Abstract Orchard meadows are appreciated as an integrated land use of high cultural and biological value. While such meadows are typical habitats for temperate Europe, they experienced a decline in their total area during the second half of the 20th century, both in Western and Eastern Europe. In this contribution, we compare their current area and status in terms of semantics, law, public support in general, and the efficiency of public support in both Saxony and the Czech Republic. We estimated the area in Saxony on the basis of three public mapping projects. In the Czech Republic, where no recent mapping included orchard meadows as a specific land-use type, we carried out our own mapping. Hence, we mapped 124 randomly selected plots of 1 km2. To cross-reference results from both countries, we used the pan-EU project LUCAS (Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey). According to various different sources, the orchard meadows cover 0.09–0.55% of Saxony and 0.01–0.72% of the Czech Republic. Interestingly, the results of the three mapping projects conducted in Saxony vary from each other. Although orchard meadows are supported by financial incentives of the respective governments in both countries, the Saxon approach concentrating more on individual activities (sanitation of old trees, planting, grassland management), seems more focused than the single measure practised in the Czech Republic. One key to a greater public awareness of the orchard meadow problematic can lie in the promotion of a simple expression referring to this specific landscape feature in Czech, similar to the phrase common in the German language: ‘Streuobstwiese’. Our suggestion for the Czech language is: ‘luční sad’.

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中欧果园草甸的现状：萨克森州（德国）和捷克共和国的多源区域估计

摘要果园草甸被视为具有高文化和生物价值的综合土地利用。虽然这类草地是欧洲温带地区的典型栖息地，但在20世纪下半叶，无论在西欧还是东欧，它们的总面积都在减少。在此贡献中，我们从语义，法律，总体公共支持以及萨克森州和捷克共和国的公共支持效率方面比较了它们的当前领域和状态。我们根据三个公共测绘项目估算了萨克森州的面积。在捷克共和国，最近没有地图绘制将果园草甸作为特定的土地利用类型，因此我们进行了自己的绘制。因此，我们绘制了124个1 km2随机选择的图。为了交叉引用两国的结果，我们使用了泛欧盟项目LUCAS（土地使用/覆盖面积框架调查）。根据各种不同的来源，果园草甸覆盖了萨克森州的0.09-0.55％和捷克共和国的0.01-0.72％。有趣的是，在萨克森州进行的三个测绘项目的结果彼此不同。尽管果园草甸得到了两国政府的经济激励，但撒克逊人的方法更多地集中于个人活动（老树的卫生，种植，草地管理），而不是捷克共和国实行的单一措施。提高公众对有问题的果园草甸的认识的一个关键在于推广一种简单的表达方式，以表达捷克语中这种特殊的景观特征，类似于德语中常见的短语：“ Streuobstwiese”。