Germany

Germany sustains a deep tradition of artisanal precision, choral and instrument-making heritage, and regional crafts recognised on the national inventory of living traditions.

Music & dance Food & cooking Crafts Textile & dress Nature & herbalism

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Organ building and music

Organ building and music

The craft of building pipe organs and the associated musical practice, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

German bread culture

German bread culture

Hundreds of recognised bread varieties baked from rye, spelt and wheat, listed in the national register of intangible cultural heritage.

Black Forest cuckoo clock making

Black Forest cuckoo clock making

Carved wooden clocks with mechanical cuckoo movements, a craft developed in the farmhouses of the Black Forest.

Blueprint resist dyeing

Blueprint resist dyeing

Indigo resist block-printing on cloth, inscribed by UNESCO as a shared heritage of several Central European countries.

Textile & dress

Falconry

The traditional practice of training birds of prey to hunt, maintained in Germany as part of a multinational UNESCO inscription.

Nature & herbalism