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Following Berger and Luckmann (1966), symbolic "worlds of meaning", of which landscape is one can be viewed as social—and accordingly as historical—products. A consideration of the social meaning of landscape must, therefore, take account of the developing historical understanding of that term. Given the co-evolutionary bond between a social construct and its objective correlate, reference will at the same time be made to the development of the physical spaces we know as "landscape". This dual approach will first consider the German language area before turning to the development of the concept of landscape in other languages and culture (further insights into this topic are provided by Müller in, Landschaft" als interdisziplinäres Forschungsproblem, Münster, Aschendorff, pp. 3–13, 1977; Piepmeier in Zu einem Aspekt neuzeitlichen Naturverhältnisses 30:8–46, 1980; Eisel in Soziale 807 Welt 33:157–168, 1982; Kühne in Eine Einführung aus sozialkon struktivistischer Perspektive, Springer, Wiesbaden, 2013, Kühne in Landscape culture—culturing landscapes. The differentiated construction of landscapes, Wiesbaden, Springer, pp. 43–52, 2015b; and Kirchhoff and Trepel in Vieldeutige Natur. Landschaft, Wildnis, Ökosystem als kulturgeschichtliche Phänomene, Bielefeld, transcript, pp. 13–68, 2009).

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72902-2_3

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