page_title: Botanical Garden St. Gallen
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Botanical Garden St. Gallen / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Neudorf, Botanischer Garten, Stadtgärtnerei. Blick vom Turm der Kirche St.Maria Neudorf gegen Norden
context_page_description: The Botanical Garden St. Gallen is in the Stephanshornstrasse 4 in the suburb Neudorf of St. Gallen. It shows 8000 labeled plants from all over the world in the open-air displays and several greenhouses. The park and the greenhouses are accessible free of charge during opening hours.
context_section_description: The first botanical garden in St. Gallen was established in 1878 in the municipal park east of the newly built Museum of Nature. The museum's director was the botanist and plant collector Friedrich Bernhard Wartmann, who desired to complement the exhibits of the museum with a living plant collection. He created the 6000 m² (1.5 acres) garden (which also included an alpine garden) with his friend Theodor Schlatter (1847–1918), a botanist and teacher. The largest part of this display garden was demolished in 1918, to make space for the new Museum of History and Ethnology.
  The second botanical garden was built near the University of Teacher Education St. Gallen. It was demolished in 1934 due to construction work.
  The ground-breaking ceremony occurred by turning the first sod on 16 June 1945 in the Stephanshorn area of Neudorf, where the municipal nursery had been for decades. Initially, several school classes from St. Gallen and their biology teachers were involved in creating the garden, including the Head of the Gardening Office Paul Zülli. Subsequently, the expansion was managed and conducted mainly by the City of St. Gallen, who owned the park. In 1993, an architecturally noteworthy alpine house was built in the Botanical Garden. The new tropical house was built in 1998 and expanded in 2007 by erecting the orchid house. The open-air area was substantially refurbished in 2011.
caption: The area of today's botanical garden in 1919 with the municipal nursery and the building of 1914, which is now used as an orangery
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