Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/188/en

who carried the Christ impulse within his purified soul. One sees him, perhaps, pausing at a spring, an ancient-holy, pagan place; he cuts a small clearing into the darkness of the forest and roughly timbers a chapel, whose interior shelters the altar. One sees how people step forth from the forest and receive instruction, which they feel as spiritual nourishment for their I, which awakens in them the I-will to work, which makes them helpers of the one, the monk. They begin to clear the forest further with him, drain the nearby swamp, and, in the now sun-illuminated clearing, cultivate plants from seeds they receive from the monk's hands as a foreign cultural good. One sees how the timbered chapel soon gives way to a Romanesque stone building that, with its defiant, mighty masonry and narrow window openings, shelters itself protectively from the still-untamed forces of nature all around. And finally, one becomes aware that around this established centre, baptised with a name, farmsteads and craft workshops arise. The village is born, with the chapel or church as its centre and the village bounds as its periphery.