Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen

The garden dates to 1778 when the University of Giessen added a career in forestry, making it the oldest department of this kind in the world.

In 1825, the forester official Karl von Gall created today's garden on an area of 0.5 hectares (1.2 acres), which by 1830 contained "close to 400 varieties of forest plants"[1] including many foreign trees.

Carl Justus Heyer, who directed the garden from 1830–31 and 1835–1856, was also responsible for the Botanischer Garten Gießen.

In 1938, the Forest Institute was relocated to the University of Göttingen, and the Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen fell into disuse.

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