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The article analyses the formation of mental links between the population of East Prussia and the naturaland cultural landscape of the said German province after World War I. By interpreting landscape as animaginary space whose symbols may impact identity, the author analyzes several ways of nationalizationof the East Prussian landscape. They include: studies of the homeland newly defined by the VersaillesPeace Treaty at school and in daily life; popularization of tours for youth of the pre-promoted places ofthe province; organized care of wartime military cemeteries moderately integrated into the landscape; theconstruction of the Tannenberg memorial complex and giving meanings to it; and reconstruction of wardevastatedcities and towns of East Prussia. The article demonstrates that the creation of meaningful linksbetween the German population, the homeland (East Prussia), the elements of its natural and culturallandscape, and the Fatherland (Germany) formed a unique perception of the region which was primarilyrelated to its meaning of a German outpost in the East.KEY WORDS: East Prussia, regional identity, natural and cultural landscape, youth tours, outpost, World War I. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v24i0.285

Was verstehen wir unter Kulturlandschaften? Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Verständnissen, Deutungen und Bewertungen von Kulturlandschaft, die sich auf deutsche, polnische und bilaterale Untersuchungen stützen. Ziel ist dabei nicht allein, Verständnisse von Landschaft und deren sozialwissenschaftlicher Beforschung im deutsch-polnischen Vergleich darzulegen, sondern im Sinne einer interdisziplinären Ausrichtung auch alternative Verständnisse und empirische Herangehensweisen als Option für die eigene Forschung zu erkunden und anzubieten. Der Band ist damit ein Wegweiser, der aufschlussreiche Narrationen konstruiert, die bei der Erkundung, Entdeckung und Entschlüsselung von Kulturlandschaften zu neuen, tieferen Sinnzusammenhängen verhelfen.
What do we mean when we talk about cultural landscapes? This volume examines different perceptions, interpretations and assessments of cultural landscapes, based on German, Polish and bilateral studies. The aim is not only to present different readings of landscape and its social science research in a German-Polish comparison, but also to explore and offer alternative interpretations and empirical approaches as an option for one's own research in the sense of an interdisciplinary orientation. The volume thus serves as a guide that constructs revealing narratives that help find new, deeper interpretive contexts of meaning in the exploration, discovery and decoding of cultural landscapes.