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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Austria.

Understand

Austria ratifies the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on December 18, 1992. The first two protected sites were inscribed in 1996 during the 20th session of the World Heritage Committee.

Austria has 10 World Heritage sites, 9 cultural and 1 natural.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

SiteTypeCriterionDescriptionDrawing
1 Historic center of the city of Salzburg Cultural(ii), (iv), (vi) 1913 - Salzburg - View from Mönchsberg.JPG
2 Vienna historic center Cultural(ii), (iv), (vi) Wien - Stephansdom (1) .JPG
3 Semmering railway line Cultural(ii), (iv) Semmeringbahn um 1900.jpeg
4 Schönbrunn Palace and Gardens Cultural(i), (iv) Schloss Schoenbrunn August 2006 406.jpg
Fertö Cultural Landscape / 5 Neusiedlersee Cultural(v) Neusiedler See at Rust.jpg
Cultural landscape of 6 Hallstatt -7 Hoher Dachstein / 8 Salzkammergut Cultural(iii), (iv) Hallstatt - Gesamtansicht.jpg
9 Wachau Cultural Landscape Cultural(ii), (iv) Stift Goettweig Nordwestansicht.jpg
Prehistoric pile-dwelling sites around the Alpsː

10 Abtsdorf I ,11 Abtsdorf III ,12 Keutschacher See ,13 Litzlberg Süd ,14 Mondsee – See

Cultural(iv), (v) Keutschacher See Alders 07022008 01.jpg
15 City of Graz - Historic center and Eggenberg castleCultural(ii), (iv) GrazerRathaus-edit.jpg
Primary beech forests of the Carpathians and other parts of EuropeNatural(ix)The site is a transnational extension of the Primary Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine and Germany) which now spans twelve countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, the beech forests of Europe have rapidly spread from a few isolated refuges in the Alps, Carpathians, Mediterranean and Pyrenees in a few thousand years, a process which still continues. today. The successful expansion of beech is due to its flexibility and tolerance to different climatic, geographic and physical conditions. 
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(i)Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.
(ii)To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes.
(iii)To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization.
(iv)To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history.
(v)Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea.
(vi)To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance.
(vii)Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.
(viii)To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth.
(ix)To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems.
(x)Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.
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