Botanischer Garten Gera

The Botanical Garden Gera is a 0.7 -acre teaching and display garden in the Thuringian city of Gera, in particular the world of plants in eastern Thuringia shows and now part of the Municipal Museum of Natural History.

History

The Botanical Garden goes back to an initiative of the Kommerzienrates Walter Ferber ( 1830-1895 ). He founded the lying above the applied around 1890 Nicolaistraße part of his extensive garden grounds to the city of Gera, on the condition that there is a teaching garden for botanical teaching in urban schools should be created. The design of the garden was made from 1897 through the Headteacher Robert Leube ( 1866-1938 ), supported by a gardener. Leube, who led the Botanical Gardens until 1909, the plant was divided by communities like Meadow, Heath, stream banks, deciduous and coniferous forest, put on a small nursery and held snakes and amphibians in a small terrarium. Leubes successor after 1909 presented taking into account the limited space the plants in the garden rather according to aspects of the system together. From 1947 to 1951, a profound transformation of the garden; In addition, the park was incorporated into the newly founded Museum of Natural History.

Current usage

And situated in the upper part of the botanical garden and built in 1864 tower house was renovated from 1990 to 1995 and serves as a teaching building for the " Green School " of the Museum of Natural History. The plant communities shown today are deciduous forest, semi-arid grassland, rocky and gravel hallway and marsh and aquatic plants; Moreover, a garden of aromatic herbs and a geological teaching wall are present.

The Botanical Garden was a companion project of the Federal Garden Show 2007.