# UNESCO lists Aachen Cathedral, the palatine chapel of the received court

Date: 1978

## The fact

In 1978 UNESCO inscribed Aachen Cathedral. The listing is a completed conservation-access act for the chapel associated with the 800 emperor as later public memory. He did not file the nomination.

## Context

Tourism and relic-cult sit on the same stones. Split relic-health.

[Charlemagne](/people/charlemagne) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, Vatican-adjacent, or annalistic edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: UNESCO — Aachen Cathedral (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/3/; UNESCO World Heritage Centre).

## Significance

A 1978 World Heritage polygon is not an 800 corona.

A 1978 World Heritage polygon is not an 800 corona.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Charlemagne: https://factrail.ai/people/charlemagne

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.aachenerdom.de/en/
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/3/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-aachen-unesco-1978