Austria
Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
Immer wieder, ob wir der Liebe Landschaft auch kennen
und den kleinen Kirchhof mit seinen klagenden Namen
und die furchtbar verschweigende Schlucht, in welcher die andern
enden: immer wieder gehn wir zu zweien hinaus
unter die alten Bäume, lagern uns immer wieder
zwischen die Blumen, gegenüber dem Himmel.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
Austrian agricultural landscapes
1. Cultural dimension
Considered in:
- Regional Planning Act
- Nature Protection Law (landscape conservation area)
2. Typical agricultural landscape types
- Forest dominated agricultural landscape
- Loess plains with vineyards
- Grassland (partly high-mountain)
- Alpine pastures
- Open field landscape
3. Cultural elements connected with national agricultural landscape
- Terraces and vineyards
- Orchards
- Defiles/hollow ways
- Hedges, slopes and baulks
- Traditional objects and products e.g. agricultural tools, specific regional gastronomic products, etc.
4. Disciplines and professions dealing with agricultural landscapes as cultural heritage
- Landscape planners
- Agricultural scientist
- Archaeologists and historians
- Geographers
5. National governmental departments dealing with agricultural landscape and cultural heritage
National level:
- Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
- Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
- Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Provincial level:
- Departments of spatial planning of the provincial administrations
