[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah welcome to a special edition of check in come along on a tour of germany's unesco world heritage sites from the air. we start in often, not just because it's 1st alphabetically. often cathedral became germany's very 1st

unesco world heritage site in 1978. from there, our journey proceeds chronologically in today's episode up to the year 2000. but why exactly does unesco award this title? the overall purpose is to protect cultural and natural sites of outstanding value to human kind. ah, see cathedral in north ryan westphalia has a long history. the oldest parts date back to the 8th century charlemagne, king of the franks and emperor of much of western europe, had the palatine chapel built as the church of his royal residence. enough in his remains are said to rest in this shrine. huffman cathedral took on its current appearance over many centuries,

england was on the list of who the exceptional thing here, of course, is that over 30 kings were crowned and often cathedral. during the middle ages declined fords. and up in the high altar we have the imperial thrown in, cause it was most probably sent out by charlemagne himself and caught in boston, others to toad who about 1000000 visitors from the world over passed through the cathedral every year. ready ready i family to me personally on it, so fantastic to see something that so i can fill out today and as you're designing, i'd say every one who comes to arkwin no matter what their faith should take in the cathedral. ah, our drone flies southeast to the medieval imperial cathedral basilica inspire the

world's largest romanesque church. ah, ah, it took about 30 years to build the cathedral around 1000 years ago. for emperor's 3 empresses and a number of kings lion turned here, a leap to the east takes us to the woods bug residence, a world cultural heritage site in conjunction with the court gardens. it was a center of power for the prince bishops. these were bishops who ruled as princes, and they had the residents built as a symbol of their wealth and influence. it's essentially a palace in all its splendor. the current residents took shape in the 18th century, designed by architect baltazar norman as a fusion of french palace architecture, the unease baroque and italian construction style in

1983 the pilgrimage church of these in the foothills of the alps, was graced with a world heritage title, the sumptuous rococo church stands in an ideal at countryside where a miracle was reported in 1738 peasant woman maria laurie claimed to have seen a wooden statue of christ, crying real tears. ah. in 1984, the augustus burg and falcon lost palaces in pool near cologne were added to the unesco world heritage list. i'll gazesberg palace is a former summer residence of cologne's archbishop elector. clemens al boost. the 2 flamboyant structures were cited as germany's 1st truly significant creations in rococo style. they served as examples for many a german princely court for over half a century. only a short walk from augustus bird palace beyond

a small isolated wood is the falcon lust. sing lodge, the name and location relate directly to its purpose. it stands right under a migratory route taken by herons. and falcons, we're once used to hunt them. our next stop is his heim cathedral, one of germany's oldest episcopal churches. its construction began in the year 872 . it's also famous for its 1000 year rose the rose of hill. this time is believed to be the oldest living rose in the world. also over a 1000 years old is the nearby saint michael's church, a part of the hill, the time world cultural heritage site. and an example of early romanesque architecture. the bulky castle like impression is intentional.

in christian symbolism, the fortress stands for god as a safe refuge. ah, the world heritage site. sincere or even older? still in 1986 unesco listed several of the roman era ruins here. t f was founded as augustin tebow them in the year 17 b. c. e, by the 2nd century c, it had developed into a center of trade. in the latter years of the roman empire, t f was among its biggest cities and t f. put much of its wealth into its buildings . the most famous is the port, the negro. when the romans laid the foundation for the gate in the year 170, they could hardly have imagined it would be for the ages. at the time it was one of

4 city gates and see if now some 1850 years late. the port de niga is the best preserved roman city gate north of the alps, and a well known tourist site for were my vote in the roman era, the gate was nowhere near as black as it is to day, i just bought a negro means black gate but the romans themselves saw the gate very differently, much lighter. we know that the stone was brought a whitish and what's missing out, the city walls left and right of it. before you had to imagine those but was not hard to make out, the right hand tower is missing its top floor. but otherwise, the porter gives a very good impression of how it used to look the structures from the time of konstantin, the great, the basilica of constantine, the amphitheatre, and the t at imperial baths, bear witness to a vast imperial might. and the western roman empires,

