Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/197/en

Beyond the orchards, the village bounds opened into the open fields, into the meadows and pastures, in the lowlands, floodplains, or in seams accompanying streams and rivers. These grasslands, as well as the crops of the arable land, are integrated as organs into the village organism, mediated by the Benedictines. Fertilised by the impulse of Christianity, arable farming and animal husbandry, fruit and garden cultivation, meadow and pasture husbandry, hedge and forest management, as well as water management, join together to form

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