The cultural landscape
A cultural landscape is a landscape that is clearly influenced by humans. Typically, the word cultural landscape is associated with modern agriculture, but the concept is much broader and covers human influence on all aspects of a landscape, including planting, design and construction.
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The cultural landscape is fundamentally unstable and is artificially maintained by humans through, for example, drainage, fertilization, regulation, renovation and expansion.
In Denmark, there are probably no longer any areas that are not influenced by humans to some extent. Many of our large forests, such as Klosterheden , Husby Klit and Stråsø, are often called "plantations" and were originally planted for forestry. The large heathlands that dominated West Jutland before they were tamed in the 19th century, arose due to exhaustion and burning of the land, when the first farmers in the Stone Age began to cultivate the sandy soil.
The engineering landscape
The engineered landscape is part of the cultural landscape, but is different in that here it is modern engineering that allows humans to control the landscape in a way that has never been possible before. Along the west coast, large mounds protrude into the sea and prevent sand drift and coastal erosion. From Høfde Q at Fjaltring in the south to Høfde 96 on Agger Tange in the north, 113 mounds protrude into the North Sea and delay the disappearance of the coast. At Harboøre Tange, like many other places in Denmark, coastal erosion is counteracted by feeding with sand and gravel that is collected on the bottom of the North Sea. Below you can see a video about the engineered landscape in Geopark Vestjylland.