The Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen is a historic

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and

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in the Schiffenberger Wald on Schiffenberger Weg,

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. It opens daily with free admission. The garden dates to 1778 when the

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

added a career in

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, making it the oldest department of this kind in the world. Its first forest garden was founded in 1802. In 1825, the forester official Karl von Gall created today's garden on an area of , which by 1830 contained "close to 400 varieties of forest plants"''Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung'', 1830, page 558, cited in Schwarz, page 13. including many foreign trees. The Hessian Forest College was founded in 1825, and merged into the University of Giessen in 1831. Carl Justus Heyer, who directed the garden from 1830–31 and 1835–1856, was also responsible for the

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. By 1877 the forest garden had been extended to and it was enlarged again in 1883. In 1938, the Forest Institute was relocated to the

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, and the Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen fell into disuse. Today it still contains more than 200 tree and shrub

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Lugena: Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen
* Klaus Schwarz, ''Der Akademische Forstgarten in Gießen: Ein forstgeschichtliches und forstbotanisches Lehrgebiet'', Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald, Gießen, 1988. . * Klaus Schwarz, "Der Akademische Forstgarten: Symbol der Gießener Forstwissenschaft", in ''400 Jähre Universität Gießen'', pages 206–211

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