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″The Naumburg Cathedral and the High Medieval Cultural Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut" is situated at the heart of the Federal Republic of Germany in the State of Saxony-Anhalt . It has been proposed by Germany for inscription in the List of World Heritage for its Outstanding Universal Value: ″The ′Naumburg Cathedral and the surrounding cultural landscape along the rivers Saale and Unstrut′ are outstanding and representative examples of the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). Nowhere else in the world has such a high density of monuments and cultural landscape elements from the High Middle Ages been preserved in such a small space in such a level of authenticity in its original spatial setting.″

The cultural landscape is representative for processes at the High Middle Ages that shaped the whole continent: Christianization, settlement and cultivation processes, the so-called ″Landesausbau″, that took place between 1000 and 1300. This borderland region also bears witness of a unique intercultural exchange of different cultures in the High Middle Ages. The highest-ranking buildings and works of art, most of all Naumburg Cathedral with its globally unique artistic and iconographic founder figures, provides extraordinary testimony to the claims to power and the self-confidence of the worldly and spiritual rulers as well as to the region’s crucial role as a place of interchange between Western and Eastern realms.