Eleven cultural properties and one natural property make up Austria's World Heritage List
Background
Four Austrian properties carry state of conservation reports dated 2026, which is what brings the country's World Heritage record into view this week: the Historic Centre of Vienna, the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, the Fertoe / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape and the Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes (Western Segment).
Austria has 12 properties inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, 11 of them cultural and one natural.
Austria ratified the World Heritage Convention on 18 December 1992.
The cultural properties include the Historic Centre of Vienna (2001), the Palace and Gardens of Schoenbrunn (1996), the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg (1996), the Semmering Railway (1998) and the Wachau Cultural Landscape (2000).
The single natural property is the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a site shared across several countries.
Austria also keeps two sites on its Tentative List, the inventory of properties a State Party intends to consider for nomination.
In plain words
State Party State Party to the World Heritage Convention — A country that has ratified the World Heritage Convention and can therefore nominate sites.
Tentative List Tentative List — A country's own inventory of sites it intends to consider nominating later.
Limes Limes — The Latin word for the fortified frontier of the Roman Empire.