Linnaeus garden

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Rudbeck's design for the garden. From his work Atlantica of 1675.
Location of the Linné garden on a map from 1770.

The Linnaeus Garden ( Swedish : Linnéträdgården ) is the oldest botanical garden in Sweden . Today it belongs to Uppsala University .

history

The garden was laid out in Uppsala in 1655 by Olof Rudbeck the Elder based on the model of the botanical garden in Leiden and served the medical education of the university students. In 1685 around 1800 plants were cultivated there. The fire, which destroyed large parts of Uppsala on May 16, 1702, did not spare the garden either. Olof Rudbeck the Younger , who took over the management of the garden after the death of Olof Rudbeck the Elder, could not stop the decline of the garden. In 1739 only 300 plants grew here.

In October 1741 Carl von Linné moved to Uppsala and was also responsible for the garden as the successor to Olof Rudbeck the Younger on the chair of medicine . Linné first had the residential building on the site (it served as his residence until his death) and the greenhouses renewed. As a gardener, he employed Dietrich Nietzel (1703–1756), who came from Germany , whom he had from his time with George Clifford III. on Hartekamp knew.

In 1745 he commissioned the architect Carl Hårleman to redesign the garden. This should be designed according to the classes and orders of his sexual system of plants . In 1748 Linnaeus was able to list around 3000 different plant species in his work Hortus Upsaliensis , all of which grew in "his" garden.

In 1759, Linnaeus's son was given the position of demonstrator of the garden created especially for him and later also became its head.

1787 left King Gustav III. of Sweden the garden of the Uppsala Castle of the University for botanical purposes. Carl Peter Thunberg , director of the garden at the time, used all usable plant material at the new location, and the old garden became meaningless.

Engraving from 1770 with the Linnaeus garden.

reconstruction

The Linnaeus Garden today.

In 1917 the site was bought by the Swedish Linnaeus Society and the garden was recreated according to the detailed description in Linnaeus' Hortus Upsaliensis . In 1935 the garden was placed under state protection as Byggnadsminne . Today around 1300 species grow here and the garden is owned by Uppsala University.

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Coordinates: 59 ° 51 ′ 45 ″  N , 17 ° 38 ′ 3 ″  E