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Botanischer Garten und Alpengarten Patscherkofel

Tropical Greenhouses

Main Address:
Botanischer Garten und Alpengarten Patscherkofel
Botanical Gardens of the University of Innsbruck
Sternwartestrasse 15
Innsbruck
Tyrol 6020 Austria
Telephone Number: 43 (0)512 507 5910
Fax Number: 43 (0)512 507 96952
Web Site: bot-garden.uibk.ac.at
Institution Email Address: Botanischer-Garten@uibk.ac.at

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• Staff Details
  • Director: Peter Daniel Schlorhaufer, Head
    Curator:
    Plant Records Officer:
    
  • Total Staff:
    Number of Horticultural Staff: 7
    Number of Educational Staff: 2
    Number of Research Staff: 1
    Number of Administration Staff: 1
• About this Garden
  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Private: No
    State: No
    Educational Establishment: Yes
    Municipal: No
    Satellite Garden: Yes
    Trust Administered: No
    
  • Date Founded: 1909
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area (inside BG): No
    
  • Landscaped Area: Yes
    
  • Total Area (in Hectares): 2 hectares
    Latitude: 47.2500
    Longitude: 11.5000
    Annual Rainfall: 860 mm
    Altitude: 600.00 metres
    Total Area Under Glass: 1200 metres
    Total Area Under Shade: 1200 metres
    
  • Additional Locations
  • Satellite Garden Names (including exteral arboreta): Alpine Garden on Mount Patscherkofel
    On Mt.Patscherkofel, the mountain arising direct in the south of the city of Innsbruck, the Alpine Garden of the University of Innsbruck was reopened to the public in the autumn of 1994. This Alpine Garden is the highest located Botanical Garden in Austria and was founded in 1930 by the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck. A new, modern research station within the garden enables Botanists all year round to carry out their studies directly in the field. The 1 hectare (= 2.470 acres) large garden is situated at 2000m above sea near the top station of the Patscherkofel cable car and therefore fast and easily reached. The garden is fenced since 1930 and a lot of plants could maintain here, which were otherwise superseded by the lot of grazing cattle. The favorable position of the garden, situated within the timberline, enables us to show different plant communities naturally occurring here. A new trail leading through the steep area allows the visitors a close view to the communities such as timberline forests, elfin wood/ Krummholz, tall alpine herbfield or alpine tundra associations. Only the understanding of the sensitive balance can help to save this endangered communities. In addition we also want to show plants from other alpine regions of the world.
  • Local Information
  • Garden Name: Botanischer Garten und Alpengarten Patscherkofel
  • Address: Sternwartestrasse 15 A-6020 Innsbruck Oesterreich
  • City: Innsbruck/Hoetting
  • State: Tirol
• Features and Facilities
  • Herbarium: No
    Arboretum: Yes
    Arboretum Size: 1
    
  • Micropropagation/Tissue Culture Facilities: No
    Seed Bank: No
    Published Plant Catalogue: No
    Computer Plant Record System: Yes
    
  • Open to the Public: Yes
    Society of Friends: Yes
    Retail Outlet (shop): No
    Retail Outlet (plant sales): No
    Disabled Access: Yes
    
  • Number of Visitors: 10000
    
• Plant Collections
  • Number of Living Plant Accessions: 6000
    Number of Taxa in Cultivation: 8000
    
  • Special Collections:Mediterranean and subtropical plants, geographical and geological divided Alpinum,Alpine House, systematical area, succulents, tropical/subtropical greenhouses, medical plants collection.
• Conservation Programmes
  • Conservation Programme: No
    Medicinal Plant Programme: No
    Ex Situ Conservation Programme: No
    Reintroduction Programme: No
    
• Research Programmes
  • Biotechnology: No
    Plant Breeding: Yes
    Conservation - Biology: No
    Conservation - Genetics: No
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: No
    Ecology: No
    Ecosystem Conservation: No
    Education: Yes
    Ethnobotany: No
    Exploration: No
    Floristics: Yes
    Horticulture: Yes
    Invasive Species Biology and Control: No
    Molecular Genetics: No
    Pollination Biology: No
    Restoration Ecology: No
    Seed/Spore Biology: No
    Sustainability: No
    Pharmacology: No
    Agriculture: No
    Land Restoration: No
    Urban Environments: No
    
• Education Programmes
  • Visitor/Education Centre: Yes
    Education Signs in Garden: Yes
    Public Lectures/Talks: Yes
    Education Booklets/Leaflets: Yes
    Guided Tours: Yes
    Permanent Public Displays: Yes
    Special Exhibitions: Yes
    Courses for School Children: Yes
    Courses for University/College Students: Yes
    Courses for General Public: Yes
    Education Programme: Yes