Orchard

The Obstgengarten is a Garden with trail remodeled orchard and includes selected fruit trees with rare fruits in open-access box location Bad Schönborn in the district of Karlsruhe .
The term “fruit gene garden” hides the task of preserving the diversity of varieties ( genes ) of the orchards and cottage gardens for future generations.

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Location

The fruit gene garden begins east of the spa area in the Bad Mingolsheim district near the garden railway system and ends in a circular path on Professor-Kurt-Sauer-Straße opposite the Sigmund Weil / Gotthard Schettlerklinik. It can be easily reached by car or on foot from the Bad Mingolsheim district.

aims

In detail, the fruit gene garden has several goals:

Preservation of rare and culturally and historically important types of fruit (especially in southwestern Germany) and their varieties ( biodiversity ).

Conveyance of environmental education and local history knowledge and the associated communication of sustainable economic forms as well as the anchoring of values from the areas of love of nature and the homeland.

Preservation and promotion of the orchards and their products in general.

Health aspects

Increased attractiveness for the health resort Bad Schönborn.

implementation

In 1995 the first young trees were made by the "AHNU Bad Schönborn eV". and the community planted. Around 230 apple , pear , cherry , plum , plum , walnut , apricot , mulberry and other edible trees have been preserved in the complex . Large-format display boards convey various aspects of fruit, healthy nutrition and nature conservation . There is also a " wild bee hotel " in the complex , a hedge with native bushes (with pictures) and two rustic seating groups for having a snack and lingering .

Multiplication of the varieties

For long-term preservation of the extinction of endangered species they are in nurseries propagated or by the association aufveredelt . The orchard initiative in the city and district gives trees to members every year. The AHNU planted more trees on a further 6 hectares of the district . Since 2010 there have been around 350 varieties in the conservation project.

Awards

2000 Award of the Ministry for Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg as a "Concrete Project of Local Agenda 21 ".
2002 Oberdieck Prize of the Pomologen-Verein e. V. for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of the conservation of plant genetic resources in fruit growing.

literature

The Bad Schönborn municipal administration has published a book on the history of the origins of the fruit educational trail and today's Central European fruit species as well as the ecology and history of fruit growing . It describes many of the types of fruit found on site. Municipal administration Bad Schönborn: The fruit gene garden Bad Schönborn , Verlag Regionalkultur, 2002, ISBN 3-89735-197-8

collaboration

The AHNU Bad Schönborn eV works with various associations and institutions that deal with the preservation and promotion of the abundance of fruit varieties and the orchards. He is a member of the Pomologen-Verein e. V. and the orchard initiative in the city and district of Karlsruhe.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Oberdieck Prize
↑ The Oberdieck Prize 2002 for Erwin Holzer (PDF; 117 kB)
↑ The book with 145 pages is available from the town hall, the spa administration or by mail from the “AHNU” association.

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[1] Oberdieck Prize

[2] The Oberdieck Prize 2002 for Erwin Holzer (PDF; 117 kB)

[3] The book with 145 pages is available from the town hall, the spa administration or by mail from the “AHNU” association.