Arboretum Zürich
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Arboretum Zürich
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| Type | Urban park, Arboretum, Public bath |
| Location | Enge in Zürich, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 47°21′47″N 8°32′11″E / 47.36306°N 8.53639°ECoordinates: 47°21′47″N 8°32′11″E / 47.36306°N 8.53639°E |
| Area | 20 hectares (49 acres) |
| Created | 1886–1887 |
| Owned by | City of Zürich |
| Operated by | Grün Stadt Zürich |
| Status | Open all year |
The Arboretum is a botanical garden, public park and arboretum in the Swiss city of Zürich in Switzerland. The garden is part of the so-called Quaianlagen. The area also houses a lido, a public bath with a lake sauna, and the Voliere Zürich including the so-called Vogelpflegestation, being a unique sanatorium for birds.
Arboretum is situated in Zürich-Enge, as of today being a district of the city of Zürich, on Zürichsee lake shore being a part of the so-called Quaianlagen initiated by Arnold Bürkli. The park is separated by the General-Guisan-Quai and Mythenquai roads, from the lower lake shore promenade and the Enge harbour area.
Public transport is provided by the Zürich Tram route 5, as well by the VBZ bus lines 161 and 165 at the Rentenanstalt stop.
The Arboretum is an important part of the historical lake quays (German: Quaianlagen) which were inaugurated in 1887. The quays are an important milestone in the development of the modern city of Zürich, as by the construction of the new lake front, Zürich was transformed from the medieval small town on the Limmat and Sihl rivers to an attractive modern city on the Zürichsee lake shore.
The Arboretum was created according to the then-current style of a public garden. Originally, it was intended as a cultivated and richly equipped, but otherwise conventional parkland. Shortly before the construction work started, a group of botany and geology professors made proposals to enrich the park concept, in due consideration of scientific aspects. A tree collection with exotic plants, a rock collection, and an Alpine panorama accounting the Glarus Alps view from the park should provide to the citizens a piece of education on a Sunday stroll. The affiliated formed Arboretum Kommission comprised also the landscape architects Evariste Mertens and Otto Froebel and the botany Professor Carl Schröter, whou managed to communicate science and beauty in the new park. In 1886 the work for the design of the plant started, and Otto Froebel teamed up with his professional colleagues Evariste Mertens. Cleverly, they modeled the fresh lake level terrain wrested from and the park in the style of the late garden laid, and succeeded in the picturesque grouping of trees. The scientific concept is rounded off by a rock collection, as well as the first alpine panorama of Zürich. The trees of the so-called China-group on the lake shore hide three one-man bunkers, which were built in 1942 to 'protect' the lower lake basin; since 1992, the bunkers are under cantonal conservation. The Arboretum is obtained largely in its original composition, but in the 1980s it became an urgent task to continue the original scientific concept in the replanting, however, larger groups of trees had to be replaced and new planted trees had to be integrated in the existing planting concept. The basis for the development of the park maintenance according to the original concept was introduced in 1985.
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