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
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.