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UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN If Houses could cry – A call for help 1 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Imprint Publisher City of Quedlinburg Markt 1 06484 Quedlinburg Contacts City of Quedlinburg Markt 1 06484 Quedlinburg www.quedlinburg.de Building Department Department head: Herr Malnati thomas.malnati@quedlinburg.de Phone: +49-(0)3946 / 905 700 City development and renovation section, UNESCO-World Heritage Section leader: Frau Rippich julia.rippich@quedlinburg.de Phone: +49-(0)3946 / 905 710 BauBeCon Sanierungsträger GmbH Office in Quedlinburg Word 3 06484 Quedlinburg Contact person: Herr Plate www.baubeconstadtsanierung.de kplate@baubeconstadtsanierung.de Phone: +49-(0)3946 / 779 366 Edit Quedlinburg City and BauBeCon Sanierungsträger GmbH Photos Quedlinburg City Edition July 2014 2 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN How everything began: Situation in 1989: 4% of the buildings were decaying 26% heavily damaged 57 % heavily to fairly damaged 13 % new or renovated buildings (taken from a readily available investigation from 1991) • Favourable conditions for the conservation area and monuments in Quedlinburg until 1989 • No significant destruction by fire or war • Poverty during GDR times prevented improper construction; but also meant catastrophic conditions for the buildings • The 1989 revolution was also a fight against demolition of the conservation area • The cost for renovation was huge: estimated cost more than 250 million Euro • A large part of the population was indifferent to the historical architectural heritage; awareness was growing steadily. • The recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage was the goal; but also an instrument for the protection of the conservation of the area and its monuments. 3 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Inscribed into the World Heritage List An abstract from a speech by Doctor Bernd Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff, (then director of UNESCO Centre for the preservation of heritage of humanity, Paris ) given at the ceremonial handover of the certificate for the inclusion of Quedlinburg into the World Heritage List: “While we have huge satisfaction for the recognition of Quedlinburg old city in a world wide scale, we should not forget the seventeen world heritage sites that are on the list of world- heritage-in-danger. They warn us that the inclusion of Quedlinburg in the UNESCO List of irreplaceable heritage of humanity contain the obligations that were inscribed in the 1972 World Heritage Convention. The Convention requires the binding member states for full scale and long term protection of world heritages. In the case of Quedlinburg this is also not an easy task, which entails an enormous request for restoration. 150 old half-timber houses are uninhabited; without immediate help they will be exposed to complete decay...... Now all effort has to be mobilized for the rescue of Quedlinburg old town. I would like to present to you now, honourable mayor Mr. Röhricht , the certificate of world heritage of UNESCO for the outstanding monument of urban development in Quedlinburg with its unique and precious half-timbered constructions, the distinctive castle hill as well as the time-honoured Collegiate Church. From now on, old Quedlinburg should be held not only as an invaluable and irreplaceable jewel of Saxony-Anhalt and Germany but also the heritage of all people and the future generations. To conclude, I therefore would like to remind you once again of the specific duty, that the outstanding heritage of Quedlinburg should be looked after like gold.’’ The world heritage site covers 84.3 ha. 4 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN What we have achieved Situation in 2011 Buildings documented: 3,562 • Buildings contributed in shaping the cityscape 59 % • Buildings are worth preserving 14 % • Buildings have no conservation value 24 % Achieved: • Level of restoration around 65 % • Population growth in the world heritage area from around 2,700 (1993) to around 5,600 (2010) adults However: • 14% of the residential buildings and 23% of the commercial buildings are completely empty • 35% of the buildings show significant need for repair, from which: Buildings that lacked maintenance: 9 % Buildings with light damage: 13 % Buildings with considerable damage: 9 % Buildings saved from emergency: < 1 % Partly dismantled buildings/ buildings in danger of collapse: 3 % (Source: Conservation data base, taken in 2011 and ISEK, taken in 2012) 5 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Rescued: Reichenstraße 38 Construction cost: 264.000,00 € Subsidy: 86.000,00 € Date of completion: June 2009 6 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Rescued: Dovestraße 5 Construction cost: 300.000,00 € Subsidy: 147.000,00 € Date of