Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/193/en

We see how the farmsteads now group themselves around the church, which forms the centre. The former nomadism does not continue in Christianity. The wandering herdsman becomes settled with his cattle, as was already the case with the semi-nomadic Celts and Germans with their loose hamlets. From now on, the cattle live under one roof with the human being. Within the enclosed unity of the field-bounds, animal husbandry enters into a relationship with arable farming, meadow and pasture husbandry. Under the guidance of one and the same human being, the union, indeed the 'marriage' of arable farming and animal husbandry is accomplished. The opposition of the hostile brothers Cain and Abel is overcome. Furthermore, in post-Christian times, horticulture now integrates itself into the nascent village organism

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