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ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring German National Committee of ICOMOS Preventive Monitoring of World Cultural Heritage Sites 39. Sitzung des Welterbekomitees 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee Bonn, 28/06 - 08/07 2015 Side Event, 4th of July 2015, 13:15 – 14:45h 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany • Jörg Haspel (Berlin): Introductory Remarks – World Heritage and Monitoring Activities • Martin Reichert (Berlin): Historic Towns – Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town Quedlinburg • Thomas Will (Dresden): Modern Heritage – Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau • Norbert Tempel (Dortmund): Industrial Heritage – Völklingen Ironworks • Ursula Schädler-Saub (Hildesheim): Restoration / Conservation – Margravial Opera House Bayreuth 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring I. ICOMOS Germany History, Activities, Publications 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring ICOMOS Germany • Founded in Mainz in 1965; at present offices in Munich and Berlin • Almost 400 members (most of them individual members, only a few institutional members) • Series of publications: – ICOMOS Journals of the German National Committee – Heritage at Risk – Monumenta • Currently five Working Groups: – Restoration/Mural Painting, – Shared Built Heritage, – Industrial / Technical Heritage, – Ad-hoc Projects, – World Heritage Monitoring 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Publications Journals of the German National Committee 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Publications Heritage at Risk 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Publications Monumenta 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring GERMANY • 16 Federal States (incl. 3 City States) • 16 Laws of Heritage Protection • More than 20 Regional State Authorities of Heritage Preservation and Archaeology • No National Office or Central Heritage Board 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring ICOMOS Germany – organisational characteristics • ICOMOS Germany is organised as a nation-wide union of experts on a (supra-regional) federal level (not on the level of the 16 Federal States of Germany ) • ICOMOS Germany is (funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, but) independent of and cooperates with the regional State Conservation Authorities • ICOMOS Germany is a Non-Profit Organisation and Non-Governmental Organisation (NPO / NGO) 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring II. World Heritage Sites in Germany Facts and Figures 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring GERMANY • 40 World Heritage Sites (WHS): • 1 deleted WHS (Dresden) • 37 Cultural Sites • 3 Natural Sites • 5 transboundary sites and multinational series 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring World Cultural Heritage Sites in Germany • 25 Castles, Palaces and Parks • 20 % Cathedrals and Monasteries (Christian religious heritage) • 15 % Old Towns • 15 % Modern Heritage of 20C (partially or totally), including 10 % Industrial Heritage • 25 % other categories like monuments, ensembles, cultural landscapes 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring III. Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany The Working Group 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Publications of ICOMOS Germany focusing on World Cultural Heritage in Germany 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring ICOMOS - Advisory Body of UNESCO 1. According to the World Heritage Convention of 1972 ICOMOS is an advisory body of the World Heritage Committee and of UNESCO. 2. The responsibility of the advisory bodies ICOMOS, IUCN and ICCROM is defined in articles 8, 13 and 14 of the World Heritage Convention as well as in paragraphs 30 and 31 of the Operational Guidelines. 3. The mandate of ICOMOS is defined in paragraph 35: “The specific role of ICOMOS in relation to the Convention includes: evaluation of properties nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List, monitoring the state of conservation of World Heritage cultural properties, reviewing requests for International Assistance submitted by States Parties, and providing input and support for capacity-building activities.” 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring ICOMOS Global Monitoring Initiatives 1. National committees of ICOMOS – in accordance with article 4 of the ICOMOS Statutes – have a specific responsibility for World Cultural Heritage and other monuments and sites in their country. 2. Under these circumstances and due to different experiences, individual national committees have developed special initiatives to monitor the state of conservation of World Heritage sites in their country. All in all, this programme can be called Proactive Monitoring or Preventive Monitoring. 3. The concept of Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites was confirmed by the ICOMOS General Assembly in Quebec in 2008: ”Noting the valuable initiatives (...) of many National Committees to monitor World Heritage sites and other aspects of conservation (…) the 16th General Assembly acknowledge and stress the importance of preventive actions and monitoring as keys to successful protection and conservation of heritage.” 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring ICOMOS Global Monitoring Initiatives 4. Since 2008, the President of ICOMOS International, Gustavo Araoz, has further developed the Global Heritage Monitoring / Observatory Initiative. 5. Incidentally, the responsibility of Preventive Monitoring does not only concern individual World Heritage Sites, but rather – in correspondence with articles 4 and 5 of the World Heritage Convention – the entire cultural heritage. 6. The Heritage@Risk program – endorsed by ICOMOS at the General Assembly in Mexico in 1999 – is part of the ICOMOS initiative to build a Global Heritage Monitoring / Observatory Network (to identify threatened World Heritage as well as monuments and sites in danger and to share remedies) 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring The Monitoring Group of ICOMOS Germany Initiated in the late 1990s, the monitoring group for World Heritage in Germany is made up of almost 50 experts including ICOMOS colleagues from Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and from France, Poland and the Czech Republic. The members of this monitoring group are admitted by the board of ICOMOS Germany upon recommendation by the group. They form an interdisciplinary team of art historians, archaeologists, architects, preservationists, town planners, structural and civil engineers, restorers etc. who work as tandem or as teams of three in accordance with the “Four-Eyes-Principle” for each site. 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Agreements of Cooperation For the World Heritage monitoring ICOMOS Germany entered into an agreement with the Vereinigung der Landesdenkmalpfleger in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Association of Federal Conservationists) and the German UNESCO Commission. These agreements (in German) can be found on the website of ICOMOS Germany: 1.Agreement between ICOMOS Germany and the Vereinigung der Landesdenkmalpfleger in the FRG, April 10, 2012 (see http://www.icomos.de/pdf/VereinbarungVdL_2012.pdf). 2.Agreement between ICOMOS Germany and the German UNESCO Commission, July 5, 2013 (see http://www.icomos.de/pdf/130705VereinbDUK_ICOMOSunterz.pdf). 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Working Method and Reporting 1. The task of the monitoring group is to get an overview of the state of conservation and possible changes to the World Heritage sites they are in charge of. This should be done based on on-site visits, meetings with people responsible locally and with experts, and by studying current plans. The group follows up information about measures that might harm the outstanding universal value and the integrity and authenticity of the World Heritage sites. According to the principles of the monitoring the most important aim is to “avoid or at least reduce conflicts by giving advice at an early stage”. 2. In particularly problematic cases the president of the national committee can notify the International Secretariat of ICOMOS in Paris of the situation. The Secretariat will investigate the case and, if necessary, inform the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO if a reactive monitoring seems appropriate. 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring Steering Committee of the Monitoring Group The monitoring group is represented and coordinated