Hi all,
I don't know if it can be of any help but in France, every monument has an id (or some times more than one if different parts of a monument are classified), but every monument can be identified by at least one id.

These ids aren't integer, they look like PA00083476.

Sylvain

2011/3/13 Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk@googlemail.com>
Oh, that is a problem in Germany too. The greatest we can dream of are
unique ids in a state. But within a state, they often have ids only
within a municipality.
Ziko