The Loki-Schmidt-Garten, also known as Botanischer Garten Hamburg, or, more formally, as Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg or Biozentrum Klein Flottbek und Botanischer Garten, is a

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maintained by the

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. It has a size of around 25 hectares and is located at Ohnhorststrasse 18,

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, beside the Klein Flottbek station in the Osdorf quarter, and open daily without charge. It was renamed in 2012 after

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, the wife of the former German chancellor

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. Though it was renamed, the old name coexists with the new one. Nearby Klein Flottbek station still has the second name "Botanischer Garten".Hamburg.de - Branchenbuch
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History

Although the garden's institutional history dates to its first establishment in 1821 and transfer in 1919 to the University of Hamburg, today's Loki-Schmidt-Garten, then Botanischer Garten Hamburg, opened in 1979. Its earlier site still remains as the Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg, which contains the garden's greenhouses. Therefore, Loki-Schmidt-Garten is sometimes called Neuer Botanischer Garten (''New Botanical Garden''). The compound of today's Botanischer Garten had initially been one of the four sections of the ''ornamented farm'' of Caspar Voght, then as ''Norderpark'' (''Northern park''). ''Süderpark'' (''Southern park'') is known as Jenisch park nowadays.

Layout

The garden is organized into three major sections: * Systematic garden (approximately ) - 90 beds of plants organized by evolutionary relationship, as defined by Armen Takhtajan in 1959. * Geographical garden - plants arranged by geographic origin, with areas for

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, North America, southern

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, and

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. This section also includes an

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Japanese garden are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden desi ...

, and Chinese garden. * Plant and man - five thematic gardens: Farmer's Garden, Biblical Garden,

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s, pharmacy garden, and poisonous and

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plants.

References

External links

Loki-Schmidt-Garten
in German
Biozentrum Klein Flottbek
in German
Gesellschaft der Freunde des Botanischen Gartens Hamburg
(''Society of Friends of the Botanical Garden''), in German
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum entry

BGCI entry

Wikimapia entry
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