Historical structure of agricultural landscape - part of the village of Liptovska Teplicka

Historical agricultural landscape structures (HLS) are very well preserved in a part of the Liptovska Teplicka's administrative territory (about 800 m - 1,400 m above sea level). Since the origin of the village in 1634, the individual types of HLS developed under the more or less same influence of man/farmer as comparatively stable biotopes with the locally specific bio-component. Intensification of agriculture was so far the most serious intervention into their development. It took place here as late as the 1970's. In spite of it, the biodiversity of the territory is high and apart from the diversity of land use it is determined by the presence of historical forms of anthropogenic relief determined by agriculture (HFAR). In the administrative territory of the village, where no thermophilous vegetation existed, the HFAR created a 130 km long rampart. On this rampart special sites with thermophilous vegetation originated and contributed to the ecological diversity of this territory. The HFAR is the living example of the surviving traditional farming procedures, tools, use of farm animals for tillage, etc. directly in the landscape. Along with the preserved architectural historical structures in the villages (the Goral three-room log houses, log sheds, log potato cellars) they create the genius loci of Liptovska Teplicka. (author)