Botanischer Garten Hamburg

The Loki Schmidt Garden (until 2012 Botanical Garden Hamburg) is part of the Biozentrum of the University of Hamburg and consists of two parts, an outdoor area in the immediate vicinity of the Biozentrum in Hamburg- Osdorf on small Flottbeck and tropical greenhouses on the grounds of planets S-Bahn station un Blomen near the city center.

History

The Botanical Garden in Hamburg, was founded in 1821 by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann. First techn. Leader was Johann Heinrich Ohlendorff. Originally 2.5 ha in size, it was extended several times. In 1857, the City of Hamburg transformed it into a state institution; since the founding of the University of Hamburg in 1919 a part of her Botanical Institute. Until the 1970s, the garden was exclusively in the Hamburg city walls on the site of today Planten un Blomen. He has also been used by scientists Amalie Dietrich, Otto Wilhelm Sonder and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach.

The air raids on Hamburg during the Second World War destroyed large parts of the open land and greenhouses. The reconstruction of the Botanical Garden was (IGA ) significantly affected by the three International Horticultural Exhibitions of 1953, 1963 and 1973.

First was the repair of war damage and the recovery in attractive gardens in the foreground for the IGA in 1953. Under the IGA 1963, by the architect Bernhard Hermkes and horticulturist John Apel built the 2,500 square meter tropical greenhouses and redesigned by Karl Plomin the entire old botanical garden.

With the IGA in 1973 at the same time laying the botanical garden was planned and decided in 1970 by the Hamburg Parliament. The construction began in 1971, after nearly eight years of construction, the approximately 25 -acre new open space was opened on July 5, 1979. The tropical greenhouses remained at the old site. In 1986 the still existing remains of the old botanical garden was converted into a public park. The local building of the Botanical Institute was later acquired by the Bucerius Law School plus two additional new buildings.

On 23 October 2012, the " New Botanical Garden " in lower - Flottbeck was renamed in honor of Hannelore " Loki " Schmidt, Loki Schmidt garden.

Structure and scope

The Botanical Garden is first and foremost a scientific collection for teaching and research tasks of the Institute of Biology, and sells to the Biozentrum with the necessary for his work plant material, but is also a public park and is intended to meet the information needs of the public needs to botanical questions. Since about 1980 he has been integrated into various conservation projects and maintains some so-called protection and preservation of collections. Both the outdoor area as well as the tropical greenhouses are accessible free of charge to the opening times.

Outdoor area

The outdoor area is concerned with various aspects of the biology, ecology, distribution and relationship of plants, but also with questions of their usage and processing. It is divided into three thematic areas of plant systematics, plant geography and plant and man.

The 7,000 square meter area of ​​plant systematics is the centerpiece of the garden. Here an attempt is made 75 plant beds with representatives of individual orders to be arranged so that the ties of kinship and suspected lineages are represented. Here, the garden is based on a system developed by AL Takhtajan and by 2009 largely -applied system. The concept that plants represent ordered by lines of development, there is also in the rose garden where the wild forms are at the top of a hill and current breeding forms at its foot.

The field of plant geography introduces various natural spatial regions. It will seek to achieve this with plants that grow in the Hamburg climate in the field. Taking care of some of the areas, which are widely different from that air spaces, such as mountains, marshes or dunes, however, requires considerable effort. Of particular note in this area are the representation of the southeastern North America through a grove of bald cypress, the Chinese Garden and the Japanese Garden designed by Yoshikuni Araki.

In the field of plant and human the teeth of human life with the Botany supposed to represent. Here, extensive collections of useful and ornamental plants plants found as well as those of poisonous plants. In the form of various theme gardens (eg Low German cottage garden, Bible Garden, typical allotment ) are also presented cultural and historical aspects. Opened in 2005, 3.000 m² large desert garden offers a naturally designed part and a part to typical agricultural oasis. He is supposed to represent particular aspects of desertification and desertification.

The Propagator in the open area to serve on small display and function rooms the research operation of the Biozentrum and are one of its central institutions.

Tropical greenhouses

The greenhouses to cultivate plants that are located in foreign climates. They are divided into several structurally distinct regions, each having its own climate conditions: Tropical House, Palmfarnhaus, Subtropenhaus, fern house and cactus house. Each greenhouse is either on the plant communities of a certain climate or a particular group of plants. The Palmfarnhaus displays a rare collection of these very slow-growing plants, some of which are over 100 years old and are among the first imported into Europe specimens of bread cycads.

Cooperations

A joint facility of the Institute for Teacher Training and School Development and the University of Hamburg, Department of Biology, is the Green School. These are indoor plants and test plants for the cell theory out, as the need arises but also carnivorous plants ( carnivores ), succulents, plants for the evolution of the leaf, tree grates, scented geraniums, laid exaggerated onions and tropical crops.

A Friends of the Society of Friends of the Botanic Garden of Hamburg eV, regularly offers expert guided tours with changing topics by the outdoor area and the tropical greenhouses, additional plants consultations and seminars will be organized and some special areas supervised outdoors.

Museum

With funding by the time the Foundation Loki Schmidt House Museum was built as for crops and successor to the collections of the Botanical Institute. The preserved in the museum's collection includes used by people plants and their raw materials and processing steps. One of the focal points are useful plants from overseas. Today, the museum's collection includes about 50,000 objects, including the Karpologische collection, the teaching collection for teaching purposes as well as collections of medicinal plants, fungi and wood. The purist building with the characteristic cobalt blue tiles cladding wraps around 460 m² of exhibition space.

Works of art

Before the entrance to the outdoor area was set up in 1982, the bronze sculpture " Adam plunders his paradise " by Waldemar Otto. Originally nor an Eve - figure should be placed, whose hand is still visible today in the golden apple tree. However, after public protests over design and cost of the figures was eventually waived. Unknown painted "Adam" after some time, a pair of underpants, which was initially removed several times, but finally remained.

Loki Schmidt has already been set in his lifetime a monument in the Botanical Gardens.

Photos and Map

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Propagator of the Biozentrum

Order by topic: The plants of the Bible

Scent organ in the outdoor area

In the tropical house

Cactus in the shop greenhouses

Adam plunders his paradise by Waldemar Otto in front of the main entrance

Loki Schmidt bust by Manfred Sihle -Wissel