Streuobstwiese (pl. Streuobstwiesen) is a German word that means a meadow with scattered fruit trees or fruit trees that are planted in a field. These meadow orchards are a traditional landscape in the temperate, maritime climate of continental Western Europe. In the 19th and early 20th centuries were planted as rural community orchards that intended for the cultivation of stone fruit. (via Orchard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)