Botanischer Garten Marburg

Botanischer Garten Marburg

Arboretum

Greenhouses

The Botanischer Garten Marburg (20 hectares), also known as the Neuer Botanischer Garten Marburg, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Marburg, located on Karl-von-Frisch-Straße, Marburg, Hesse, Germany, and open daily. An admission fee is charged.

The garden was created between 1961-1977 to replace the Alter Botanischer Garten Marburg, dating from 1810. Its construction involved movement of some 80,000 m³ of earth, creating a pond and a brook about 1 km long, as well as a major effort to build greenhouses. The garden was inaugurated in June 1977 to celebrate the university's 450th anniversary.

Outdoor areas of the garden are organized as follows:

• Alpinum - rock garden representing plants from the high mountains of Europe, western Asia, the Himalayas, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Arboretum - focusing on conifers, including Sequoiadendron giganteum and Metasequoia glyptostroboides, as well as alders, ash, birches, ginkgos, hazels, maples, oaks, deciduous poplars, sycamores, and willows, representing both native and exotic species.
• Burial mounds - Bronze Age graves.
• Fern collection - 80 fern species.
• Forest - spring-blooming plants including Anemone, Gagea, Iris, Narcissus, Pulsatilla, Scilla, and Tulipa.
• Heather and rhododendron garden - numerous heather and rhododendron species including Calluna vulgaris, Erica carnea, Erica cinerea, and Erica tetralix.
• Medicinal and useful plants - including cereals and other carbohydrates, succulents, vegetables, fiber plants, tobacco plants, rubber plants, and dye plants.
• Systematic garden - representatives of seed plant families organized by biological classification

In addition, the garden's greenhouses cover total area of 1,700 square meters as follows: tropical house (545 m², 12 m height); Canary Islands house (182 m² + 82 m², 7 m); tropical crop house (182 m², 7 m) with plants including Ananas comosus and Coffea arabica; Amazon house (123 m², 6 m) containing aquatic plants of the Amazon region including Bruguiera sexangula and Victoria amazonica; tropical fern house (182 m², 7 m); succulent house (227 m², 7 m); Australian outback house (182 m², 7 m); and carnivorous plant house (not open to the public).

See also

• Alter Botanischer Garten Marburg
• List of botanical gardens in Germany

References

• Botanischer Garten Marburg
• Horst Becker: Der Alte Botanische Garten in Marburg an der Lahn (Die Blauen Bücher), Königstein 1997, ISBN 3-7845-0855-3.
• Volker Melzheimer, Hans Christian Weber: Führer durch den Botanischen Garten der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg 1995.
• Marburg. Botanischer Garten der Phillips-Universität in: Loki Schmidt (ed.): Die botanischen Gärten in Deutschland, Hamburg (Hoffmann und Campe) 1997, pages 221-224.
• Rudolf Schmitz: Zur Geschichte des Botanischen Gartens der Philippina in: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung, Band 17 (1977), pages 836-842.
• Rudolf Schmitz: Die Naturwissenschaften an der Philipps-Universität Marburg 1527-1977, Marburg 1978.
• Ingeborg Unterhalt-Schüler: Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth (1774–1861). Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Botanik an der Universität Marburg, Darmstadt (Hessische Historische Kommission) 1989.