Safeguarding and retrofitting works at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Takht-e Soleyman, Iran / Sicherungsarbeiten am UNESCO-Welterbe Takht-e Soleyman, Iran

This article reports on the works safeguard in 2016 to secure the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Takht-e Soleyman in the province of West Azerbaijan in the northwest of Iran. The site includes a fire temple and dates back to the sixth century AD. The complex was transformed by the Ilkhanids in the 13th century with extensive repair and building measures. From the 15th century, the complex was abandoned and decayed. In the 1970s, the north wall of the Western Eivan was first secured with steel scaffolding. The Chair of Structural design at the TU Dresden undertook works in 2016 to stabilise the Western Eivan in collaboration with the Iranian cultural heritage organisation (ICHHTO) and with financial support from the cultural maintenance programme of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. The preliminary investigations until now and the work to the structure planned for 2018 are described below.