"The term “cultural landscape” is the subject of much debate in science and business practice. It becomes obvious in such debate that different notions exist beyond the generally accepted fundamental consensus that “cultural landscape” is a landscape that has been changed by man. By “Culture”, in contrast to “nature”, we generally understand the shaping effect of man and, consequently, “cultural landscape” is referred to in order to distinguish it from the term “natural landscape”. Since man has left his mark on nature almost everywhere in Central Europe, this differentiation has more of a rhetorical meaning (Schenk 2002). Even the frequently used term “landscape” usually refers to “cultural landscape” in the Central European context.
The way in which humans perceive the space around them and how they develop certain concepts of it, “appropriating” it, has a considerable impact on the respective purport of the term “landscape” (Anders 2006). Ecological aspects relating to the natural area and different social meanings are therefore combined in the concept of “cultural landscape”. ..."

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