Frankfurt

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Frankfurt

4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Frankfurt.

UNESCO sites in Frankfurt

• Frontiers of the Roman EmpireCultural · 1987 · 19 km

  The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to the Black Sea, and …

• Messel Pit Fossil SiteNatural · 1995 · 23 km

  Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and 36 million years ago. In particular, it provides unique information about the early stages of the…

• Mathildenhöhe DarmstadtCultural · 2021 · 27 km

  The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony on Mathildenhöhe, the highest elevation above the city of Darmstadt in west-central Germany, was established in 1897 by Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, as a centre for emerging reform mo…

• ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and MainzCultural · 2021 · 33 km

  Located in the former Imperial cathedral cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz, in the Upper Rhine Valley, the serial site of Speyer, Worms and Mainz comprise the Speyer Jewry-Court, with the structures of the synagogue and …