Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)

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1. Story
2. An 18-kilometre stretch of the Elbe river landscape through and around Dresden, inscribed in 2004 as a cultural landscape. Planning for the four-lane Waldschlösschen road bridge across the heart of that landscape brought the property onto the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2006. In 2008 the Committee retained it, warning explicitly that if construction were not stopped and the damage reversed the property would be deleted in 2009. Construction proceeded — backed by a local referendum and by German court rulings that the city was legally bound to build it — and in June 2009, at the 33rd session in Seville, the Committee voted 14 to 5 with 2 abstentions to delete it. Dresden is the second-ever deletion and the only one where a democratic local vote ran directly against the Convention.
3. Knowledge
4. List of World Heritage in Danger
5. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
6. Waldschlösschen Bridge, Dresden
7. Connections
8. Waldschlösschen Bridge, Dresden
9. List of World Heritage in Danger
10. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
11. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
12. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
13. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
14. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
15. Venice and its Lagoon
16. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
17. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
18. Timbuktu
19. Site of Palmyra
20. Galápagos Islands
21. Angkor
22. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
23. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
24. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
25. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
26. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
27. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
28. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
29. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
30. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
31. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
32. Evidence
33. At the 33rd session in Seville in June 2009 the Committee voted 14 to 5 with 2 abstentions to delete the Dresden Elbe Valley, on the ground that the four-lane Waldschlösschen bridge meant the property failed to keep its 'outstanding universal value as inscribed'. The property was inscribed in 2004, danger listed in 2006, and warned in 2008 that deletion would follow in 2009 absent a halt to construction. ALSO: Analyses the Dresden delisting as a conflict between local democratic and judicial process and international heritage obligation, and treats the case as a test of whose interests 'world heritage' represents.