The New Botanical Garden of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität extends for eight hectares. It offers a comprehensive insight into the fascinating world of plants to academics, students and the public alike. Plants from all climate zones of the world bloom in the open air and the largest greenhouse building open to the public in Schleswig-Holstein. On a walk through a North American wood and past Mediterranean vegetation sections, heath, dunes, an alder fold, and an alpine rock garden the visitor reaches a Chinese coppice. He can stop at information boards along the walk. Cacti and succulents grow; orchids blossom and tropical flowers smell in the greenhouses. Visitors can discover where pepper grows and see how coffee, cacao or tea look like.
The garden, which is structured ecologically and geographically, also regularly offers changing exhibitions.
Every year on the 1st Sunday of June there is an open day. In the summer changing art exhibitions. Detailed information on many plant species.

The admission is free except for great exhibitions. There is charge of DM 3,- per person for guided tours with at least 10 persons attending. Tours on many special topics or distinctive sections of the garden. Please call +49 (0)431-880 4276.

Regular tours

Guided tours by special appointment (see above), On every 1st Sunday of a month public guided tours, from November till March public lectures on botanical topics, The "Freundeskreis Neuer Botanischer Garten" (Friends of the New Botanical Garden) offers interesting excursions and lectures

Printed guide brochures, "Grüne Hefte aus dem Botanischen Garten" (green brochures from the botanical garden) on special subjects (useful plants, cacti and succulents, ecology of flowers, ecology of spreading, Solana, apothecaries’ garden, systematology, adhesives and binders got from plants, ecological fertilization, growth forms of plants growing from seeds, pot plants)
"Gelbe Hefte" (yellow brochures) for children (also for colouring), Post cards, Information boards

Contacts to the friends of the new botanical garden: Freundeskreis Neuer Botanischer Garten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität. c/o Botanischer Garten, Universität Kiel, Biologiezentrum, 24098 KielSince its opening in 1985 the New Botanical Garden of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität has developed into an important place of systematical and ecological research. But it also offers a place of leisure and of delight at the flowers to all inhabitants or visitors of Kiel. After four predecessors on different sites in Kiel, it is now the largest botanical garden the town ever had. Additionally, it is the only scientific botanical garden in Schleswig-Holstein.

Arriving by car

Travel by public busses to the bus stop “Botanischer Garten”, there are also parking facilities for private busses, parking facilities for cars in “Ohlshausenstraße” (then walk along Leibnizstraße up to the end) and at the weekends directly on Leibnizstraße in front of the Institute of Biology

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of the type: Garden/Nature Trail

of the region: Stadt Kiel

in: Kiel