{"id":11161,"date":"2023-05-03T14:40:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T12:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oderbruchmuseum.de\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:18:07","slug":"europ-kulturerbe-siegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderbruchmuseum.de\/en\/europ-kulturerbe-siegel\/","title":{"rendered":"European Heritage Label"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oderbruch - people make landscape<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, the Oderbruch will be the first cultural landscape to receive the European Heritage Seal. The seal is awarded to the landscape as cultural heritage because the ideals and history of the EU are symbolized here in a special way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Under the title \"The Oderbruch - People Make Landscape\", the cultural landscape presents itself as a concise example of the anthropogenic shaping of landscapes in European history. As a clearly definable and largest settled river polder in Europe, it has a spatially transcending water system, a so-called landscape machine, which integrates technical elements from more than 250 years in an extension of almost 1,000 square kilometers. The settlement history of the Oderbruch has been reflected in an extraordinarily high density of architectural monuments and is still very legible for visitors today in the form of fishing villages, colonist villages and loosely built farmsteads. In the self-image of free farmers, responsible for their own existence, the colonists continue to shape a rural democracy that is characterized by a high level of cultural and communal political vitality. Since the Prussian internal colonization of the 18th century, the population of the Oderbruch has been repeatedly enriched by immigration until today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Oderbruch is therefore exemplary for the future of rural areas in Europe. From a historical perspective, the cultural landscape also owes its existence to the most advanced engineering knowledge in Europe in the 18th century. It stands for a large-scale appropriation of nature, laborious but sustainable, because its water system has been continuously optimized and made more environmentally friendly over ten generations of system breaks and wars. Thanks to immigration from many parts of Europe, the Oderbruch is now a particularly diverse rural area: a Little Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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