Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg

The Botanical Garden Heidelberg lies on the north bank of the Neckar from Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld. It belongs to the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and is a department of the local Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg ( COS).

History

The Botanical Garden was founded in 1593 as Hortus medicus at that time already 200 years old, Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, and is the third oldest botanical garden Germany.

Throughout its history, the location of the garden was a total of seven times laid.

The current seventh garden was built by Georg Albrecht Klebs and his head gardener Erich Behnick on the campus and opened in 1915. By bombings of the garden largely lost its plant stands shortly before the end of the Second World War.

Chaired by Prof. Dr. Werner Rauh, garden director in the years 1960-1982, the garden got its today's rich collections focus ( succulents of the Old and New Worlds, neotropical orchids, bromeliads ).

The botanical garden today

Plant collections

In the Botanical Garden Heidelberg are currently more than 14,000 plant species in culture. The focus of the collection of the garden lies in the greenhouses. The following 11 special collections here are the heart:

  • Succulents of the Old World (excluding Madagascar)
  • Succulents Madagascar
  • Succulents of the New World
  • Tropical orchids
  • Bromeliads ( pineapple family )
  • Cycads ( Palmfarngewächse )
  • Insectivores
  • Tropical Ferns
  • Aristolochiaceae (whistling flower plants )
  • Cyclanthaceae ( disk flowers plants )
  • Mediterranean geophytes

Only a small part of the greenhouses is open to visitors. In principle, the fantastic non-public greenhouses Special collections can be visited, but this must be agreed well in advance to the secretariat a visit date.

Research and teaching

The Botanical Garden is involved in the research and teaching of the connected biological and pharmaceutical institutes of the University. For this plant are used for research and lectures and held ready. As part of the Biodiversity Research of the family (Brassicaceae ) questions of kinship and phylogeography are investigated at the example.

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  • Website and leaflet of the Botanical Garden ( Courtesy of Directorate )
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