Greifswald Botanical Museum

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Model of the blossom of a sour cherry, teaching collection of the Botanical Museum

The Botanical Museum Greifswald is an institution founded by Julius Münter around 1850 , which today belongs to the Botanical Institute of the University of Greifswald . The museum is the largest botanical collection in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and acts as a state herbarium.

history

The oldest evidence of a herbarium in Greifswald can be found in the 17th century, when the botanical garden was set up under Samuel Gustav Wilcke . The Botanical Museum was founded between 1845 and 1855 by Julius Münter, who, with his assistants Hermann Zabel and Ludwig Holtz, mainly collected objects from what was then New West Pomerania . Objects from other regions came to Greifswald through exchange, and an extensive model collection was created for teaching purposes.

Stocks

The collection includes various naturalia such as wood, plant preparations and drugs, as well as artificialia such as models, instruments and blackboards. The core of the collection is on the one hand the herbarium with around 300,000 items and on the other hand the teaching collection with numerous models .

The Herbarium Höhere Pflanzen (GFW) contains evidence of numerous extinct and threatened plants and is also the largest of its kind in the state. The stock comprises around 250,000 specimens of fern and flowering plants, 30,000 specimens of algae, 17,000 specimens of moss and 8,000 lichens. The teaching collection includes numerous flower models by model builders Robert Brendel and Paul Osterloh as well as the “Arnoldsche Obst-Cabinet” with models of 214 (originally 455) types of fruit. The models of the Obst-Cabinet were made from porcelain composites in Gotha between 1856 and 1899.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Starke, S. & Schnittler, M. (2009): The collections of the botanical institute of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . In: Obst, K., Reinicke, G.-B., Richter, S. & Seemann, R. [Hrsg.]: Treasure chambers of nature - natural history collections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . 100 pp., ISBN 978-3-00-025888-6 .
  2. ↑ Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology
  3. ↑ Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology
  4. ↑ universitaetssammlungen.de
  5. ↑ Birgit Litterski: Collections of the Botanical Institute: Cultural Heritage and Collections of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. Edited by Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Rostock 1995, pp. 81–82

literature

  • Birgit Dahlenburg (ed.): Collecting knowledge. The digitized treasures of the University of Greifswald. Collection objects from botany, zoology as well as prehistory and early history Greifswald 2011
  • Birgit Litterski: Collections of the Botanical Institute . In: Cultural property and collections of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . Edited by Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Rostock 1995, pp. 81–82
  • Susanne Starke & Martin Schnittler (2009): The collections of the Botanical Institute of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . In: Obst, K., Reinicke, G.-B., Richter, S. & Seemann, R. [Hrsg.]: Treasure chambers of nature - natural history collections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . 100 pp., ISBN 978-3-00-025888-6 .

Web links

Commons : Botanical Museum Greifswald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '37.9 "  N , 13 ° 22' 0.9"  E