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Frankfurt / Main / Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - The "New Frankfurt" is to be proposed as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
The city of Frankfurt wants to have the settlements that were created a century ago under city planning officer Ernst May recognized, reported the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) on Friday.
The Hessian Ministry of Science supports the application.
Each federal state can make two suggestions for the so-called tentative list.
These had to be submitted by October 31, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Science of the German Press Agency.
The state will support Frankfurt's application, but the city will first have to prepare a corresponding application.
What the second proposal is is still a secret.
It is an application together with another state, said the spokesman.
The New Frankfurt was an urban planning program under the direction of the architect and urban planner Ernst May (1886-1970).
Between 1925 and 1930, numerous settlements were built in Frankfurt that alleviated the housing shortage and set aesthetic standards.
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Unesco world heritage site
Information on the "tentative list"