University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden
| University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden | |
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The Palm House from 1874
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| Type | Botanic Garden |
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Coordinates | 55°41′13″N 12°34′26″E / 55.68694°N 12.57389°ECoordinates: 55°41′13″N 12°34′26″E / 55.68694°N 12.57389°E |
| Area | 10 hectares |
| Created | 1600 (founded) 1870 (current location) |
| Operated by | University of Copenhagen |
| Status | Open all year |
| Species | 13,000+ |
| Website | http://botanik.snm.ku.dk/ |
The University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden (Danish: Botanisk have), usually referred to simply as Copenhagen Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden located in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers an area of 10 hectares and is particularly noted for its extensive complex of historical glasshouses dating from 1874.
The garden is part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, which is itself part of the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science. It serves both research, educational and recreational purposes.
The botanical garden was first established in 1600 but it was moved twice before it was ultimately given its current location in 1870. It was probably founded to secure a collection of Danish medicinal plants after the Reformation had seen many convents and their gardens abandoned or demolished.
The first garden, known as Hortus Medicus, was created on 2 August 1600 by royal charter on a piece of land donated by the king, Christian IV. It was located in Skidenstræde (present-day Krystalgade) and a residence for one of the professors of the university was also built at the site. It rested upon the professor in residence to maintain the garden, irrespective of which chair he held. In 1621 Ole Worm personally took over the responsibility for the garden and he enriched it with a great number of Danish medicinal plants as well as rare foreign species he received from his many professional contacts abroad.
A second botanical garden was laid out by Georg Christian Oeder in 1752 in the newly founded Frederiksstaden district at the request of Frederik V at a site bisected by Amaliegade just north of Frederik's Hospital. The smaller western section, covering just under half a hectare, was equipped with a greenhouse while the eastern section remained largely unplanted. The garden was opened to the public in 1763.
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