2023-09-28 13:43:00
The German UNESCO Commission in Bonn has put forward new proposals from Germany for inclusion in the international program for the preservation of documentary heritage “Memory of the World”.
As the dpa news agency reported on Wednesday, September 27, Germany proposes, in particular, to assign this status to the first X-ray photographs that Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen took immediately after the discovery of X-rays during his experiments in 1895-1896.
First X-rays
A total of more than two hundred images were taken during this period, which are now kept in the German Roentgen Museum (Deutsches Röntgen-Museum). The exhibition is located in the city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia, the homeland of this scientist and the first ever Nobel Prize laureate in physics. The award was awarded to Roentgen for the discovery of X-rays, which later became known as X-rays.
German Röntgen Museum in Remscheid Photo: Horst Ossinger/dpa/picture alliance
The museum is located in the Remscheid-Lennep district, about an hour’s drive from Cologne or Düsseldorf, in a small half-timbered building not far from the house in which the scientist was born. Another X-ray museum in Germany is located in the Bavarian city of Würzburg – Röntgen-Gedächtnisstätte Würzburg. This exhibition is housed in the laboratories of the former university Institute of Physics.
World Documentary Heritage
The list of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program for the protection of world documentary heritage has already included about five hundred historical archives, documents, manuscripts and other cultural property from different countries, among them almost thirty from Germany.
In May 2023, the world’s oldest globe, the Earth’s Apple from Nuremberg, the Gospel of Hell from Trier, the Manes Codex from Heidelberg and the documents of the Hanseatic League from Lübeck, were added to the UNESCO list.
Current applications from Germany will be reviewed in 2025. In addition to the first X-ray photographs, the German UNESCO Commission also proposed to include in this list a manuscript of the Babylonian Talmud from 1342 from France. A collection of religious works – a set of legal and religious-ethical provisions of Judaism, called the Babylonian Talmud, was created in the 3rd-6th centuries AD. A medieval manuscript copy has been in the Bavarian State Library in Munich for over two hundred years.
The third application from Germany was prepared jointly with Switzerland. It is proposed to include documents from the literary archive of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in the Memory of the World list. They are stored in the cities of Weimar and Basel, as well as in Nietzsche’s summer home near Lake Sils in Switzerland.
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