Enclosed land in Czech Republic
27.09.2017, by Bénédicte Gaillard
Research: Zdeněk Kučera; upload: Bénédicte Gaillard: The entries are still in process
In broad definition = landscapes partitioned by stonewalls and balks in a more or less regular pattern
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It does occur. Quite common. Hilly and mountainous areas above 500 m, high precipitation. Areas of high aesthetic and ecological value, but peripheral (economically as well as agriculturally).
Enclosures:
simple x complex structure
maintained x different level of destruction
vegetation x stone walls (13 x 4 m largest) x its combination
land use change (pastures and grasslands on former arable land), abandonment, afforestation
transition between open and closed landscape
regional occurence (specific settlement and field patterns)
Population and settlement
rural depopulation; transfer of the Czech Germans; transformation of the settlement network in the borderland; pseudo-urbanization of landscape; suburbanization
Economy
land consolidation; creation of agricultural cooperatives; extensification of agriculture and land abandonment; industrialization of landscape
Politics
land nationalization; militarization of landscape; rise and fall of the „Iron curtain“; „return to Europe“
Culture
renaming of landscape; use of culturally and historically valuable buildings for special purposes; secularization of landscape; transformation of the relationship to landscape; protection of landscape values; development of second home ownership, recreation and tourism
