Altenau Herb Park

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The Altenau Herb Park is a botanical garden specializing in medicinal plants , kitchen herbs and spices in the mountain town of Altenau in the Upper Harz Mountains in Lower Saxony .

Herb park

The herb park was founded in 2004 by Erich Jürgens on an area of ​​4000 square meters. Initially, around 1,000 herbs and spices were shown, both as plants and as processed mixtures. A spice gallery showed around 350 different processed herbs. In 2005 the park was expanded to a total area of ​​30,000 square meters. The plant collection and the gallery have been extensively expanded and, in addition to native plants and spices, also show herbs from all over the world. The plants and their use are presented on information boards. The spice pagoda was built in the park.

Spice gallery

Around 1500 different spices and mixtures are presented in the spice gallery. Some of these come from our own facility, but many international products are also on display. There are also exhibits on the subjects of natural cosmetics and natural medicine. There is a regular roasting of spice mixes in the gallery.

Spice Pagoda

The Spice Pagoda is a ten meter high building that was built in the East Asian style of a pagoda . It houses an exhibition on the history of spices. The main topics include the spice trade by sea ​​to India , the so-called spice route, as well as the incense and silk routes .

Root

Würzel in Altenau

The mountain town of Altenau took part in the competition “Off to the middle! - the City Initiative Niedersachsen ”. With the slogan "Altenau, there, where the pepper grows", the city entered and organized various campaigns on the subject of herbs and spices. The herb park was the focus of the competition entry.

The figure of the root was also designed for the competition . A root is a conical male whose head forms a pot with herbs or spices. The name Würzel refers on the one hand to the spices in Altenau, and on the other hand to express the roots with the homeland. Altenau was one of the 2005 award winners with the concept for the herb park, the roots have been symbolic figures of the city ever since, and the slogan has also been adopted into the city's marketing.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Altenau Herb Park. altenau.de, accessed on June 16, 2015 .
  2. ^ Altenau im Harz - Germany's largest herb park. Longing for Germany, accessed on June 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b herbal park Altenau. oberharz.de, accessed on June 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Sabine Gorsemann, Christian Kaiser: Harz . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7701-7298-6 , pp. 126 .
  5. ↑ "Altenau, where the pepper grows" - smart and peppery. Association of climatic health resorts in Germany, 2005, accessed on June 15, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Beuge: Off to the middle: Award ceremony in Wolfenbüttel. Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport, accessed on June 15, 2015 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 12.5 ″  E