UNESCO World cultural heritage

The Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention, SR 0.451.41) was signed at the UNESCO General Conference in 1972. Its objective is to conserve cultural and natural heritage sites of extraordinary universal value as components of world heritage for all humanity. By signing it, a state agrees to protect and preserve specific objects within its borders. To date, Switzerland has suggested 9 cultural and 3 natural heritage sites that UNESCO has added to its world heritage list.

Simple

Alternate title

UNESCO World cultural heritage

Date (Creation)
2012-01-31
Date (Revision)
2025-02-05
Identifier
ch.bak.schutzgebiete-unesco_weltkulturerbe

Point of contact

Federal Office of Culture - UNESCO - Marcia Haldemann (Section Baukultur)
Hallwylstrasse 15
Bern
3003
CH
https://www.bak.admin.ch/bak/en/home/baukultur/archaeologie-und-denkmalpflege/patrimonie-mondial-de-l-unesco.html

Owner

Federal Office of Culture - Contact
Hallwylstrasse 15
Bern
CH
http://www.bak.admin.ch/

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
25000
Topic category
  • M Society

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland

N
S
E
W








Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Duration of Conservation
0
Comment on Duration of Conservation

Aufbewahrungsfrist 0 bedeutet, der aktuelle Zeitstand ist in der NV bis er abgelöst wird.

Appraisal of Archival Value
A
Reason for Archiving Value
Evidence of business practice
geocat.ch

  • opendata.swiss

  • official geoservice

  • INSPIRE

  • Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

GEMET

  • cultural heritage

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Opendata BY ASK: Open use. Must provide the source. Use for commercial purposes requires permission of the data owner.

Associated resource

Title

Übereinkommen zum Schutz des Kultur- und Naturgutes der Welt (UNESCO-Welterbe Kulturstätten)

Association Type
Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Basic Geodata
true
Basic Geodata ID

179.1

Basic Geodata Legal Level
Federal
Distribution format

  • nan

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://www.bak.admin.ch/en/unesco-world-heritage-ov

Link to description

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bak.schutzgebiete-unesco_weltkulturerbe

WMS-FSDI service, layer "UNESCO World cultural heritage"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bak.schutzgebiete-unesco_weltkulturerbe

WMTS-FSDI service, layer "UNESCO World cultural heritage"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

RESTful API von geo.admin.ch

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/index.html#/collections/ch.bak.schutzgebiete-unesco_weltkulturerbe/items/schutzgebiete-unesco_weltkulturerbe

Link zum Datenbezug

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

http://map.geo.admin.ch/?Y=660923.75&X=187145&zoom=2&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&layers=ch.bak.schutzgebiete-unesco_weltkulturerbe&layers_opacity=0.75&layers_visibility=true&time_current=latest&lang=de

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Geometric object type
Surface
Geometric object type
Curve
Reference system identifier
EPSG:2056

Metadata

Metadata identifier
fb349ad4-5e01-43b7-9fcd-a0f60ae9c4db

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Federal Office of Culture - UNESCO - Marcia Haldemann (Section Baukultur)
Hallwylstrasse 15
Bern
3003
CH
https://www.bak.admin.ch/bak/en/home/baukultur/archaeologie-und-denkmalpflege/patrimonie-mondial-de-l-unesco.html

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fb349ad4-5e01-43b7-9fcd-a0f60ae9c4db

Date info (Creation)
2012-09-25T15:16:41Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-06-10T08:59:07.423487Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

cultural heritage
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Protected sites
geocat.ch

Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure INSPIRE official geoservice opendata.swiss


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