Historical Landscape Elements: Part of our Cultural Heritage

There is a wide spectrum of definitions for the terms ‘landscape’, ‘cultural landscape’ and ‘traditional landscape’. Nevertheless, there is a widely accepted consensus that (historical) cultural landscapes and their typical elements are very important for modern human societies, because they supply many functions and services. Due to their importance and their rapid decline, efforts to register and to protect such traditional landscapes and historical landscape elements are increasing. A new multistage methodology for analyzing and evaluating historical landscape elements and whole remains of traditional landscapes developed in the framework of elaborating the Saxon landscape program is presented as well as documentation sheets for historical landscape elements exemplified on the type ‘semi-natural grassland’.

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