The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage elements are the non-physical traditions and practices performed by a people. As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. The "intangible cultural heritage" is defined by the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, drafted in 2003 and took effect in 2006. Inscription of new heritage elements on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists is determined by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, an organisation established by the convention.
Austria ratified the convention on 9 April 2009.
Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Representative List Name Image Year No. Description Schemenlaufen, the carnival of Imst, Austria 2012 00726 The carnival of Imst (Tyrol). Classical horsemanship and the High School of the Spanish Riding School Vienna 2015 01106 Blaudruck/Modrotisk/Kékfestés/Modrotlač, resist block printing and indigo dyeing in Europe + 2018 01365 Avalanche risk management + 2018 01380 Falconry, a living human heritage + 2021 01708 Lipizzan horse breeding traditions + 2022 01687 Timber rafting + 2022 01866 Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. Traditional irrigation: knowledge, technique, and organization + 2023 01979 Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock + 2023 01964 Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. Art of dry stone construction, knowledge and techniques + 2024 02106 Dry stone is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together.
Good Safeguarding Practices Name Year No. Description Regional Centres for Craftsmanship: a strategy for safeguarding the cultural heritage of traditional handicraft 2016 01169 Craft techniques and customary practices of cathedral workshops, or Bauhütten, in Europe, know-how, transmission, development of knowledge and innovation + 2020 01558 A Bauhütten (cathedral workshop), is a structure dedicated to the construction, maintenance and restoration of a monument with a specific mode of operation, known as Bauhüttenwesen.
See also List of World Heritage Sites in Austria
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References
External links UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage: Official site UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria: Official site