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Het Ravenswaardevolle landschap
Beleving en waardering in een landschapshistorisch onderzoek
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie, Volume 9, Issue 4, Nov 2024, p. 241 - 263
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- 01 Nov 2024
Abstract
The valuable landscape of Ravenswaarden. Experience and valuation in a landscape historical study
The Ravenswaarden (waarden are floodplains but the word waarden also means values) are situated in a relatively young floodplain landscape, formed after the breakthrough of the river IJssel in the early Middle Ages around 550 ad. Due to lateral displacement of the IJssel, the Ravenswaarden are made up of meander-valley ridges and gullies. Therefore, the Ravenswaarden are a relief-rich landscape. The Ravenswaarden were common property of the Marke Gorssel and had an important function in farming life. The narrow-elongated plots were bordered with hawthorn hedges. With the arrival of barbed wire in the 20th century, among other things, many hawthorn hedges disappeared from the Ravenswaarden landscape. Today, the historical developments of the Ravenswaarden are still visible. The Ravenswaarden landscape was examined using a landscape experience survey and a validation survey. From a scientific perspective, the Ravenswaarden score well on recall, preservation and representativeness. From the residents’ perspective, the Ravenswaarden are mainly experienced as a beautiful, vast, open and old agricultural landscape.