Old Botanical Garden, Zurich

Old Botanical Garden, Zurich

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Old Botanical Garden, Zurich

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Location: Zurich, Switzerland

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January 23, 2025

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When it no longer seemed necessary to defend the city militarily, the bulwark was slowly dismantled from 1835 onwards. The former defensive structure was promptly given another use: it became a green garden. The doctor and naturalist Johannes Gessner created a botanical garden in collaboration with the "Natural Research Society of Zurich", founded in 1746.

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July 27, 2022

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The scientist Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) cultivated his own garden in Zurich. His garden fulfilled various functions: the production of medicinal herbs, the study of foreign species, as a vegetable garden and as an ornamental garden. In the Gessner garden, the plants that he assigned to the various functions are shown in separate beds.

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November 5, 2020

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The old botanical garden, which has existed since 1833, is located at the former “zur Katz” bulwark (Quartier City, Kreis 1). In 1977 a new facility was opened on Zollikerstrasse (Quartier Weinegg, District 8) with the Institute for Systematic Botany of the University of Zurich.

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