Botanical Garden (Berlin)

Giant Bamboo in the Big Greenhouse

Cactus greenhouse

Victoria Greenhouse

The Berlin Botanical Garden is one of the largest ^[1] and oldest botanical gardens in Europe and the world.

Full name - Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem ( German: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem ); This is a comprehensive research, educational, auxiliary and cultural and educational institution, which is based on an extensive collection of about 22 thousand living plants located on an area of about 43 hectares .

The main garden collection is located in Lichterfeld , a district of Berlin that is part of the Steglitz-Zelendorf administrative district in the south-west of the city. The word "Dahl" in the title is nothing more than a historical relic dating back to the time of the founding of the Botanical Garden on the territory of the Royal Farm of Dahl. The western border of the modern garden area is also the border of the Lichterfäde and Dahlem districts.

The main buildings of the botanical garden were designed and erected between 1897 and 1910 under the supervision of Adolf Heinrich Gustav Engler (1844-1930), a major German botanist from the second half of the 19th to the first third of the 20th century. According to the last will of Engler, he is buried in the garden he created.

The main axis in the Italian garden with a tropical greenhouse in the background

Content

1 Institution structure
2 Collection
3 History
4 Gallery
5 Park sculpture
6 Transport
7 notes
8 Literature
9 References

Institution Structure

Initially, a research complex in Dahlem was built to house exotic plants brought by German scientists from long-distance expeditions, including from German colonies .

As a legal entity, the Berlin Botanical Gardens are now included in the system of institutions of the Free University of Berlin and include the Botanical Museum with the largest herbarium ( lat. Herbarium Berolinense ) and a fundamental scientific library.

In addition to buildings for research purposes, the complex of buildings of the botanical garden includes a number of greenhouses . The total area of greenhouses and greenhouses is 6000 m². In addition to them, on an area of about 43 hectares , open ground plants are cultivated, orderly planted in accordance with their geographical origin. The arboretum of the botanical garden covers an area of 14 hectares.

Collection

Construction of the Great Greenhouse (1905)

Greenhouses of the Berlin Botanical Garden, for example, the cactus pavilion. Widely known to him. Victoriahaus - a conservatory with a swimming pool for the giant Victoria Amazon ( Victoria amazonica ), by whose name this conservatory is named. No less attention of garden visitors is attracted to collections of orchids and exotic insectivorous plants .

The Large Tropical Greenhouse ( German: Das Große Tropenhaus ) at the time of its construction became the largest of these structures in the world. This is a 25-meter construction made of glass and steel, with a foundation measuring 30 × 60 meters. Throughout this volume (more than 40 thousand cubic meters), a constant temperature of 30 ° C and high humidity are maintained. Among other tropical plants, a giant bamboo grows in this greenhouse.

History

Plan of the Berlin Botanical Garden at the beginning of the XX century

The building for the museum, herbarium and library. C. 1905

The Botanical Museum with the outbuilding for the herbarium completed in 1987

Arbor for reports. Photo above about 1905, below 100 years later

Fountain by Japanese sculptor Makato Fujiwara ( German: Makato Fujiwara ). 1987 year

Gallery

Main entrance to the Botanical Garden
Subtropics Pavilion

Victoria Amazon
Old silver poplar

Alpine landscape
Greenhouse (Australia, New Zealand)

Park Sculpture

Gravestone of Friedrich Althof. Sculptor Hans Krukeberg, artificial stone

Friedrich Althoff ( German: Friedrich Althoff ), a high school assistant in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, who supported the construction of university buildings, was buried at his own request in 1908 in a botanical garden. In 1911, a gravestone monument was erected for him, made by the sculptor Hans Krukeberg ( German: Hans Krückeberg ).

The Berlin Botanical Garden is decorated with numerous works by various sculptors created at different times, for example, in the Italian Garden - “Enthusiasm” (1916), “Flutist” (1928), “Girl with an Oleander Branch” (1928); under the oak tree not far from the entrance there is the Sower, between the department of medicinal plants and the systematic one there is a bronze sculpture “Young Girl” by Fritz Klimsh , photo of 2008

Transport

Entrance to the station "Botanical Garden" of the Berlin city train

Notes

↑ BGBM: Kurzinfo / Garten Archived June 28, 2010 on the Wayback Machine

Literature

Botanical gardens of the world. (Quick reference). - M., 1959
International directory of botanical gardens. - Utrecht, 1963.
Lack., Hans Walter. Botanisches Museum Berlin: Adolf Engler - Die Welt in einem Garten. - München: Prestel Verlag, 2000. - ISBN ISBN 3-7913-2315-6 . (German)

Links

[gbsadi-1] BGBM: Kurzinfo / Garten Archived June 28, 2010 on the Wayback Machine