[2] The Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław is located on the north side of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and the Church of the Holy Cross, partly within the historic Ostrów Tumski, approx.

[3] The garden initially occupied approximately 5 ha; its founders filled the role of directors in the years 1811–1816: systematist, anatomist and plant physiologist prof. Heinrich Friedrich Link and professor of natural history and agriculture Franz Heyde[a].

His successor in the years 1830–1852 was the plant systematist Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, who was removed from his post for political reasons due to his activity during the Spring of Nations (1848–1849).

[5] After Göpper, the Garden was led by Adolf Engler (until 1889), Karl Prantl (until 1893), Ferdinand Pax (until 1926), Peter Stark (until 1928), and Johannes Buder (botanist) [de] (until 1945).

[5] In 1945, during the siege of Festung Breslau by the Red Army, the collection of greenhouse plants and half of the garden's tree stand were completely destroyed.

In the garden, the Germans set up anti-aircraft artillery positions, took air drops of supplies there and built numerous shelters with ammunition.

In 1960, another hectare of land was added to the Garden, from the side of the Holy Cross Street, where in 1967 a special pool for aquatic plants – water lilies – was built according to the design of architect Tadeusz Zipser.

[9] The alpine garden displays a geological cross-section of the Wałbrzych hard coal deposits separated by sandstone and slate sediments, built in 1856.