Botanical Garden Tübingen

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Greenhouses of the Tübingen Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden in Tübingen is an institution of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

The botanical garden has an area of ​​around ten hectares and has been on the Morgenstelle in the north of Tübingen since 1969 . The Botanical Garden was previously located near the city center and is still used today as the City Park of the Old Botanical Garden . Today's botanical garden houses around 10,000 plant species from five continents and is open to the general public all year round. It is part of the collections of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT .

location

The Botanical Garden of the University of Tübingen is located on the Nordring , Hartmeyerstraße intersection . It can be reached by public transport using bus line 5 at the “Botanischer Garten” stop. In its location, the garden is separated into a northern and southern part by the north ring .

history

Palm house in the old botanical garden

Leonhart Fuchs founded the first botanical garden in the old town of Tübingen at the nunnery in the 16th century . In the following period the garden changed its location several times. The Hortus Medicus (1663–1804) was behind the old auditorium on what is now the small car park.

After a construction period of three years, a botanical garden was opened along the Ammer in 1809 . A building with four greenhouses was built there on the site of the former playground of the Collegium Illustre . To expand the botanical garden, the university acquired the old cemetery and the site of the former riding school. In 1839 a large stone and glass greenhouse was built. In 1866 this had to give way to a modern cast iron and glass building, the so-called palm house. The building was demolished in 1970, after the Botanical Garden was moved to the Morgenstelle, against strong protests from the population, although it was classified as one of the few examples of a glass-iron structure in southern Germany that still existed at that time, where the possibilities of the glass -Iron architecture was also particularly pure. The garden was there for around 150 years and, after being demolished, is still used today as a city park and a popular meeting place among students called the Old Botanical Garden .

In 1969 the new botanical garden was opened at its current location on Morgenstelle in the north of Tübingen.

Plant collections in the field

Alpinum

The Tübingen Botanical Garden is home to around 10,000 plant species and extends over a total of around ten hectares. The arboretum in the northern part covers about five hectares and has over 100 apple varieties, some of which are rare . The plants are sorted according to geographical and ecological criteria.

Geographically divided plants

Ecologically divided systems

  • Arboretum
  • Rhododendron Valley
  • pagan
  • steppe
  • Systematic department
  • Ecological department
  • Apothecary garden
  • Cottage garden
  • Vineyard
  • Ornamental perennials and fuchsias
  • Exhibition pavilion
  • Moss path
  • Wild bee station
  • Plant galls in the botanical garden

Showhouses

The botanical garden houses five greenhouses:

  • Tropicarium
  • Succulent house
  • Canaries
  • Subtropical house
  • Aquariums

See also

literature

  • Karl Mägdefrau: Guide through the Botanical Garden of the University of Tübingen , self-published by the Botanical Garden, Tübingen undated (1971)

Web links

Commons : Botanischer Garten Tübingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Visitor information Botanical Garden Tübingen
  2. ↑ Hansmartin Decker-Hauff and Wilfried Setzler : The University of Tübingen from 1477 to 1977 in pictures and documents, Attempto-Verlag, p. 251.
  3. ↑ Karin Zeller: No memorial without palm trees. The Tübingen Art Nouveau greenhouse was demolished. Die Zeit, March 6, 1970.
  4. ↑ Information on the Arboterum Tübingen

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '23.4 "  N , 9 ° 2' 9.7"  E