History
In the year 1573, during the time of elector Johann Georg, the first considerable plant assemblage for the enlargement of the domestic stand occurred, because of the farm gardener Desiderius Corbianus at the fruits- and kitchen garden of the Berlin City Palace. Even if that word has not existed at that time, it was that the first „Botanic Garden“ in Berlin. The still existing pleasure garden has developed from it.
In 1679 at the Potsdamer Street – in place of the present Heinrich-von-Kleist- park – a hop garden was laid out, which was used, as a purpose of the electoral brewery, as a fruits- and kitchen garden. Carl Ludwig Willdenow has reached, that the garden was assigned in 1809 the Berlin University, which developed worldwide to a recognized „Botanic Garden“ with a scientific character.
First stimuli to move the Botanic Garden appeared in 1888, given because of the need, to expand the plantings and to set out an arboretum. Besides many of the old greenhouses would have needed a reconstruction. Added to the unfavourable impacts of the surroundings, which was in the meantime densely developed because of the cities Berlin and Schoeneberg; air pollution and a drawdown harmed the plants. Also the financial aspects of a move to the city center were of importance.
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