Alter Botanischer Garten Marburg

Marburg's first botanical garden was established between 1527 and 1533 when the humanist, poet, physician and botanist Euricius Cordus, considered a founder of scientific botany in Germany, is known to have set up a private botanical garden of which designs little is known today.

In 1786 a second garden attempt was created by Professor Conrad Moench near the Elisabeth Church (Marburg).

In 1861 Albert Wigand transformed the garden to conform with the school of Peter Joseph Lenné and Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer, creating sections especially for trees.

Although still owned by the university, it is now used mainly as a public park containing a fine arboretum of mature trees that are over 200 years old, including specimens Quercus petraea, Platanus × hispanica, Salix alba, Liriodendron tulipifera, and many conifers.

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