Botanischer Garten Marburg


The Botanischer Garten Marburg, 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:
In addition, the garden's greenhouses cover total area of 1,700 square meters as follows: tropical house ; Canary Islands house ; tropical crop house with plants including Ananas comosus and Coffea arabica; Amazon house containing aquatic plants of the Amazon region including Bruguiera sexangula and Victoria amazonica; tropical fern house ; succulent house ; Australian outback house ; and carnivorous plant house.