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Typische niederrheinische Kulturlandschaft bei Meerbusch Lank-Latum
Typical cultivated landscape of the lower Rhine region near Meerbusch Lank-Latum, Germany
Vintage Mamiya 645 2.8 200mm APO lens
cultivated landscape with poppy
poppy
Klatschmohn
[Papaver rhoeas]
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Typical southern Munsterland grove landscape with bushes, hedges and some deciduous trees at the edges of fields or meadows
Autumnal view from the D1B (the Alsace Wine Route) roadside between Ribeauvillé and Riquewihr, with the little village of Zellenberg in the distance, Alsace, France
Some background information:
Zellenberg is a French village in the French department of Haut-Rhin in the Grand Est region. It has a population of roughly 330. The village is situated on a small hill in the Upper Rhine Plain at the edge of the Vosges Mountains, surrounded by vineyards on the Alsace Wine Route between Ribeauvillé and Riquewihr. Zellenberg is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park.
Since 1252, Zellenberg was a fief under the control of the Bishopric of Strasbourg. On the hill of the village, where a hermit had previously lived in a small hermitage, Count Walther of Horburg had a fortified castle built in the 13th century. In front of the castle’s gate, a settlement developed on the plateau, which was later surrounded by a town wall. In 1324, the castle came into the possession of the Bishopric of Strasbourg, and in 1332, it passed to the Counts of Rappoltstein.
In 1525, the residents of Zellenberg lost their town rights because they had sided with the peasants during the Peasants' War. By around 1780, the castle had fallen into ruin. Zellenberg was one of the eight administrative centers under the rule of the Rappoltstein family. The last lord of Rappoltstein, who lost his rule during the French Revolution, was Max Joseph, who would later become the King of Bavaria.
By the third decade of the 19th century, the castle ruins were no longer standing, and the village had only one gate and a single main street. By the 19th century, The wine-producing village of Zellenberg was already known regionally for the white wine produced and marketed there. From 1871 until the end of World War I, Zellenberg belonged to the German Empire as a part of the Alsace-Lorraine region and was assigned to the Rappoltsweiler district in the Upper Alsace region.
In the Alsace region al lot of wine is produced. It is primarily white wine. The Alsace is the only Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée region in France to produce mostly varietal wines, typically from similar grape varieties to those used in German wine. Along with Austria and Germany, it produces some of the most noted dry Rieslings in the world as well as highly aromatic Gewürztraminer wines. Wines are produced under three different AOCs: Alsace AOC for white, rosé and red wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for white wines from certain classified vineyards and Crémant d'Alsace AOC for sparkling wines. The Alsace region is both renowned for its dry and sweet white wines.
Vines are grown in 119 villages on altogether almost 16,000 hectares (39,500 acres) and every year almost 111.3 million litres of wine are produced, corresponding to 148.4 million bottles of 750 ml. 25% of the production is exported. The five largest export markets for still Alsace wine in terms of volume are Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and the United States.
The history of winegrowing in the Alsace region dates back to pre-Roman times, as wine was already produced there by the Celts. Under Roman rule, viticulture flourished for the first time. A second heyday came in the Early Middle Ages under the influence of different monastic orders. An important influence in the history of Alsace wine has been the repeated changes of nationality of the Alsace region, which passed from France to Germany and vice versa several times throughout history. In the 16th century, wine was produced in an area that was twice as large as today’s cultivated area.
The Thirty Years’ War that brought nothing but destruction, hunger and plague, put a temporary end to winegrowing as almost all areas under vines cultivated were destroyed. However after the war, viticulture recovered quickly, interrupted by some setbacks caused by the vine pest and mildew.
The geography of the wine growing area in Alsace is determined by two main factors, the Vosges mountains in the west and the Rhine river in the east. Most vineyards are concentrated in a sunny narrow strip, running in a roughly north-south direction, on the lower eastern slopes of the Vosges. But there are also some vineyards in narrow valleys of the Vosges. Alsace's geology is quite varied, with many different kinds of soils like slate, granite, marl or volcanic soil represented in the vineyards.
The Vosges are a range of low mountains, which form the western boundary of the Upper Rhine Plain, while the German Palatine forest forms its eastern boundary. The Vosges’ highest peak is the Grand Ballon at 1,424 m (4,672 feet), followed by the Storkenkopf and the Hohneck. Two nature parks lie within the Vosges: the Ballons des Vosges Nature Park and the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park. The Northern Vosges Nature Park and the Palatinate Forest Nature Park on the German side of the border form the cross-border UNESCO-designated Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve.
Some trees at the left seem going dead in the near future due to drought.
As an additional impression pls see here a photo of the trees on the left during wintertime:
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"Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s'avisa de dire Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile. Que de crimes, de guerres, de meurtres, que de misères et d'horreurs n'eût point épargnés au genre humain celui qui, arrachant les pieux ou comblant le fossé, eût crié à ses semblables: Gardez-vous d'écouter cet imposteur; vous êtes perdus, si vous oubliez que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n'est à personne."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine de l'inégalité, deuxième partie.
