I have a strong interest in old architectural styles and would like to explore some more. Unfortunately, the only database I have is the UK National Trust, which includes an archive of all heritage buildings in the UK. Does your country have an equivalent to the National Trust?
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I am the UK so same country, but it sounds like you’d be interested in the National Heritage List for England, ie the list of listed buildings. I assume the other home nations have similar.
I might be wrong but it looks like the national trust database is only relevant to their properties and land, and while they own and maintain a lot of historical buildings, it’s certainly not all of them (or most of them).
The National Trust doesn’t cover Scotland and there is a separate National Trust for Scotland. They are a charity that own and manages around 130 historic properties in Scotland.
There is an agency of the Scottish Government called Historic Environment Scotland and they are the ones who maintain the catalogue of heritage buildings.
Our list includes any protected historical objects – buildings, statues, ruins of castles, graveyards, anything. HERIS is the digital system they use these days.
You can get the lists as pdf or csv here: https://www.bda.gv.at/service/unterschutzstellung/denkmalverzeichnis/denkmalliste-gemaess-3-dmsg.html
Yes, there is a registry of Bienes de Interés Cultural (Goods of Cultural Interest). Here you have the database for buildings
https://www.cultura.gob.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es
Yes. But since we are Germany, of course there is a but.
Every state has its own catalogues. And every state does it’s own thing.
Here is a list of all states and their solutions: https://www.vdl-denkmalpflege.de/ueber-uns/denkmaldatenbanken
Most are probably inconvenient for mobile use.
There’s FAI that does this, but it also includes natural landscapes, so…
https://fondoambiente.it/
In the Netherlands, the equivalent of protective status for a building is called “rijksmonument”, but I am not sure there is a public database available. I can imagine there is not, as a lot of the buildings are used as private residence.
Here’s the list of french “monuments historiques”:
https://data.culture.gouv.fr/explore/dataset/liste-des-immeubles-proteges-au-titre-des-monuments-historiques/map/?disjunctive.departement_en_lettres&location=5,43.16112,1.05469
Sweden:
This website. It’s probably almost impossible to use if you don’t read Swedish.
https://www.raa.se/hitta-information/bebyggelseregistret/
If you are interested send them an email and ask if they have any resources in English.
Mail: bebyggelseregistret
(Domain same as link above)
In Denmark, the government agency for culture and palaces maintains a database over buildings etc that are protected. It is not readily available as raw data to the general public, but is available as a PDF doc.
https://www.kulturarv.dk/fbb/fredningsliste.pdf
There is a list of Nationally significant built cultural environments. It does not list nearly all protected buildings only the most important ones. https://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_default.aspx unfortunately it is only in Finnish and Swedish.
https://www.museovirasto.fi/en/cultural-environment here is something in English.
You could send email to Museovirasto (Finnish heritage agency). [email protected] is probably the main place to send email.
In Hungary we have an official (which given our state of government usually rather shit as most thing they do):
Részeletes kereső – E-Örökség
And an unofficial sort of open source stuff where people update the state of the heritage sites:
Műemlék keresése – Műemlékem.hu
Both of them have a map so you can search it, but I don’t think there is an English option so you have to google translate it.
In Belgium, we have the ‘lijst onroerend erfgoed’, so, ‘list immovable heritage’
https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be
You can also see it on a map, but you have to add a layer to it each time to see it, and only in dutch I think
https://www.vlaanderen.be/datavindplaats/catalogus/beschermde-monumenten
For Poland the biggest one is here:
map https://mapy.zabytek.gov.pl/nid/
description (mostly in Polish) https://zabytek.pl/pl
Yes. https://estia.minenv.gr/
I think some people have also created tried creating some private ones too.
In Russia official list is maintained by the Ministry of Culture: https://culture.gov. ru/documents/perechen-osobo-tsennykh-obektov/ (have to change the links) – but it is just a document of objects with officially recognized national heritage status.
There are different online resources with descriptions, photos, history and sometimes 3-d tours, This one can be useful: https://www.culture. ru/architecture/institutes/location-russia