Botanischer Garten Marburg
Introduction Botanischer Garten MarburgArboretumGreenhousesThe '''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 classificationIn 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, . * 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.