These are common across many of the diverse cultural landscapes in Baden-Wu¨rttemberg and include Streuobstwiesen (an agroforesty system with fruit trees and grasslands), heaths, hedges, historical road systems, ponds, stone walls and monasteries (Landespflege Freiburg und Landesanstalt fu¨r Umwelt, Messungen und Naturschutz Baden-Wu¨rttemberg 2014). These landscape elements have been sustained in many cultural landscapes over a relatively long and complex history of settlement and land use.