In 1996, Austria celebrated its first entries in the list of World Heritage sites: since then, the historic centre of Salzburg and the Palace and Gardens of Sch\u00f6nbrunn have belonged officially to the heritage of humankind.<\/p>\n
Not every locality can be a World Heritage site<\/strong><\/p>\n UNESCO awards the World Heritage seal to sites that represent outstanding universal value. These are exceptional testimonies of past cultures, material traces of encounters and exchanges, artistic masterpieces or unique natural landscapes. UNESCO has defined ten criteria for nominating a site. Four of these describe the qualities of Cultural Heritage sites.<\/p>\n Bird’s-eye view of the DomQuartier<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Salzburg meets two of the criteria:<\/p>\n (ii)<\/b> Salzburg played a central role in the interchange between Italian and German cultures, which enabled the flourishing of both cultures and a long-standing exchange between them.<\/span><\/p>\n (iv) <\/b>Salzburg is an exceptionally important example of a European ecclesiastical city state, distinguished by a considerable number of outstanding and very well preserved secular and ecclesiastical buildings dating from epochs ranging from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century.<\/span><\/p>\n Interior of the Cathedral; W.A. Mozart played the organ on the right in front of the altar.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Today’s DomQuartier was the centre of this secular and ecclesiastical seat of power. It was also the domain of the man who brought an Italian ambience to Salzburg with magnificent buildings such as the Residenz, transforming the design of the town. Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau spent much of his youth in Rome where, under the wing of his uncle, the powerful Cardinal Altemps, he learned to appreciate the sensuous magnificence of Roman baroque. Hardly had he taken office than he began to reshape the centre of his residence town, inviting Italian architects and artists of all kinds to Salzburg. With Andrea Bertoletto, he started on the New Residenz (which now houses Salzburg Museum).<\/span><\/p>\n From then on, a whole series of stonemasons \u2013 the <\/span>magistri comacini<\/span><\/i> \u2013 arrived from Lake Como to work in Salzburg. From 1597, with court architect Elia Castello, Wolf Dietrich set about altering and redesigning the Residenz. To make room for this, he purchased neighbouring houses and had them demolished.<\/span><\/p>\n The work was considerably influenced by the successor to the famous Andrea Palladio, Vicenzo Scamozzi, who also planned for Wolf Dietrich a new cathedral which, however, was never built. After a fire in the Romanesque cathedral in 1598, and failed attempts at reconstruction, Wolf Dietrich ordered the demolition of the ruins and surrounding buildings, including parts of the cathedral monastery on the Kapitelplatz, in order to make room for a new cathedral \u2013 which was then built, not by Scamozzi, but under Wolf Dietrich’s successor Prince-Archbishop Marcus Sitticus, by Santino Solari to his own design and slightly smaller.<\/span><\/p>\n Collaboration with Italian artists continued under Marcus Sitticus and Paris Lodron, during whose period of office the new Cathedral was completed (apart from the two west towers) and consecrated. The reconstructed Residenz was Italianate not only in style, but also in the structure, which brought a southern ambience to Salzburg. Wolf Dietrich’s pleasure garden, called “Dietrichsruh”, started in 1605, was designed as a private courtyard with fountains, statues, grottos, a bird-house and a <\/span>sala terrena<\/span><\/i>, following Italian examples. Modernisation carried out later, under Prince-Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach, was designed by Italian artists, who were highly rated: Antonio Beduzzi and Alberto Camesina worked alongside Johann Michael Rottmayr and Martino Altomonte.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n (vi) <\/b>Salzburg is noteworthy for its association with the arts, in particular with music, in the person of its famous son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.<\/span><\/p>\n Inscription criteria for intangible values include preserved buildings which represent direct testimonies \u2013 such as the Cathedral and the Residenz to the life and works of Mozart, who wrote compositions for these places and himself performed there. <\/span>He appreciated the variety of occasions for which he was commissioned to provide the music. The rooms themselves have been maintained with such authenticity that they still have the acoustics of Mozart’s era. <\/span><\/p>\n Wolf Dietrich’s reorganisation of the court and Cathedral music made Salzburg an important and innovative musical hub in Europe. Indeed, the first opera performance north of the Alps \u2013 Claudio Monteverdi ‘s <\/span>Orfeo <\/span><\/i>\u2013 was given here.<\/span><\/p>\n Select musical performances in this tradition are still held in the DomQuartier: Musikereignisse im DomQuartier.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Concert in the Kaisersaal, Barockfest 2017, Residenz <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n From 2025, a new museum in the south wing of the historic Orangery in the Mirabell Garden will house an exhibition space devoted to Salzburg’s Old Town as a UNESCO World Heritage site. A comprehensive display will be presented as <\/span>Orangery Salzburg \u2013 Panorama Museum \/ World Heritage Centre<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. There are currently 194 member states. UNESCO was founded to promote international co-operation in these areas, thereby contributing to peace and security. UNESCO placed emphasis on the forward-looking inclusion of civil society in intergovernmental co-operation, so that national commissions were established to support their governments through professional expertise. The Austrian UNESCO Commission (\u00d6UK) was founded in 1949 as a national liaison and co-ordination office of the UNESCO constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n ICOMOS is an international non-governmental organisation comprising professionals, experts, representatives from local authorities , companies and heritage organisations, and is dedicated to the conservation and enhancement of the architectural and landscape heritage throughout the world. ICOMOS is an advisory body of the World Heritage Committee for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO. There are national committees in more than 120 countries, including Austria.<\/span><\/p>\n The World Heritage representative of Salzburg<\/b> co-ordinates all agendas relating to World Heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Weiterf\u00fchrende Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n World Heritage explained – animated short about the UNESCO World Heritage Convention<\/a><\/p>\n UNESCO-Welterbe – Historic centre of the city of Salzburg<\/a><\/p>\n Orangerie Salzburg \u2013 Panorama Museum \/ World Heritage Center<\/a><\/p>\n UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization<\/a><\/p>\n Austrian Commission for UNESCO<\/a><\/p>\n ICOMOS Austria – Austrian national komitee<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.domquartier.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/vogelperspektive-domquartier-salzburg.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nThe exceptional universal value of Salzburg<\/h3>\n
The DomQuartier as the heart of Salzburg’s World Heritage site<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\nIntangible values in the DomQuartier<\/b><\/h3>\n
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New World Heritage centre in the Mirabell Garden <\/b><\/h3>\n
UNESCO<\/b><\/h3>\n
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)<\/b><\/h3>\n