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 Klein Flottbek (Botanischer Garten) railway station is on the Altona-Blankenese line and serviced by the Hamburg city trains. Rapid transit trains of line S1 of the Hamburg S-Bahn call at the station in the Klein Flottbek subdistrict in the Nie ...

in the Osdorf quarter, and open daily without charge. It was renamed in 2012 after Loki Schmidt, 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 The Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg (''Old Botanical Garden Hamburg''), sometimes also known as the Schaugewächshaus or the Tropengewächshäuser, is a botanical garden now consisting primarily of greenhouses in the Planten un Blomen park of Ham ...

, 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 The Jenisch Park is the oldest landscaped park in Hamburg, Germany, located in the Othmarschen quarter at the Geest shore of River Elbe. Of the area of 43 ha (110 acres), 8 are a protected. Two museums, Jenisch House and Ernst Barlach House, are l ...

nowadays.

Layout

The garden is organized into three major sections: * Systematic garden (approximately ) - 90 beds of plants organized by evolutionary relationship, as defined by

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in 1959. * Geographical garden - plants arranged by geographic origin, with areas for

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, southern

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, and

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. This section also includes an

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, and

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

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garden, and

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plants.

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Botanischer Garten Hamburg 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 botanical garden maintained by the University of Hambur ...

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