Botanical Garden St. Gallen
The Botanical Garden St. Gallen is located in Stephanshornstrasse 4, Neudorf, St. Gallen. It features 8000 labeled plants from all over the world in its open-air displays and several greenhouses. The park and the greenhouses are accessible free of charge during opening hours. History 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