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Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5

At the 33rd session in Seville in June 2009 the Committee voted 14 in favour, 5 against, with 2 abstentions, to delete the Dresden Elbe Valley, finding that construction of the four-lane Waldschlösschen bridge through the heart of the cultural landscape meant the property had failed to keep the Outstanding Universal Value for which it was inscribed in 2004. The property had been danger listed in 2006, and in 2008 the Committee had explicitly warned that deletion would follow in 2009 if construction were not halted and the damage reversed. It was not.

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Recorded on Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)

  1. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
  2. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
  3. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
  4. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
  5. The cultural and natural criteria are merged into a single set of ten
  6. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  7. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
  8. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
  9. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  10. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
  11. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
  12. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
  13. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list

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