. The International Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage provides concerted, world­ wide support for the monuments inscribed on the List. The Convention does not substitute measures taken by individual States Parties but is aimed at effectively supporting and comple­ menting these measures. The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage is of special importance also because it constitutes the first international document to state that a natural heritage site can be assigned the same significance as a manmade one. As a consequence, the Convention distinguishes between “cultural heritage” and “natural heritage” and more­ over provides for “mixed properties”, i. e. monuments with a particularly significant combination of cultural and natural fea ­ tures; furthermore, major prehistoric sites are listed under the portmanteau term “natural sites”. Since 1992, UNESCO has more­ over been using the category of “cultural landscapes” as well. 981 World
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