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Garden Attractions In Giessen

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Giessen, spelled Gießen in German , is a town in the German federal state of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 86,000, with roughly 24,000 university students. The name comes from Giezzen, as it was first referred to in 1197, which refers to the position of the town between several rivers, lakes and streams. The largest river in Giessen is the Lahn, which divides the town in two parts , roughly 50 kilometres north of Frankfurt am Main. In 1969, the town hosted the ninth Hessentag state festival.
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  • 1. Botanischer Garten Giessen Giessen
    The Botanischer Garten Gießen , more formally the Botanischer Garten der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, is a historic botanical garden maintained by the University of Giessen. It is the oldest botanical garden in Germany still at its original site, with an entrance at Senckenbergstraße 6, Gießen, Hesse, Germany. It is open daily without charge. The garden was founded in 1609 when Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, donated part of the palace garden to his newly established university for cultivation as a hortus medicus, following the earlier creation of such gardens at Leipzig , Heidelberg and Eichstätt . Physician and botanist Ludwig Jungermann laid out the garden over an area of 1200 m². The garden fell into decay during the Thirty Years' War , but in 1699 the construction o...
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