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Landschaftspark

English translation: landscape park/heritage park

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German term or phrase:Landschaftspark
English translation:landscape park/heritage park
Entered by: Hilary Davies Shelby

01:56 Jan 26, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Tourism & Travel / conservation/tourism/scenery/land use
German term or phrase: Landschaftspark
Hello all!

Anyone got any idea what we would call this type of area/development?

"Beim Landschaftspark XX handelt es sich nicht um die Gestaltung einer künstlichen Gartenanlage and auch nicht um ein Schutzgebiet. Vielmehr bezeichnet der Landschaftspark XX ein elf Gemeinden umfassendes Gebiet, das sich durch eine reichhaltige Kulturlandschaft auszeichnet.

Many thanks for any ideas!

Hilary ;-)
Hilary Davies Shelby
United States
Local time: 13:18
Landscape Park
Explanation:
This might seem like a pretty literal translation, but the link I found seems pretty reliable. Landschaftspark Duisburg was the first one that springs to mind and as this certainly isn't based in the country, I'd avoid any countryside references - take a look at the picture - it's built on a former industrial site.

I know google isn't the be all and end all, but for your information it lists 7590 hits for "landscape park", including one in England (see link 2).

So, in my opinion: Why not call a spade a spade?
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Sarah Downing
Local time: 14:18
Grading comment
Hiya - I went with Landscape and Heritage Park in the end - i thought someone had posted that but maybe I'm havering since I can't see it now! Anyway, thanks very much to everyone for the great suggestions!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Landscape Park
Sarah Downing
3 +2pastoral park
Kim Metzger
2 +1regional park
bigedsenior
2country park
Claire Cox


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
pastoral park


Explanation:
I'm not sure if this is right for your park, but it's a possibility to consider.
My Lexikon der Landschafts- und Stadtplanung says: Landschaftspark, see Landschaftsgarten. Landschaftsgarten: landscape park, pastoral park (romantic park with varied landscape forms, quaint structures, and large wildflower meadows.

Vaux's and Olmsted's concept of a park that would combine placid pastoral elements and rugged, varied and energetic "picturesque" elements was simple. A pastoral park consisted of wide expanses of comparatively level grassland on which sheep grazed, bordered by clusters of trees placed to create an illusion of indefinite space. The interplay of pastoral and arboreal elements provided city people with views of nature they could not find in neighborhoods where they lived and worked. By offering them free, open, clean and beautiful spaces that were the opposites of the squalid, congested, polluted, and monotonous spaces in nineteenth-century cities, public parks gave people a measure of solace and enjoyment.
http://members.cox.net/ramero/parsons.htm


Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 12:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 88

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Robert Kleemaier: If you've got a subscription to the Encyc Brit, go to this link and enter the site: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9022084. Well researched, Kim
1 hr
agree  Steffen Walter
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
regional park


Explanation:
A suggestion.

bigedsenior
Local time: 11:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  rangepost
1 min
  -> thanks, rangepost
neutral  Robert Kleemaier: perhaps, but the German raises in my mind that the emphasis is being placed on 'Landschaft' for a reason.
1 hr
  -> thanks, Robert
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
country park


Explanation:
Hi Hilary - as usual this depends very much on the rest of the text. If this park is in a fairly rural setting, then you cold certainly use "country park"; if it's more urban, then maybe heritage park/area would be better.

Claire Cox
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 63
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Landscape Park


Explanation:
This might seem like a pretty literal translation, but the link I found seems pretty reliable. Landschaftspark Duisburg was the first one that springs to mind and as this certainly isn't based in the country, I'd avoid any countryside references - take a look at the picture - it's built on a former industrial site.

I know google isn't the be all and end all, but for your information it lists 7590 hits for "landscape park", including one in England (see link 2).

So, in my opinion: Why not call a spade a spade?


    Reference: http://www.arch.hku.hk/teaching/cases/duisburg/Duisburg.htm
    Reference: http://www.gardenvisit.com/g/croo.htm
Sarah Downing
Local time: 14:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Hiya - I went with Landscape and Heritage Park in the end - i thought someone had posted that but maybe I'm havering since I can't see it now! Anyway, thanks very much to everyone for the great suggestions!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Craig Meulen
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Craig
agree  Frosty: Without a doubt
2 days 5 hrs
  -> Thank you Frosty
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