Halle Botanical Garden
The Botanical Garden Halle is the botanical garden of the German city Halle an der Saale . It was laid out as the Hortus Medicus (medicinal garden) of the University of Halle (founded in 1694).
The famous Neuwerk Monastery was once located on the grounds of the Botanical Garden . The Augustinian monks maintained gardens in which not only vegetables and fruit but also medicinal herbs grew. Nothing remains from this period, however, because after the abolition of the monastery in 1531, the area became the “Prince's Garden” of the Archbishops of Magdeburg , the sovereigns of the city of Halle.
As early as 1698, the professor of theoretical medicine and royal personal physician Georg Ernst Stahl had the first beds planted in part of this garden. A good 100 years later, the University of Halle succeeded in buying all of the land and thus creating the conditions for a botanical garden.
In 1833 Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal became director of the botanical garden.
In 1799 there were already 2,962 plant species in the Botanical Garden, today there are around 12,000 from all over the world. It now has an area of around 4.5 hectares, around 3,000 m² of which is under glass. The garden is under the responsibility of the Institute for Geobotany , which cultivates plants for the work of the various departments. You can visit the Victoria House with the water lilies of the same name , a special collection with cacti , carnivorous plants and tropical orchids and a tropical forest in the palm house.
The historical observatory , also built on the grounds of the garden in 1788 , was also visited by Goethe in 1802 . The building with the four balconies aligned exactly with the cardinal points was reconstructed and is a listed building . A botany school has existed since 1971 in the now more than 300 year old botanical garden. School classes receive vivid biology lessons there. The Botanical Garden is also part of the Saxony-Anhalt Garden Dreams tourist network .
literature
- Fritz Kümmel (Ed.): 300 years of the Botanical Garden of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-930195-36-4
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 20 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 41 ″ E