DK’s ring castles UNESCO candidates

When the UN organisation UNESCO holds meetings over the next two weeks in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, it will decide what should be included on the World Heritage List. UNESCO has selected a number of sites and structures of particular importance worldwide. The sites and monuments are known as World Heritage sites. This year, the five Danish ring castles from the Viking Era are included in the assessment and can thus be designated a World Heritage Site.
     Those under consideration are Aggersborg by the Limfjord, Fyrkat near Hobro, Nonnebakken in Odense, Trelleborg in Slagelse and Borgring in Køge. Whether Denmark gets the green light or not is expected to be clear either on 17 or 18 September, according to Lars Christian Nørbach, museum director at North Jutland Museums. As chairman of the Danish working group, he has worked to have the ring castles recognized as World Heritage sites for 16 years. “This is application number two, so it is 16 years of work and two applications of 400 pages each, which hopefully culminates with the admission next week, he says.
      There are already seven Danish places on the list. These are Roskilde Cathedral, Kronborg Castle, Stevns Klint, the Wadden Sea, Christiansfeld, the Jelling monuments and the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand.
     Greenland has three sites of its own: Ilulissat Icefjord, Jujataacultural landscape and Aasivissuit – Nipisat.