aspirations to rule the world at new during late antiquity. just as impressive are 2 more world heritage sites and tear the cathedral. and right next to it, the church of our lady, the cathedral of saint peter is germany's oldest surviving house of worship. all through its 1700 year history, it served as an episcopal church from the oldest roman brick work dating from the 4th century. all the stages of europe's architectural, religious, and art history can be traced through to the present. ah, unesco also includes hands the attic cities on its world heritage itinerary lou beck's old town was added in 1987. in the 14th century, lou back reigned as the queen of the hands, the attic leak,

a commercial and defense confederation that at its peak, brought together some 200 cities. to this day, magnificent buildings testify to this bright chapter in the history of trade. an early version of globalization lu beck's old town is dominated by red brick facades . immediately recognizable is the holston gate. the brick gothic structure is a remnant of the city's fortifications. now it's a symbol of lu beck are drawn flies back inland and over the palaces and parks of potsdam and berlin. through the centuries, leading architects and landscape artists have integrated the palaces and parks to impressive effect. ah, the combination of building and garden design comes together as exempt coons to bear

a synthesis of the arts. ah, ah. the beginnings date back to 1745. when frederick the great had san susi palace built to serve as his summer residence. this maze only pleasants in the rico style was his favorite spot to day even of relatively small it's potsdam, best known palace. the art loving king spent his summer months here, philosophizing with bolt hair and playing music with karl felipe emmanuel boss. this is where he could forget his problems, be sol, so see, or without a care as he called the palace in french. the palace has only 12 rooms in

total, but they are elaborately decorated with plaster reliefs, gold and marble. frederick the great spent his winter's in the potsdam city palace and his summers here he called songs to see his little vineyard house. ah cynthia, any 18th century, this once relatively modest tended really impressed people that this great war hero lived so modestly. and what impressed people above all was that he had no goss. the place was always accessible to the public to a certain extent. if you could just look in through the windows and always enter the garden muscle in comparison to other courts that was very unusual for the 18th century age. oh, only a short stroll from san so see looms the mighty grandeur of the noise poly

this massive palace with its magnificent banquet halls, galleries, and royal apartments served primarily to receive guests. the noise palais is the last palace, frederick the great had built in his park ah ah, but sounds so c park was not yet complete. the orangery palace was commissioned by frederic william the 4 in the mid 19th century. he's been called the romantic on the throne of which the palace is the best evidence. along with the spacious plant

hall, it also has room for sculpture and picture galleries, fountains, arcades and terraces. the entire complex has a mediterranean flare reflecting the king's love for italy. the palace measures over 300 meters long. even so these 3 mansions are only a small part of the palaces and parks of potsdam and berlin world heritage site. there's much more to see here. ah. between forms and dom shot stands, lord abbey, a prominent center of power and the middle ages. today, only 3 structures from the original benedictine abbey survive. a section of the monastery wall. the former abbey church and the 9th century oliver azia. the entrance hall. it's original purpose has never been determined. it's one of the

few carolyn jinn era buildings to survive more or less intact. a leap north takes us to the old town of gus law and the hamas bag mine in the middle ages. goslin was a royal seat where holy roman emperors held imperial sentence. about 2 thirds of the old towns, buildings are protected. the decoration indicates the status and wealth of their one time owners. to day a good $1500.00 half timbered houses are crowded together on one square kilometer of the medieval city center. the town owes its rise and prosperity to iron and silver deposits discovered at the vamos, bag mountain, about 2 kilometers from gus le. ah,

the mine was worked until 1988. ah, now we fly south to bomb back in northern bavaria. it's old town with over 2400 protected buildings, was declared a world heritage site in 1993 bombay was built on 7 hills earning at the nickname frank coney in rome. ah, these hills are topped with churches the most prominent of which is the bomb beg cathedral of saint peter and saint gale. ah, it stables the famous bon bag horsemen from the 13th century. the 1st life size equestrian statue to appear in germany after roman times. while the clergy resided the hilltops,

the citizen rebuilt their own hub of worldly power down in the valleys. ah, when him and me at once, they crossed the river re, in the area called the citizens island district in the town who was always meant to link the 2 halves of the city. so they got the idea to actually build it in the middle of the river. somal hulu. giving an added boast to the choice of bombay as a world heritage site was it's urban gardening it's been practiced since the 17th century and is unique in germany in this particular form. now our journey takes us to the cistercian mo, upon monastery, north west of stuttgart, founded in $1147.00. it's thought to be one of the best preserved medieval.

