The World Heritage information centers - your ideal introduction to the UNESCO World Heritage in the Harz Mountains
The information centers for the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Rammelsberg Mine, Old Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management" are open for you at the Walkenried, Goslar and Clausthal-Zellerfeld locations. In an exciting exhibition, you can find out more about the World Heritage theme free of charge at stations that are partly interactive.
The low-barrier information centers serve as an overview of the UNESCO World Heritage and form the prelude to the original sites in the World Heritage in the Harz Mountains. At the respective locations, they mainly take on the function of “spotlights” for the places in the immediate vicinity and convey their special features. At the Walkenried location, these more closely examined places are the Cistercian Museum Walkenried Monastery, the Samson Pit in Sankt Andreasberg or the Oderteich of the Upper Harz Water Management in the middle of the Harz National Park. The Goslar location illuminates the Rammelsberg World Heritage Site and the old town of Goslar. In Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the Upper Harz Mining Museum and the Upper Harz Water Management are just some of many themes.
The importance of UNESCO World Heritage sites for the entire world community is also presented - World Heritage belongs to everyone and connects people across borders.
3D model, video projection and media terminal
At the heart of each World Heritage Information Center is a 3D landscape model with video projections that clearly illustrate the process of change that has taken place in the 3000-year-old cultural landscape of the West Harz. The interrelationship between man, nature and technology is put into context in terms of time and content. The film offers guests a unique possibility to gain a bird's eye view of the entire World Heritage in the Harz and its underground dimensions, and also to get to know its impressive history.
At a media terminal visitors can inform themselves in detail about everything that is offered and all events in the World Heritage Site. They can then leave the World Heritage Information Centre with an individually compiled itinerary and information, and then explore the World Heritage directly on location.
Locations
After the World Heritage Info Center in June 2022 in Walkenried, the World Heritage Info Center in the Old Town Hall in Goslar was added in April 2022. Another world heritage information centre opened at the Clausthal-Zellerfeld site on the 18. Sepembre 2022. They are important infrastructure measures for tourism and, in addition to developing and communicating the world heritage sites, contribute to better networking of the existing offers in the world heritage.
CONTACT
Stiftung UNESCO-Welterbe im Harz
Bergtal 19
38640 Goslar
Phone: +49 5321 - 750 114
Fax: +49 5321-750 130
info@welterbeimharz.de