Mendeleum

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The Mendeleum (originally: Prince Johann von Liechtenstein Plant Breeding Institute JG Mendel ) is dedicated to plant breeding as part of the Mendel University in Brno (Brno). It is named after Gregor Mendel , who discovered the Mendelian rules named after him .

Geographical location

Entrance to the Mendeleum in Lednice

The institute is located as a branch of the University in Lednice (formerly: Eisgrub ) and in the Lednice-Valtice cultural landscape , now a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

history

The Mendeleum is historically closely linked to the Lednice-Valtice cultural landscape. It was founded in 1912. Involved were Erich von Tschermak , then a professor at the Vienna University of Agricultural Sciences , and Wilhelm Lauche also a lecturer at the university and director courtyard of the Prince of Liechtenstein and head of the Higher Horticultural School Eisgrub . The project was supported by the Imperial and Royal Agriculture Ministry for Cisleithanien and Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein . The prince made the operating areas available in his rule Eisgrub and took over part of the operating costs.

After the First World War , the Mendeleum was affiliated with the Higher Fruit and Horticultural School . After the Second World War , there were several reorganizations. Ultimately, the Mendeleum , like the Higher Fruit and Horticultural School , became part of the Mendel University in Brno .

tasks

The aim of the research institute was and is plant breeding and refinement as well as genetics today .

Administration building

The administrative building of the Mendeleum was built in 1912 according to a design by Clemens Kattner , who had built the Protestant church in neighboring Lundenburg the year before . The building shows early forms of modernism and almost completely dispenses with historical decor. Inside, the rooms are grouped around a large, two-story hall with a staircase and symmetrically arranged walkways.

literature

  • Hans Recht: The Higher Fruit and Horticultural School (1895–1938), the State Research and Research Institute for Horticulture and Higher Horticultural School (1938–1945) and the Prince Liechtenstein Plant Breeding Institute (Mendeleum) (1912–1945) in Eisgrub . Scientific Antiquarian H. Geyer, Vienna 1976.
  • Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Pŕemysl Krejčiŕik and Ondŕej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Pŕemysl Krejčiŕik and Ondŕej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 80.
  2. ↑ Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Pŕemysl Krejčiŕik and Ondŕej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 80.
  3. ↑ Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Pŕemysl Krejčiŕik and Ondŕej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 80.
  4. ^ Mendeleum on the website of the Mendel University, Brno .
  5. ↑ Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Pŕemysl Krejčiŕik and Ondŕej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 80.

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '36.6 "  N , 16 ° 47' 57.7"  E