Münsterland park landscape
Münsterländer Parklandschaft is the name for the park landscape that is widespread in the Westphalian Bight , a small-scale cultural landscape characterized by agricultural use in the form of pastures, fields and orchards , hedges typical of the region , small wooded areas and lakes. Due to the in Münsterland usual scattered settlement are single-standing distributed in this form in the landscape surface farms, and barns figurines; added some moated castles , Gräftenhöfe, monasteries and small towns. The different room elements are evenly distributed over the surface, the room structures are self-similar, the landscape always shows the same pattern. There are only larger forest areas in the Hohe Mark and Davert . Larger bodies of water are missing as well as pronounced mountain ranges; the Baumberge rise with gentle ridges only around 100 meters above the surrounding plain, their summit heights remain below the 200-meter mark. The proportion of agricultural land is high. In Westmünsterland it is around 70%.
The term park landscape as a trademark of the region is on the one hand identity-creating, on the other hand misleading, because the "park" landscape is not an art product, but an economic area that has emerged over time. The association of an English park is not a recent one. In a monograph from 1923 it says: “But large parts of the Münsterland are still caught up in their old idyll. [The landscape would] if one were to fall under its spell, it would turn out to be a kind of English park ... "
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The Regionale 2016 , a structural funding program of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for Westmünsterland, has committed itself to the "further development of the Münsterland park landscape" against the background of competing economic, ecological and tourist interests.
Web links
- A landscape like a park ; (Images), accessed August 31, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe : Preserving cultural landscape development in Münsterland (PDF brochure; 7.5 MB) p. 15 ff., 28, accessed on August 26, 2013
- ↑ European garden network: Gardens in the Münsterland palace and park landscape ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 31, 2010
- ↑ similar to Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Cultural landscape specialist contribution to the regional plan Münsterland, administrative region Münster , 2012, p. 110 ( online ; PDF; 3.0 MB): "The historically grown, persistent use structure of the rural cultural landscape is expressed in the forest-open land distribution Field trees, rows and groups of trees, head trees, wall hedges, fruit trees and hedges, old oaks on courtyards, paths and in grassland are visible expressions. It is reminiscent of an English landscape garden and is often called the "Münsterland park landscape". "
- ↑ Regionale 2016 - Raumperspektiven ZukunftsLAND. (pdf; 13.7 MB) Basic perspective on understanding space in the future LAND. (No longer available online.) Regionale 2016 Agentur GmbH, February 2010, p. 11ff. , archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; Retrieved September 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Land of the future. (pdf; 7.2 MB) The Regionale in Münsterland. October 2007, p. 7 , accessed on September 4, 2013 (application for the Regionale 2013/2016).
- ^ Fritz Mielert: Westphalia Münsterland - industrial area - Sauerland - Siegerland. Published by Delhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1923
- ↑ Website of the Regionale 2016 ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 11.4 " N , 7 ° 34 ′ 54.3" E