completion: Sept. 2011 7 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Rescued: Neuendorf 21 Construction cost: 235.000,00 € Subsidy: 93.000,00 € Date of completion: Dec. 2009 8 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Rescued: Schmale Straße 49/50 Construction cost: 386.000,00 € Subsidy: 124.000,00 € Date of completion: Sept. 2006 9 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Situation: ‘‘Temperature curve" of available funding For more than 10 years the financial allowance from the urban development support that Quedlinburg city has received for maintaining her world heritage sites has fallen sharply. Although Quedlinburg receives a large proportion of the funding sum available within the State of Sachsen-Anhalt, this funding is not enough. The very generous allowance from the special Federal programme ‘Investments in national world heritage sites’ provided significant support; but as it ended with the 2014 financial year, the support is unfortunately considerably limited in terms of time. The annual financial requirement of 6 million Euros for maintaining the buildings, which Prof. Kiesow had years ago ascertained, could not be covered anymore by the regular urban development support programme. It is not only the allowance from the Federal and the State government that has reduced; but also the financial resource available in Quedlinburg for acquiring funding support. In the past years the city has received a lot of support from the German Foundation for Monument Protection, which sometimes covered up the communal portion of the financial resource completely. 2.000.000 Financial resource from the city 1.500.000 1.000.000 500.000 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 10 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Situation: selected economic figures of the city Economic tendencies • Low commercial and tax revenue (ca. € 5 million) • Increasing closures of shops in the Neustadt • Low level of readiness for banks to provide funding (Venture capital) • Suffering of companies in the traditional handicraft sector • 59 % of jobs in the service sector (2010) • Unemployment rate of 20.6 % (at the end of 2011) Purchasing power index 2008 (freely available income) Sachsen - Anhalt World Heritage Sites in Germany 1 Wernigerode 85.8 100.00% 1 Regensburg 111.8 100.00% 2 Haldensleben 85.7 99.88% 2 Bamberg 103 92.13% 3 Dessau 83.2 96.97% 3 Goslar 98.3 87.92% 4 Halle 83 96.74% 4 Lübeck 91.4 81.75% 5 Magdeburg 82.1 95.69% 5 Eisenach 88.6 79.25% 6 Oschersleben 78.8 91.84% 6 Dessau 83.2 74.42% 7 Blankenburg 78.6 91.61% 7 Weimar 82.2 73.52% 8 Thale 78.3 91.26% 8 Stralsund 80.9 72.36% 9 Wittenberg 78.2 91.14% 9 Wittenberg 78.2 69.95% 10 Burg 78.2 91.14% 10 Wismar 76.6 68.52% 11 Bernburg 77.9 90.79% 11 Quedlinburg 68.8 61.54% 12 Schönebeck 77.3 90.09% 12 Eisleben 66.9 59.84% 13 Halberstadt 77.2 89.98% 14 Stendal 76.1 88.69% 15 Aschersleben 73.8 86.01% 16 Köthen 73.3 85.43% 17 Quedlinburg 68.8 80.19% 18 Eisleben 66.9 77.97% 19 Sangerhausen 66.2 77.16% Occupations subjected to social security contribution in Quedlinburg 1989 1996 2010 18, 881 12, 048 8, 048 Commuters movement (2010) Living and working in QLB Communters into QLB Out -bound commuters 2, 964 5, 084 3, 417 11 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Mid-term demands for public funding for the preservation of the world heritage areas Average Number of Total Measures minimal cost for objects each object € million 1. Securing significantly damaged buildings that shape 411 61,192 € 25.15 the city-scape From 1.1 Objects with significant damage 319 50,000 € 15.95 which: 1.2 Objects that are partly destroyed 90 100,000 € 9 1.3 Objects saved from emergency in the past 2 100,000 € 0.2 80 2. Modernisation measures (partly and complete prospective 125,000 € 10 Modernisation) builders 3. Defensive structure (City wall, Towers) +Supporting 750 m 5 wall on Münzenberg 4. Most urgent infrastructure measures (Residents parking, streets and walkways) excluding free space 5 and recreational area 5. Stiftsberg complex (super structure + supporting 8 wall) and Wipertii church Total: 53.15 (Source: BauBeCon Sanierungsträger GmbH) 12 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Situation: Overview of the condition of endangered buildings Typical extract (Source: Conservation Database, taken in 2011) 13 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN Situation: Demand for urgent action Under the framework of the monument protection plan, which is a building block of the world heritage management plan, all buildings covering the world heritage district are documented. The following shows clearly something dramatic: Out of 3562 buildings 411 are prospectively in a dangerous condition. If there is a lack of renovation for these buildings, the damage especially infection by dry rot, will spread to the neighbouring buildings that have already been renovated.