Medieval buildings in Germany declared World Heritage Site by Unesco

Modern architecture stands above the medieval ritual bath (mikveh) discovered in 2007, in Erfurt. — AP

A United Nations committee recently named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been added to the list in recent years.

Among the buildings included in the new designation are Erfurt’s Old Synagogue, a 13th-century stone building that illustrates Jewish family life in the medieval era, and a traditional ritual bath, or mikveh.