Freiburg Botanic Garden

The Freiburg Botanical Garden, founded in 1620, was one of the first in Germany. It was the garden of the medical faculty of Freiburg University, but was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War. It was re-founded but affected by the fortifications built by Vauban, when the city was annexed to France in 1677.

The second Botanical Garden was established at Dreisam River and was 2.7 hectares in area, again attached to the medical faculty of the University. Though affected by floods and the French wars, it had 3,000 plants by 1829, and greenhouses (1827/1828).

The directors included Karl Julius Perleb, Fridolin Karl Leopold Spenner, Alexander Braun, Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Anton de Bary and Julius Sachs.

In 1878 the garden at the Dreisam had to be abandoned, and a new one established in 1879. From 1907 Friedrich Oltmanns was director of the garden, until the First World War. In 1912 from the a new institute building was built, In 1944, the garden was damaged in an air raid. From 1960 to 1965 Hans Mohr was director.

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[http://www.botanischer-garten.uni-freiburg.de/profile_Freiburg_English.htm#botanischer_garten Website (in English) of the Freiburg Botanic Garden]