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Address:
A-1030 Wien, Rennweg 14
Opening Hours:
daily from 9 on (information: 01-4277-54100)
Contact:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Kiehn
botanik@univie.ac.at
michael.kiehn@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-541 98
Fax: +43-1-4277-9 564
Additional information:
see also: http://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/sammlungen/botanischer_garten.html
Links:
Botanischer Garten der Universität Wien
Universität Wien
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Description:
In 1754 Archduchess (Empress) Maria Theresia of Austria founded a Pharmaceutical Garden in baroque style for the Medical Faculty of Vienna University. Already at its present location in Vienna's third district, this formed the basis for today's Botanical Garden attached to the Institute of Botany at the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
After several changes, the Botanical Garden now presents a synthesis between a 19th century landscape garden and a display of plants in systematic and plant-geographical arrangement. Several smaller areas in the garden are devoted to specific topics, such as useful plants, succulents, alpine floras, vegetation types of Austria, plant genetics and evolution etc.
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Further Reading:
Botanischer Garten der Universität Wien, in: Botanische Gärten Mitteleuropas. Geschichte, technische Einrichtungen, Anlagen, Sammlungen und Aufgaben. Ed. by Friedrich Ebel [et al.]. 2. enl. ed. Halle 1990 (Wiss. Beiträge der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg 1990/27 [P40]). p. 200-201.
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