The Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen is a
botanical garden specializing in
tropical crops, maintained by the
University of Kassel. It is located in
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es at Steinstraße 19,
Witzenhausen,
Hesse,
Germany, and open several afternoons per week.
The greenhouses were first established in 1902 to support the colonial School of Agriculture, Trade and Industry (founded 1898), and then consisted of a central
palm house with adjacent tropical and cold houses. These houses were replaced in 1937 with larger facilities which were extensively damaged in
World War II. Postwar reconstruction was slow and the greenhouses did not resume operation until 1957 under the auspices of the ''Deutschen Instituts für Tropische und Subtropische Landwirtschaft GmbH'' (DITSL). A modern greenhouse of was built in 1965, with many improvements in 1971. Seminar rooms totaling and a research area of were added in 1987 and 1995 respectively.
Today the greenhouses proper are divided into five areas: a high
palm house of as well as a
coffee house,
cocoa
Cocoa may refer to:
Chocolate
* Chocolate
* ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree
* Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao''
* Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and ...
house, field cultures room, and
orangery, each with a floor area of and high.
See also
*
List of botanical gardens in Germany
References
* ''Das Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen, Führer für Besucher'', Witzenhausen : Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen, 1997–98, 2nd edition.
* Wolff, P.; Hethke, M.; Hammer, K.: "100 Jahre Gewächshäuser für tropische Nutzpflanzen - von der kolonialen Pflanzensammlung zur Forschungs- und Bildungseinrichtung", in ''Der Tropenlandwirt'', Tropenlandwirte Witzenhausen e.V., Kassel, 2002.
External links
Gewächshaus für tropische NutzpflanzenHermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum entry
Botanical gardens in Germany
Gardens in Hesse
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