Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry

The Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry (German: Königliche-Sächsische Forstakademie) in Tharandt, Saxony, near Dresden, was founded by silviculturist Heinrich Cotta in 1811.

Established in conjunction with the school, and later integrated with it, was the Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt, one of the oldest arboreta in the world.

Its legacy lives on today as a campus of the Dresden University of Technology and site of that institution's Department of Forestry.

By the time of German reunification in 1990, the College of Forestry (Forstliche Hochschule) had already been integrated into the Dresden University of Technology (DUT).

[2] The school lives on today as a campus of the Dresden University of Technology, and site of its Department of Forestry, which continues to train foresters.