Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement

Founded in 1773 in South Jutland, the site is an example of a planned settlement of the Moravian Church, a Lutheran free congregation centred in Herrnhut, Saxony. The town was planned to represent the Protestant urban ideal, constructed around a central Church square. The architecture is homogenous and unadorned, with one and two-storey buildings in yellow brick with red tile roofs. The democratic organization of the Moravian Church, with its pioneering egalitarian philosophy, is expressed in its humanistic town planning. The settlement’s plan opens onto agricultural land and includes important buildings for the common welfare such as large communal houses for the congregation’s widows and unmarried men and women. The buildings are still used by an influential community of the Moravian Church.

 Denmark

N55 21 20 E9 28 53

N55 21 20 E9 28 53

Date of Inscription: 2015

Criteria: (iii)(iv)

Property : 21 ha 

Buffer zone: 385 ha

Ref: 1468

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Roskilde Cathedral

Brief Description

Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, this was Scandinavia's first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick and it encouraged the spread of this style throughout northern Europe. It has been the mausoleum of the Danish royal family since the 15th century. Porches and side chapels were added up to the end of the 19th century. Thus it provides a clear overview of the development of European religious architecture.

Denmark

Island of Sjaelland, City of Roskilde, Sealand Region

N55 38 32 E12 4 47

Date of Inscription: 1995

Criteria: (ii)(iv)

Property : 0.40 ha

Buffer zone: 1.50 ha

Ref: 695rev

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Kronborg Castle

Brief Description

Located on a strategically important site commanding the Sund, the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden, the Royal castle of Kronborg at Helsingør (Elsinore) is of immense symbolic value to the Danish people and played a key role in the history of northern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. Work began on the construction of this outstanding Renaissance castle in 1574, and its defences were reinforced according to the canons of the period's military architecture in the late 17th century. It has remained intact to the present day. It is world-renowned as Elsinore, the setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Denmark

Island of Sjaelland, City of Helsingör, Capital Region of Denmark

N56 2 20.004 E12 37 15

Date of Inscription: 2000

Criteria: (iv)

Ref: 696rev
Source: http://whc.unesco.org