Kagran school garden
The Kagran school garden on Donizettiweg in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt , is managed by the Municipal Department (MA) 42 - Wiener Stadtgärten and serves the vocational school for horticulture and floristry as an area for practical training. It is also open to the public and the venue for information events.
history
The vocational school for gardeners was created in 1928 by converting a plant wintering house built in 1912 - the orangery - into a school building. The surrounding garden area has served as a training facility for apprentices ever since .
After the Second World War, the school garden was taken over by MA 42 and redesigned and modernized between 1959 and 1960. In 1977 the school garden, which was originally seven hectares in size, had to be reduced by about one hectare due to the construction of the U1 underground line .
Since the construction of a new school building between 2001 and 2002, the former school building has served as the Austrian Horticultural Museum.
See also: Hirschstetten flower gardens
investment
On an area of 60,000 square meters with around 2,250 square meters of high-glass surfaces and five foil tunnels with around 1,800 square meters, in addition to the gardens necessary for apprentice training, the school garden offers visitors a variety of art and buildings, and above all numerous themed gardens. Over 3,200 different plant species are cultivated here.
In the 2007/2008 school year, the Kagran school garden served the practical training of around 700 apprentices in the professions of agricultural gardeners (production gardeners ), landscape and green space designers , cemetery and ornamental gardeners and florists .
Themed gardens
There are numerous themed gardens on the area of the Kagran school garden , including:
- Franz Karl Effenberg Asiagarten : This garden was created in 2000 and shows plants from the temperate climatic zone in East Asia in the style of Far Eastern garden culture.
- Claude Monet Garden : This garden was created between 1999 and 2002 and is similar to Claude Monet's garden in Giverny , France.
- Ginkgo Goethe Garden : The creation of this garden was inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who in 1815 gave a friend a leaf from a ginkgo tree.
- Hexengarten : was laid out in 2002 in the form of a dog's foot and planted with wild plants and shrubs that are more or less poisonous.
- Shakespeare Garden Vienna : Plants play a role again and again in William Shakespeare's plays, and so quotations from his plays are combined with real flowers.
- Prairie Garden : This garden opened in September 2007 and was laid out with the help of the United States Embassy .
Buildings
Interesting structures in the Kagran school garden:
- Gatehouse : this served as a heating outlet in the former Rothschild nursery on the Hohe Warte.
- Wedding pavilion : this Salettl comes from the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 and was given to MA 42 in 1998, restored and reopened on November 3, 1999 in the school garden.
- Kleingartenhütte : this is from 1916, was given to the Austrian Horticultural Museum and has been in the Kagran school garden since 2001.
Artwork
The mosaic of the " flower goddess Flora and gardener god Vertumnus " designed by Viennese artist Leherb (Helmut Leherbauer) in 1960 is presented as a work of art .
Training center
The school garden represents the practice area for the practical training of the students of the vocational school for horticulture and floristry. For this purpose it is divided into five departments:
- Nursery,
- Vegetable growing,
- Glass house,
- Landscape and
- Perennials.
Events
In the Kagran school garden, various workshops related to plants and plant cultivation as well as the “green adventure days” - these always have a specific motto - are held. During the summer holidays, the "green vacation days" offer the opportunity to relax in the countryside. In addition, the Kagran school garden is a popular place for civil marriages and offers space for around 50 guests.
Registered groups are also given the opportunity to take a tour for the deaf.
Austrian Horticultural Museum
The Austrian Horticultural Museum has been located in the former orangery since 2003, which, after being renovated in 1928, served as a vocational school until 2002. The museum mainly shows exhibits that document the history of horticulture and allotment gardening in Austria. The collection was expanded in 2001 to include the Austrian Museum of Flower Binding .
Footnotes
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/vtx/rk?DATUM=20070905&SEITE=020070905010
Web links
- Kagran School Garden - official
- School garden Kagran - vocational school for horticulture and floristry
- Garden of diversity
- Vienna's hidden treasure of plants (Wiener Zeitung)
- School garden Kagran - photo series on flickr
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 35 " N , 16 ° 25 ′ 45.7" E