# Every UNESCO World Heritage Site in Austria

Austria has twelve World Heritage Sites, from Salzburg's old town and Schönbrunn (both 1996) to the Great Spa Towns of Europe and the Danube Limes (2021). Here they all are in order of inscription, with their state and a short description. Five are shared with other countries, and the historic centre of Vienna has been on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2017.

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## Top 12

1. **Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg** (29 · ▲30 ▼1) — Salzburg, inscribed 1996. Baroque prince-archbishops' city at the meeting point of Italian and German culture, with its cathedral, Residenz and Hohensalzburg Fortress.
2. **Semmering Railway** (24 · ▲27 ▼3) — Lower Austria and Styria, inscribed 1998. Europe's first mountain railway, built over 41 km in 1848–1854; its tunnels and viaducts are still in use.
3. **Hallstatt–Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape** (21 · ▲22 ▼1) — Upper Austria and Styria, inscribed 1997. Salt mining since the 2nd millennium BC; gave its name to the Iron Age Hallstatt culture.
4. **Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn** (20 · ▲22 ▼2) — Vienna, inscribed 1996. Summer residence of the Habsburgs, by Fischer von Erlach and Pacassi; home to the world's oldest zoo still in operation.
5. **Fertő / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape** (17 · ▲20 ▼3) — Burgenland, inscribed 2001. A steppe-lake landscape settled for eight millennia; shared with Hungary.
6. **City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg** (13 · ▲17 ▼4) — Styria, inscribed 1999. For centuries the seat of a branch of the Habsburgs; old town listed in 1999, Schloss Eggenberg added in 2010.
7. **Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — Lower and Upper Austria, inscribed 2017. Austria's only natural World Heritage Site: beech forests in the Dürrenstein wilderness area and Kalkalpen National Park.
8. **Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps** (10 · ▲14 ▼4) — Carinthia and Upper Austria, inscribed 2011. Five Austrian sites, for example at Mondsee and Attersee, from about 5000 to 500 BC; shared with five other countries.
9. **Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment)** (10 · ▲14 ▼4) — Lower and Upper Austria, Vienna, inscribed 2021. Roman frontier fortifications along the Danube; the Austrian section is 357.5 km long; shared with Germany and Slovakia.
10. **Wachau Cultural Landscape** (9 · ▲13 ▼4) — Lower Austria, inscribed 2000. A Danube valley about 40 km long between Melk and Krems, with abbeys, castles, vineyard terraces and old towns.
11. **Historic Centre of Vienna** (8 · ▲12 ▼4) — Vienna, inscribed 2001. Habsburg capital and Europe's music capital, from the Baroque to the Ringstrasse; on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2017.
12. **The Great Spa Towns of Europe (Baden bei Wien)** (2 · ▲8 ▼6) — Lower Austria, inscribed 2021. Eleven spa towns in seven countries; Austria's is Baden bei Wien.

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