Nomination for Inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List Management Plan Management The Naumburg CaThedral aNd The laNdsCape of The rivers saale aNd uNsTruT — TerriTories of power iN The high middle ages The Naumburg Cathedral and the landscape of the rivers Saale and Unstrut — territories of power in the High Middle Ages power in the High Middle Ages of Saale and Unstrut — territories the rivers and the landscape of Cathedral The Naumburg Management Plan Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut e.V. Schönburger Straße 41 06618 Naumburg Germany http://www.welterbeansaaleundunstrut.de Naumburg, Juni 2013 Nomination for Inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List THE NAUMBURG CATHEDRAL AND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE RIVERS SAALE AND UNSTRUT — TERRITORIES OF POWER IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES Management Plan The Annex E consists of the Management Plan prepared for the first nomination dossier entitled „The Naumburg Cathedral and the Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut – Territories of Power in the High Middle Ages“ that was submitted in January 2014 and discussed by the World Heritage Committee in July 2015. This Management Plan covers the area of the property΄s component parts and the buffer zone of this revised nomination to the largest extend. It is in a review and adaptation process to the revised nomination. For easy reference, however, the current version is submitted here as Annex E in order to continue to serve as a baseline for information, evaluation and consultation. INDEX INDEX 1. Content and setting the aims 9 2. World Heritage characteristics 13 2.1. Significance of the site 15 2.2 Statement of Outstanding Universal Value 19 2.2.1 Description 19 2.2.2 Properties, values 20 2.2.3 Justification of the criteria 21 2.2.3.1 Criterion IV 21 2.2.3.2 Criterion V 21 2.2.4 Statement of integrity 22 2.2.5 Statement of authenticity 23 Index 2.2.5.1 Form and design 23 2.2.5.2 Materials and substance 23 2.2.6 Location and setting 23 2.2.7 Use and function 24 2.2.8 Requirements of protection and management 24 3. Items to be protected, purpose and instruments of protection 27 3.1 Items to be protected 29 3.2 Purpose of protection 33 3.3 Instruments of protection 35 3.3.1 International agreements 35 3.3.2 Federal Laws 37 3.3.3 State Constitution and State Laws 43 3.3.4 Land planning procedures 49 3.3.5 Regional planning procedures 52 3.3.6 Ordinances in accordance with the Nature Protection Law 57 3.3.7 Standing Rulings of the community regional corporations 60 3.3.7.1 Standing Rulings in accordance with the Building Code 60 3.3.7.2 Rulings in accordance with the State Building Ordinance 62 3.3.8 Planning procedures of the State Region 64 3.3.9 Planning procedures of the Municipalities 64 3.3.9.2 Association Municipality of the Unstrut Valley 68 3.3.9.3 Association Municipality of the Wethau Valley 69 5 Construction development plans of the Township of Naumburg and of the Association Municipalities of the Unstrut Valley and Wethau Valley 70 Rulings and planning procedures of the community regional corporations 70 3.3.10 Planning procedures by other planning authorities 74 4. Protected area 77 4.1 Preparation of the definition of the protected area 79 4.2 Determination of the limits of the protected area 83 4.3 Determination of the buffer zones of the property 91 5. Administrative system 93 5.1 Administrative structures 97 5.2 Ownership structures 103 5.3 Guidelines for planning and actions, overall concepts 111 5.3.1 Planning and stipulations 111 5.3.2 Measures 116 5.3.3 Information and agreement 117 5.4 Risks and pre-emptive protection 121 5.4.1 Impact due to developments 121 5.4.2 Impact due to environmental influences 124 5.4.2 Natural disaster and risk prevention 126 5.4.3 Impact due to visitors and tourism 127 5.4.4 Other influencing factors 128 5.5 Monitoring and quality assurance 131 Management Plan 5.6 Conflict management 143 5.7 Communication 147 5.7.1 Public relations 147 5.7.2 Development of sustainable tourism 150 5.7.3 Local commitment 151 Associations in the World Heritage property (extract) 152 6. Sustainable use 155 6.1 Structural monuments in the property 159 6.2 Natural cultural landscape elements 165 6.3 Energy and transport 169 6.4 Summary 171 7. Resources 173 7.1 Personnel 175 7.2 Finance 179 Annex 1 183 Laws (overview) 183 MANAGEMENT PLAN German federal laws 183 Laws of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 184 6 Annex 2 187 Statute of the Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut e.V. 187 Preamble 187 Index 7 Management Plan 8 1.1.A CO NT KAPIENTT EL-AN D SETTIEINNGS TTHEIEG AIMS DRITTE EBENE 1. Content and setting the aims 9 