Botanischer Garten Jena
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The Botanischer Garten Jena (4.5 hectares) is the second oldest botanical garden in Germany, maintained by the University of Jena and located at Fürstengraben 26, Jena, Thuringia, Germany. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was first established in 1586 as a hortus medicus, six years after the establishment of the Botanical Garden in Leipzig in 1580. In 1630 it was rearranged and expanded significantly by Professor Werner Rolfinck who had previously studied at the Orto botanico di Padova (founded 1545). In 1640 a second section (1.3 hectares in area, north of the city walls) was donated, and a catalog from 1659 documents over 1300 plants in the two gardens. In 1662 the original garden was expanded, with the first heated greenhouse added in 1674, at which time the garden first began to maintain a collection of tropical plants.
In 1770 the garden introduced
Unfortunately, the garden was severely damaged in 1806 in the Napoleonic
Today the garden contains about 12,000 plants. Its outdoor areas include an
See also
References
- Botanischer Garten Jena
- German Wikipedia entry Botanischer Garten Jena
- Garden map
- Ilse Jahn, "Zur Gründungs- und Entwicklungsgeschichte der Jenaer Botanischen Gärten (von 1586 bis 1864)", in Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 37. Jg. Heft 1. (1988), pages 17–25.