Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/208/en

In the Gothic of the High Middle Ages, the last remnants of rampant wild nature were also banished and, through I-willed work, ennobled into a 'garden of God'. In view of the abundance of sculptures in the portals and niches, the beings emerging vividly from the capitals, the plant-like ornamentation that often adorns the outer skin of the buildings, one can gain the impression that the surplus living formative forces, released and purified from the surrounding nature, had flowed into the building, into the sculpting and painting hands of the artists. Like these buildings themselves, the cultural landscape is now also completed with them. Just as in the Gothic the high-striving pointed vaults have a keystone (in the Romanesque, the round arch as a whole bears the load), so the Gothic as a whole forms the keystone in the development of the organism principle as the fundamental formative element of the Western cultural landscapes and, at the same time, the keystone of the age of the intellectual and mind soul.