Management Plan Zscheiplitz, abbey church,epitaph(photo: GuidoSiebert) 10 The World Heritage Management Plan is the concomitant documentation and planning instrument for the application for the acceptance of the cultural land- scape of “Naumburg Cathedral and the landscape of the rivers Saale and Un- strut – territories of power in the High Middle Ages” onto the UNESCO World Heritage list. This cultural landscape with Naumburg’s Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Schloss Neuenburg with the Romanesque double chapel, and the picturesque castles above the Saale Valley and historic wine-growing areas around them, have been attracting growing numbers of tourists for decades, from both within the country and from abroad, as well as specialists in a variety of disciplines. At the same time, ever since the Middle Ages they have been objects of apprecia- tion in art and culture, and, since the advent of the State-inspired protection of th monuments and the modern concept of the Cultural Landscape in the 19 cen- tury, they have also been the object of intensive efforts for their upkeep and pre- servation. The aim of the Management Plan is therefore to bring into combination the existing initiatives and the instruments of protection provided by law, and the- reby to attain positive and sustainable reciprocal effects between the individual topic areas and the persons responsible for them in each case. The object of this World Heritage Management Plan is the nominated pro- perty of the “High Middle Ages Territory of Power on the Saale and Unstrut”, 1. Content and setting the aims and the surrounding buffer zone. It is intended in the first instance for the party submitting the application, the Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut e.V., in which are represented the administrative bodies concerned of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, the Burgen- land region, and the towns and municipalities concerned, as well as the resi- dents and institutions who are committed to their cultural heritage in the cul- tural landscape on the Saale and Unstrut, but it is also intended for the more generally interested public at large. One key aim is that it should describe the examples for the future develop- ment of the items to be protected, present the basic principles in international, national, and regional law, the planning for bringing this about, and the proce- dures and methods for co-ordinated action between the parties who are actively involved. Specifically because it is intended for a middle-term time period of about ten years, the Management Plan is not regarded as a rigid programme of action, and accordingly the methods of ongoing monitoring of the items for protection on the basis of predetermined criteria will acquire particular significance. Only in this way will it be possible to react in a flexible manner with the instruments of protection to meet the challenges which the future will pose. 11 Management Plan 12 2. W1.AORLD KAPI HERITEL-TA GE CHARAEINCSTTERISIEG T ICS DRITTE EBENE 2. World Heritage characteristics 13 Unstrut Freyburg (Unstrut) Saale Saale Naumburg (Saale) Management Plan Bad Kösen Saale Nominated property Buffer zone Map of the Nominated Property 14 2.1. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SITE In the area where the River Unstrut flows into the River Saale in the centre of Germany and the south of the State of Saxony-Anhalt lies a cultural landscape whose outstanding distinction – still present to this day – is an unusually high density of high-quality monuments and authentic cultural landscape elements from the High Middle Ages era. The area extends to include the towns of Naumburg/Saale and Freyburg/Un- strut with their environs and is also defined by the sites of the castles at Goseck and Saaleck across the Saale valley. With their characteristic steep slopes, the river valleys of the Saale and Un- strut are per-meated by a flat landscape of limestone and mottled sandstone, the favourable climate of which, combined with fertile soil and rich biodiversity, formed the natural prerequisites for the emergence of a significant cultural and economic area during the interglacial period from the 11th to the 13th century. As a millennia-old transit landscape between the Thuringian Basin to the west and the Leipzig Bay it was both a contact zone between the Holy Roman Empire and non-Christian Slavic settlement areas in the east and the expres- sion of a pan-European transformation process in this era. This was associa- 2. World Heritage characteristics ted with a unique transformation of settlement and ruling structures, with the founding of new towns and villages, castles and churches and the establish- ment of monasteries and convents.