Freiburg Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden Freiburg is a facility of the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg.

History

The Botanical Garden of Freiburg was founded in 1620. He was one of the first in Germany to Leipzig ( 1580), Jena, Heidelberg and Giessen. The former Botanical Garden was created out of medical school as a teaching garden, and was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. He was then re-established, but had to give way to the 1677 planned by Vauban fortifications after the annexation of the city by France.

The second botanical garden was established at the Dreisamstadion and had an area of ​​2.7 hectares and was in turn means the medical faculty of the university. He was serious, several times by floods in Dreisamstadion flood and by influences of the Napoleonic Wars. The garden consisted until 1878, first greenhouses were 1827/1828 set. 1829 its holdings had grown to about 3,000 plant species.

The directors were of partly philosophical, partly of medical school. In addition to Karl Julius Perleb and Fridolin Karl Leopold Spenner were famous botanist among the directors, as Alexander Brown, Carl Wilhelm von Naegeli, Anton de Bary and Julius Sachs

After the garden at the Dreisamstadion had to be abandoned, a new garden was planted in the district of Neuburg in the area of ​​today's Institute of the University district in 1879. In 1907 Friedrich was Oltmanns director of this garden, which existed until the First World War.

After 1912, under the professorship of Oltmanns a new institute building was built, they gave also this garden and moved it to its current location in Herder. 1915, the greenhouses were completed in 1920, the outdoor systems. In 1932, Friedrich Oehlkers director of the garden. In 1944, the garden was severely affected during air raids. From 1960 to 1965 Hans Mohr led the Botanical Garden, followed by Dieter Vogellehner ( 1969-2002 ) and Thomas Speck ( since 2002).

Plant

The Botanical Garden of the current system goes back to the scientific concept that was implemented by the then director Dieter Vogellehner from 1965 and in the center of which is the evolution of plants.

Biotopes

The following habitats ( biotopes ) are present in the Botanical Garden: Alpine vegetation, dunes, heath, marsh, bogs, water.

Glasshouses

In the botanical garden there are four greenhouses with a total area of ​​approximately 900 m², divided into the areas of the tropics, ferns and succulents. In addition, there is a cold greenhouse.