the city, including the district of Gmünd in Lower Austria on the border with the Czech Republic is well suited for dealing with the subject "Landscape and limit", then woven together, not a single example, but an outstanding due to the particular constellation, which stems from a divided city is.
The border is an old yet very young. The boundary is in the mind and reality. The border has much relevance in everyday life, but changes since the border opened in 1989, once again, the exact nature of this "frontier life" very slow and very strong. If you cross the country to Gmünd the border towards the Czech Republic, one can easily see the landscape that you are in another country. That was ~ 90 years ago when the first time the border was closed, a different situation. At that time it was the collapse of the monarchy that led to the area near Gmünd to larger effects. Today we see the changes that have left all these years.
exciting for me is the landscape learn. People and landscape are intimately connected. This can comprehend it, get involved in knowing a little about yourself and about the landscape. With the help of the landscape with a theme deal here, "the border". What does this mean for me
border? where are my limits? How do I deal with limits? How do I set limits? How do I perceive boundaries of other people? How do I perceive boundaries in the landscape? How do I know limits from other living things? Plants? Animals? Wild and domestic animals and animals in breeding in agriculture? Landscape is everything, everything that we perceive through our five senses, including ourselves, and continue the aid of other senses like feeling, an idea of remembering there are other tools in the experience of landscape.
connect with the landscape expand your own perception. The more I perceive my eyes open, the more I can perceive other people. This can enhance communication at all levels and improve the quality of sharing. That might let us all help our environment, the landscape, to better understand the basis of our world. Once a very sensual, in fact, by sitting on the floor and touching earth. Then again, looking very much by einspürt to the landscape feels, and experiences stored in their history. There are no right and wrong. The own perception is always the bar and individually for each person. By sharing it can be a source of learning and inspiration, we can expand all so new technology and ideas of perception.
Gmünd, for me at the same time limit and no. The country is divided and simultaneously one. I assume that is partly due to the landscape form, the rather flat country where the moves of the Wasserzug Lainsitz, all on a fairly large amount, a highland. That there was no "accident" is that place just to form a border. The Gmünder country is for me the crown of Austria. And the country is Gmünder closely with the Czech Republic connected. And in fact the area is something entirely separate. Come to me since so descriptions such as "balancing, gentle and very strong, durable, well-rooted, far-sighted, durable, adaptable, patient, connected and collaborative."
I've lived since 2002 in the Waldviertel, 15 months of it in the district of Gmünd, a very busy time for me personally. The first time I was there in 1999, I think anyway :-). Since then it has attracted me ever again. My bachelor thesis is about Gmünd and the opening of the border, from spatial planning perspective. Those who are interested - Report it! Anything else is a link to the city hereby Gmünd - it is really worth visiting, in many ways!
http://www.gmuend.at
The city on the other side of the border is the way České Velenice,
http://www.velenice.cz/index.php?id = pageger
including the former settlement, which has developed around the railway station in Gmünd, with the central workshop of the Franz-Josefs-Bahn.
