Switzerland
Look, from mountains and valleys
sunrays are escaping
look at mead and meadow,
the shadows are growing
the sun landing on the mountains,
oh, how the glaciers are red.
(Josef Anton Henne)
Lueget, vo Berg und Tal
flieht scho de Sunnestrahl
Lueget, uf Aue und Matte
Wachse die dunkele Schatte
D´Sunn uf de Berge erstoht
O, wi si di Gletscher so rot
(Josef Anton Henne)
Swiss agricultural landscapes
1. Cultural dimension
Considered in national planning and policy
2. Typical agricultural landscape types
- Woodlands
- Alpine meadows
- Drumlin landscapes
- Mire landscapes
- Terraced landscapes
3. Cultural elements connected with national agricultural landscape
- Dry walls
- Single trees on hills
- Fences
- Cow bells
- Haystacks
4. Disciplines and professions dealing with agricultural landscapes as cultural heritage
- Geography
- Tourism studies and regional tourism offices
- Spatial planning
- Anthropologists
- Offices for preservation of historical monuments
- Art
- Historians
- Landscape planners
- Federal and cantonal offices of environment
- Teachers
5. National governmental departments dealing with agricultural landscape and cultural heritage
- Federal Office for the Environment
- Federal Office for Agriculture
- Federal Office for Culture
- Federal Office for Traffic (historical roads)
