Aroma Garden Erlangen

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In the aroma garden (June 2011)

The Aroma Garden Erlangen is a public garden of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , designed with aromatic plants . It is located in the middle of the city of Erlangen in the landscape protection area at the palm complex below the Ludwigsbrücke and the Schwabach. Opened as the Garden after two years of construction in 1981, he was the world's first garden of its kind. On the 8,900 sqm site grow about 120 domestic and outlandish aromatic plants, form the flavorings and as medicines , spices are used and for cosmetic preparations.

History and purpose

In the aroma garden; Looking East (July 2007)

The aroma garden in Erlangen was built according to plans and at the instigation of Karl Knobloch from the Institute for Botany and Pharmaceutical Biology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The university made the area available, the former vegetable garden of the former district hospital , known as the Biegelsberger Acker . After the city of Erlangen assured its support, companies in the spice and pharmaceutical industry, gardening shops and citizens of the city made numerous donations available or promised, the employment office approved the co-financing of ABM workers and nature conservation and water management authorities accepted the project without hesitation and the extensive planning was completed, the “preparatory work for the fragrance garden” began in September 1979. As early as the summer of 1980, several thousand plants turned green on the site, where stinging nettles and mountains of rubbish dominated the scene two years earlier; some plants took root for the first time and successfully on European soil. On July 24, 1981, the aroma garden was officially opened and made accessible to the population.

On the one hand, the design of the aroma garden is based on scientific objectives. Part of the garden can be used as an experimental and cultivation area for the Institute of Botany and Pharmaceutical Biology. Internships on the biology of plant ingredients for students of biology, pharmacy and food chemistry are possible; At the same time, diploma and doctoral students can deal with the analysis, but also with the diverse effects of the aromatic substances.

Aromatic plants produce their aromatic substances as essential oil (e.g. in sage, chamomile, fennel etc.), as sulfur-containing aroma precursors in leek plants (e.g. in kitchen onions, garlic etc.), as mustard oils in cruciferous vegetables (e.g. in Radish, mustard, horseradish etc.), as bitter substances (in wormwood, yarrow etc.), as hot substances (in paprika, calamus etc.); and therefore they can be used as medicine, spice, cosmetic and technical aid.

Various institutes of the university, in addition to the Institute for Botany and Pharmaceutical Biology, such as B. Organic chemistry or physiology and biocybernetics were and are very interested in the aroma garden because of the analysis of the ingredients of these plants. For example, the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology provided Hans Jürgen Bestmann (made famous for his studies on insect attractants ) from the Institute for Organic Chemistry with research funds for the development of plant protection products on a natural basis. The majority of the extracts required for this were obtained from the plants in the aroma garden. - At the Institute of Botany and Pharmaceutical Biology, the research group around Karl Knobloch was able to isolate and characterize the active components of the aromatic plants with research funds from various industrial companies and to develop knowledge about their influence and mode of action on living cells and their isolated components.

In the aroma garden; July 2010; Looking west

However, interested citizens and schoolchildren should also benefit from the aroma garden, for which special tours are held. With the planting, which also includes old plants known from Franconian farm gardens, attention was also paid to originality and exclusivity. On foreign plants z. B. American horehound , the Indian nettle , the tulsi of the Hindus ( Ocimum sanctum ), also different kinds of mugwort are planted.

Location and opening times

Entrance to the aroma garden (June 2008)

The aroma garden is located in the Schwabach valley on the northeastern edge of downtown Erlangen. The entrance is to the east of the street called Palmsanlage and south of the Schwabach river , separated from it by Martiusweg.

The aroma garden is open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. from April to October. Admission is free. The dates of the tours can be found on the homepage of the Erlangen Botanical Garden; The tour dates can be viewed under the link “Palmenblatt”, a regular information sheet from the Erlangen Botanical Garden. Age-appropriate guided tours are offered for children. In June every year there is also the “Aroma Garden Day” with special tours, aromatic dishes and entertainment.

Karl Knobloch with young visitors (July 2011)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Public relations department (press office) of the University of Erlangen: 20 years of Aromagarten Erlangen , Media Service Aktuell No. 2460 of July 12, 2001
  2. ↑ Erlangen Botanical Garden: Who actually looks after the aroma garden ? (PDF; 7.7 MB), Das Palmenblatt 1/2011
  3. ^ Database of university museums and collections in Germany: Aromagarten Erlangen , accessed on April 18, 2011.
  4. ↑ europe online magazine: Erlangen , accessed on April 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ Erlanger Nachrichten: Where the nose goes on a fragrance cure. March 18, 1981

literature

  • K. Knobloch, R. Zintl, U. Asmus, J. Metzke: Aromagarten Erlangen. In: Reports of the German Botanical Society , Volume 95 (1982), pp. 277-280.
  • K. Knobloch: The aroma garden in Erlangen. Oberfränkische Verlagsanstalt, Hof 1982, ISBN 3-92161546-1 .
  • HJ Bestmann, B. Claßen, U. Kobold, O. Vostrowsky, F. Klingauf, H. Strobel, K. Knobloch: Vegetable insecticides. II: The essential oil from leaves of balsam herb , Chrysanthemum balsamita L. In: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung , Vol. 39c (1984), pp. 543-547.
  • K. Knobloch, H. Weigand, N. Weis, HM Schwarm, H. Vigenschow: Action of Terpenoids on Energy Metabolism. In: EJ Brunke (Ed.): Progress in Essential Oil Research. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1986, pp. 429-445.
  • A. Pauli, K. Knobloch: Inhibitory Effects of Essential Oil Components on Growth of Food-Contaminating Fungi. In: Journal for food research and research , Vol. 185 (1987), pp. 10-13.
  • K. Knobloch, A. Pauli, B. Iberl, H. Weigand, N. Weis: Mode of Action of Essential Oil Components on Whole Cells of Bacteria and Fungi. In: P. Schreier (ed.): Bioflavour '87. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1988, pp. 287-299.
  • K. Knobloch, A. Pauli, B. Iberl, H. Weigand, N. Weis: Antibacterial and Antifungal Properties of Essential Oil Components. In: Journal of Essential Oil Research , Vol. 1 (1989), pp. 119-128.
  • K. Knobloch, G. Winkler, E. Lohmüller, J. Landshuter, D. Wiegand, W. Haupt, J. Reith: Flavor Precursors and Their Enzymatic Turnover in Allium Species. In: P. Schreier, P. Winterhalter (Eds.): Progress in Flavor Precursor Studies. Allured Publishing Co., Carol Stream (Illinois, USA) 1993, pp. 175-183.
  • Werner Nezadal , J. Stiglmayr, W. Welß: Botanical collections. In: U. Andraschke, M. Riusinger (Hrsg.): The collections of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. (Accompanying volume for the exhibition “Unpacked, The Collections of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg”) 2007, pp. 97–108.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 56 ″  E