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The Messel Pit ( ) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about 35 km (21.7 mi) southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bituminous shale was mined there. Because of its abundance of fossils, it has significant geological and scientific importance. After almost becoming a landfill, strong local resistance eventually stopped these plans, and the Messel Pit was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site on 9 December 1995. Significant scientific discoveries are still being made, and the site has increasingly become a tourism site as well.

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World Heritage Sites in Germany

Northern		Berlin Modernism Housing Estates * Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin * Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin * Bremen: Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace * Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar * Hildesheim: St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church * Hanseatic City of Lübeck * Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar * The Wadden Seaup\|1
Central		Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau * Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz * ~~Dresden Elbe Valley~~ (delisted in 2009) * Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg * Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowskiup\|2 * Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg * Wartburg Castle * Classical Weimar
Western		Aachen Cathedral * Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl * Cologne Cathedral * Messel Pit Fossil Site * Upper Middle Rhine Valley * Speyer Cathedral * Trier: Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady * Völklingen Ironworks * Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
Southern		Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch * Town of Bamberg * Frontiers of the Roman Empire:up\|3 Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes * Maulbronn Monastery Complex * Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof * Monastic Island of Reichenau * Pilgrimage Church of Wies * Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square

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