monastic complexes north of the outs. visitors here can get a 1st hand impression of the monks, life and work ah, cleveland bird, in the hot mountain. in 1994, it's collegiate church, castle hill and old town where named world heritage site. the hill offers a panoramic view of cleveland burges, a sea of red houses. it was hardly short of a miracle that the city came through every war, almost on damaged. over $1300.00 of its original half timbered houses are still standing. oh, this is the place to see what

a wide variety of half timbering has been created from small and plain to rich, ornate and colorful. ah, unesco has not excluded modern industrial sites. the folk ling and iron works and salon, for example, was declared a world heritage site in 1994 as an outstanding monument to the industrial revolution. at one time, it was germany's largest iron works. it was closed down in 1986 and converted to serve as a venue for events, large and small. to day. exhibitions, concerts and parties are healthier. a path leads visitors through the complex already partly reclaimed by nature. in 1996,

the methyl pit fossil site was added to the list. a 1st glance reveals nothing spectacular . but this former open pit oil shell. mine holds a buried treasure. tens of thousands of plant insects and vertebrate fossils. around 3000 more are uncovered annually. tours are available of the outside area and a visitor center exhibits. some of the fine ah cologne cathedral is probably germany's most famous church. it's massive, bulk pointed gothic arches and towering steeples dominate the city. skyline. construction began in 1248, but the cathedral wasn't truly completed until 1880 if it were possible to weigh it,

the scale would sit close. 120000 tons. ah. our drone takes us across the country to the bough house sites and weimar debts now and band. now in the years from 1919 to 1933 the bow house, our school revolutionized architectural and artistic thinking and practice world wide. the bow house, as history begins, and vine mom. here in 1919, provides a copious was appointed director of the brand to call saxon school of arts and crafts. he merged it with the academy of fine arts to form the bow house. his idea was to bring art and crafts together. the result was an entirely new design language of color and form straight lines, right angles,

and devoid of decoration. revolutionary for the time. in 1925 bow house moved into a new school building, and des, south hope is out of group. you said that the building itself is everything. the building is architecture. this architecture itself, sculpture and is painting. that means you don't have to hang any more pictures. on the wall below me, only one thing the masters houses were built for the professors near the school there the embodiment of a 20th century artists, colony the buildings, environment, des, south and been out stand for the advent of classical modernism, which started here and spread its influence round the world in 1996, the luther memorials, an isolated and written beg, received the blessings of unesco as

a world heritage site. they memory the life than the work of martin luther and his fellow reformer. felipe belong stone, who are credited with sparking the reformation and changing world history among the memorial sites in iceland are the houses where luther was born and died in written, beg are melon tones house luther's home of many years, and the august him where he taught his students other memorial sites include written bags, castle church, where luther preached for over 30 years. ah, the journey now takes us south to classical weimar, a world cultural heritage site since 1998. in the 18th and 19th centuries,

weimar blossomed into an oasis of germany's intellectual life, drawing such poets and scholars as gutter and schiller. now, many of the buildings and parts here recall vi mas golden age. ah. and in 1999, the world cultural heritage title arrived ferber lens, museum island, the world's largest museum ensemble with 5 world class exhibition buildings. the alton that's anal gallery, the per gammon museum, the board of museum, and the noise and the altus museum. these museums safeguard treasures from 6000 years of human history in particular,

art of the 19th century and archaeological collections. ah no castle has played so pivotal a role in german history as the vice berg near eyes, enough, its cultural and historical significance one at the world cultural heritage title the same year as did the museum island in the 12th century. the vot berg was famed far and wide for the courts. patronage of the fine arts poets and the minstrels contest it resonated with the echoes of voltaire fonda. fogel vied as songs and both, some fun, esh inbox versus saint elizabeth of hungary lived here and the outlawed reformer. martin luther found refuge in the vase burg in what's now called the luther room. he translated the new testament into german is the language german speak today took shape in this room by martin luther as had when good has stood here 300 years later. he said, oh me through luther,

did we become one people, one nation? did we find a common language that combines under spot a united germany was also the goal of the students who celebrated the famous vaught berg festival. in 1817. they called for a nation state with a constitution of its own. our final stop today is the decimal verle. it's garden realm in the 18th century leopold the 3rd duke of on how this, how created a unique variety of parks, gardens and castles, and his principality integrating them into a cultural landscape laced with streams and woods. our tour of germany's world cultural heritage sites by drone ends here. for now,

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