Botanischer Garten Oldenburg
53°8′51″N 8°11′53″E / 53.14750°N 8.19806°E The Botanischer Garten Oldenburg (3.7 hectares at its public site at Philosophenweg, plus 1.5 nonpublic hectares at Küpkersweg), more formally known as the Botanischer Garten der Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Oldenburg. Its public gardens are located at Philosophenweg 39, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, and open daily without charge.
The garden was established in 1882 as a teaching garden, enhanced in 1913, and in 1916 augmented by a systematic garden (still existing) of 1200 plant
areas again reworked in 2001.Today the garden is a scientific institution for teaching and research at the university. It currently cultivates about 4000 taxa. Current research projects, as of 2009:
- Phylogeny of genus Hypericum
- Flora of Cactaceae
See also
References
- Botanischer Garten Oldenburg
- Garden map
- BGCI entry
- Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum entry
- Qype entry, with photographs
- Klinger, Peter U., "Botanischer Garten Oldenburg", in Friedrich Ebel et al. (ed), Botanische Gärten Mitteleuropas: Geschichte, technische Einrichtungen, Anlagen, Sammlungen und Aufgaben, Wissenschaftliche Beiträge der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Band 27, Halle, pages 154–155, 1990.
- "Botanischer Garten der Universität Oldenburg", in Loki Schmidt (ed), Die botanischen Gärten in Deutschland, Hamburg : Hoffmann und Campe, pages 238–241, 1997.