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows : Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, second part.
Fot this week's Flickr Friday theme "cultivated landscape"
The yellow fields are taking over!
Bryanston, Dorset 26.04.2014
The paradise beach at Koh Kood (Thailand)
Nikon D90 with Nikkor 18-105mm/3.5-5.6G: 66mm - ISO200 - 1/640 - f7.1
As I said before, I've been very desappointed with my images to this project. This beautiful ginger lady hugging a tree is pushing me to get out there and make something I'm proud of as in the very beginning, so I'm really thankful once I found myself and my inspiration again. Love you sweetheart <3
All I needed was to Re-energize me.
Also, this is my submission to this week's theme from flickr friday. #CultivatedLandscape
One more thing, this is my first attempt to do a huge freelensing image! I'm quite happy with it! :)
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A very old alley of deciduous trees.
Captured with Nikon D100 and Nikkor AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED in 2011.
Rape seems to have taken over the whole countryside - this is in Hanningfield Essex ODT #FlickrFriday and #CultivatedLandscape
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Un champ de colza au bout de ma rue. Dans mon dos, l'orage....
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Fertile cultivated landscape with farm building in the Val d’Orcia (in English: "Valley of the Orcia") near the town of Pienza, Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
The Val d'Orcia, or Valdorcia, is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata. Its endless gentle, cultivated rolling hills, which are covered with grain or sunflowers in the summer and vineyards, olive groves, cypresses, beech or chestnut trees all year round alternate with medieval habitations, rural villas and castles boasting impervious towers – all of which is diffused in a tranquilly-isolated nature. This is the scenario that is laid out before the eyes of the visitor to Val d’Orcia.
In 2004, the Val d'Orcia was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. According to UNESCO the valley is an exceptional exemplar of the way in which a natural setting was redesigned during the Renaissance (in the 14th and 15th centuries), reflecting the ideals of good governance in the Italian city-state. Additionally, these splendid localities were celebrated by the painters of the Sienese School, which flourished between the 13th and 15th centuries.
The Val d‘Orcia is often described as the perfect combination of nature and culture, but it is also an ecosystem which bears witness of the rural population that has cultivated and farmed the ground since the Middle Ages. However, also five-million years of geological history have left their mark on this territory that, today, is abundant in plant and animal species. Even the deposits of lava from volcanoes no longer active – such as Mounts Radicofani and Amiata – have contributed to the delineations and details of the area; the lava, hardened, gave form to those dark stones known as trachytes.
The valley is not only traversed by the river Orcia, but also by the rivers Asso, Formone, Vellora and Vivo. Furthermore the historic road Via Francigena and the Roman road Via Cassia pass through valley that covers an area of altogether 61,188 hectare (151,200 acres). Occasionally the landscape is broken by gullies and picturesque towns and villages such as Montalcino, San Quirico, Pienza, Castiglione and Radicofani. In the northwest the Val d’Orcia borders the Crete Senesi landscape while in the northeast it is flanked by the Val di Chiania.
Until 1250, the Val d’Orcia was under the rule of the noble family Aldobrandeschi, but subsequently noble families of the nearby town of Siena took control of the valley. They were attracted by the continuous transit of men and commerce along the fundamental pathways Via Francigena and Via Cassia. The most notable of these families was the family Piccolomini, which also provided several popes, among them the famous Pius II. It was him who commissioned to transform the little village of Corsignano into the town of Pienza and hence into a place which he thought is the "ideal town". However, after the mid-1500s, Val d’Orcia became a valuable part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and thereby of the Florentine orbit – solely for its agricultural aspect. Thus, it was the family Medici that improved the valley’s infrastructure in the years that followed.
Within the Val d'Orcia is a strip of land following the Orcia river that is used as a wine-growing area between the DOCG zones of Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Here the Sangiovese and Trebbiano-based wines are produced under the Orcia Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) status. The DOC red wine is composed of at least 60 percent Sangiovese with other local varieties, such as Abrusco, permitted to fill in the remainder of the blend. The dry white wine and Vin Santo style DOC wines are composed of at least 50 percent Trebbiano with other local varieties filling out the rest of the blend. All grapes destined for DOC wine production are limited to a maximum harvest yield of 10 tonnes/hectare with the finished wines required to have a minimum alcohol level of at least 12 percent.
But the region is also very rich in other high quality local products such as the "Pecorino" cheese of Pienza (a typical cheese made with sheep's milk), the genuine olive oil, saffron, mushrooms, (including truffles), sweet chestnuts, honey and a lot of other specialties.
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On the same shoot, you can see this one: www.flickr.com/photos/jean-phi_gaist/14088351305/