Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture

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The Flora - Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture was an association of botanists, horticultural entrepreneurs and thematically interested sponsors.

history

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach , the initiator of Flora

The society already existed in 1826, but its statutes resolution was only passed by the members on February 22, 1828 in Dresden . Her first name from these statutes was Flora - Society for Botany and Horticulture in Dresden . The main initiator was Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach . Initially, the members were mostly doctors, natural scientists and botanists. The early members of the foundation include the court preacher Christoph Ammon , chamberlain Hans Georg von Carlowitz , court advisor Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig and the secret finance advisor Gustav von Flotow . Other members were Hanns Bruno Geinitz , Heinrich Cotta , Carl Georg Drude , Carl Gustav Carus , Gustav Friedrich Krause , Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst and Max Neumeister . On February 22, 1828 the membership was 31 people.

Initially, the company's activities included the focus on plant culture, scientific botany and auxiliary sciences. As early as the 1840s it had an extensive academic library, an archive and a large collection of herbaria. Most of this scientific inventory burned on May 6, 1849, when the opera house at the Zwinger was ignited during the barricade fighting and the fire spread to the adjoining city pavilion of the Zwinger , where the Flora was based.

From November 9, 1874 to September 30, 1922, the Society for the Promotion of Vocational Training in its sector ran a gardening school . It thus took over a forerunner institution from the agricultural district association in Dresden , which it had founded on October 1, 1856. The students were taught the subjects of occupational studies, horticultural drawing, German, arithmetic, bookkeeping, geometry and civic studies.

The difficult situation of the inflation period in 1922 forced Flora to negotiate with the city of Dresden to take over this school. According to a mutual agreement, the city took over this training facility on October 1, 1922.

After 1900 it gradually changed from a scientific association to a professional gardening association. Her concern then became primarily the maintenance of horticulture and nature conservation. To this end, it also awarded travel grants to particularly skilled young people, with which study trips to the most important parks and gardens in Europe could be undertaken. One of her most important scholarship recipients is likely to have been the later Saxon landscape architect Hermann Schüttauf . He received the scholarship in 1914.

It is believed that the company was dissolved by the administration in 1945 or 1946. However, no further details are known. This company was not re-established after 1990.

Flora was the main organizer of the international horticultural exhibitions in Dresden in 1887 , 1896 and 1907. All three events took place in the Great Garden . At the same time as the II. International Horticultural Exhibition in 1896, the Municipal Exhibition Palace , built in 1894, was opened. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the company, the Anniversary Horticultural Exhibition was held in 1926 .

Messages

  • Carl Traugott Schramm: Communications on Flora, Society for Botany and Horticulture in Dresden , Vol. 1, Arnoldsche Buchhandlung, Dresden, Leipzig, 1848, ( online , Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)).
  • Carl Traugott Schramm: Communications on Flora, Society for Botany and Horticulture in Dresden , Vol. 2, Woldemar Türk, Dresden, 1852, ( online , Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)).
  • Karl Friedrich Ehrig: Communications on Flora, Society for Botany and Horticulture in Dresden , Vol. 3, Dresden, 1864, ( online , Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)).

literature

  • Carl Traugott Schramm: Historical overview of the establishment and effectiveness of the Flora Society for Botany and Horticulture at the celebration of its 25th anniversary on February 22, 1853 , in: Mittheilungen über Flora 2 (1855), pp. 77-89
  • Walter Dähnardt: Festschrift on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Flora. Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture in Dresden 1826–1926 . Edited and published on behalf of the company, Dresden 1926
  • Arno Naumann: Dresden's horticulture up to the founding time of the "Flora" Society for Botany and Horticulture in Dresden (Festschrift). Dresden 1896

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dähnardt, 1926, pp. 10-11
  2. ^ Directory of the members of the Flora, Society for Botany and Horticulture, in Dresden from February 22, 1828 , digitized
  3. ↑ Dänhardt, 1926, p. 37
  4. ↑ Dänhardt, 1926, pp. 51–58

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