Agricultural technology center Augustenberg
The Agricultural Technology Center Augustenberg (LTZ Augustenberg) in Karlsruhe - Durlach is a state agency of the Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg .
history
The Augustenberg is a foothill of the Kraichgau in the east of Karlsruhe. This hill was used for centuries as a farm garden and princely chamber property of Augustenburg Castle . The property rights went to the state of Baden in 1892 .
The Grand Ducal Baden agricultural horticultural school in Karlsruhe, which was founded in 1851 and expanded to include the agricultural winter school (1864) and the fruit growing school (1873), was moved to the Augustenberg in 1894. The school was merged with the local farm (82 hectares), expanded into a technical school with boarding school and set up as a regional agricultural office.
From the chemical and botanical research institute in Karlsruhe, the State Agricultural Research Institute Augustenberg emerged in 1901 , which joined the Association of German Agricultural Investigation and Research Institutes and was renamed the State Agricultural Research Institute (LUFA) in 1968 . In 2005 the fruit growing teaching and experimental operation was affiliated to the LUFA. Its task is to examine varieties and documents, to carry out cultivation and plant protection tests and to advise on fruit growing.
On January 1st 2007 the Agricultural Technology Center Augustenberg (LTZ Augustenberg) was founded. It emerged from the three previously independent institutions, the Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute, the State Institute for Plant Protection (Stuttgart) and the State Institute for Plant Production (Rheinstetten-Forchheim) with the Institute for Environmentally Friendly Land Management in Müllheim and the Seed Office in Donaueschingen . Today, around 250 employees at the Augustenberg headquarters and the branch offices deal with issues relating to crop production, plant health and product quality. In its laboratories, the LTZ Augustenberg analyzes thousands of samples every year on behalf of authorities, companies and private individuals.
Locations
The headquarters of the LTZ Augustenberg is in Karlsruhe-Durlach. There are also the following branch offices:
- Donaueschingen branch with a focus on potato cultivation
- Emmendingen-Hochburg branch at the Competence Center for Organic Farming Baden-Württemberg (KÖLBW)
- Rheinstetten-Forchheim branch with a focus on plant cultivation experiments
- Research station Tettnang with a focus on hop cultivation
In addition, the LTZ Augustenberg runs a trial operation at the Stifterhof in Odenheim .
Fields of activity
The LTZ Augustenberg is active in the following fields of activity:
- Water protection
- Agricultural soil protection
- Climate protection
- Agrobiodiversity
- Conventional arable and crop production
- Organic farming
- Fruit growing
- Renewable raw materials
- Seed recognition and seed traffic control
- Feed control
- Notification of laboratories
- Plant protection and enforcement of the Plant Protection Act
- Information and knowledge transfer
Web links
literature
- Otto Hauck: State Agricultural School Augustenberg and Gutswirtschaft Augustenberg 1864–1939; Letterpress EF Müller Karlsruhe (Baden) 1939
- Manfred G. Raupp: The development of tobacco cultivation in Germany with special consideration of the development in the community of Staffort ; Engineering school Nürtingen 1962; 2nd expanded edition, Lörrach 2012
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 15.5 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 36.4 ″ E