Shoe­last pro­duc­tion site that has been oper­a­tive since the 1910s. Designed in 1911 by Wal­ter Gropius who would lat­er become a founder of the Bauhaus school and lead­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tive of mod­ern archi­tec­ture. The Fagus Fac­to­ry is one of the first works of mod­ernism in the world and has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Her­itage site since 2011.