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Welcome to Hohenheim Welcome History Castle Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Welcome to Hohenheim Hohenheim combines the historical and the modern in an ideal form. The grounds around the castle are not just tourist sights. With the university, they are also home to a lively and world-famous academic institution, Welcome one we shall tell you more about later. History Castle But now first to our tour of Gardens Museums Hohenheim. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Kavaliershäuser / Cavaliers‘ QuartersKavaliershäuser Kavaliershäuser Kavaliershäuser elegant restaurant SpeisemeistereiSpeisemeisterei Bereichsbibliothek Zoologisches und Castle of Hohenheim Landwirtschaftsmuseum tiermedizinisches Schloss Museum German Agricultural Museum Jägerallee Spielhaus Jägerallee Franziska- The economics and social Wirtshaus zur Stadt Rom/ sciences library theDenkmalRoman Inn WirtshausSpielhaus/ zur Stadt Playhouse Rom Museum for Botanical Garden ZoologyBotanischerand Garten veterinary SäulenMonument des donnernden Franziska Jupiters Medicine of Hohenheim Tour Columns of thundering Jupiter Hohenheim Castle Hohenheim Castle Thewas 500-m-long built by Duke castle Carl grounds, with threeEugene inner of Württembergand two outera courtyards,nd Countessare the largest Francisca of their of kindHohenheim east of thein 1785.Rhine. Building began in 1772 with the working quarters. When Carl Eugene Welcome died in 1793, the interior construction History Castle was still incomplete. Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour The economics and business library Welcome History Castle Students study and read within the Gardens walls which were meant to house Museums University Duke Carl Eugene’s study. Teaching and research Facilities Tour Gardens and parks Welcome History Castle Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour The English garden: the ”little village” Hohenheim’s English garden, called the ”little village” by Francisca, once contained more than 60 buildings and monuments. The reconstructed ruins of ancient Rome were intended to be the stage for the ”triumph of virtuous Welcome country life over the moral decline of History Castle the fallen Rome”. Only a few buildings Gardens Museums remain of the former ”little village”. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour The columns of thundering Jupiter The columns of thundering Jupiter were built as copies of the temple ruins on the forum romanum. They were once one of the buildings that were standing in the so-called ”little village”. Today only a few of the Welcome eastern columns remain standing. The History Castle two others lie in ruins on the ground Gardens Museums and are said to have inspired Ludwig University Uhland’s ballad ”The Singer’s Curse”. Teaching and research Facilities Tour The Roman Inn The Roman Inn is one of the oldest buildings in the gardens. It was built as early as 1776. Here Eduard Mörike around 1830 completed his novel ”Painter Nolte”, parts of which are reminiscent of the ”little village”. Welcome Today the rooms are used by the History Castle horticultural school. Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Playhouse The playhouse (Spielhaus) provided Duke Carl Eugene and Francisca of Hohenheim with entertainment on rainy days before the castle was completed. Today the playhouse houses the Hohenheim History Welcome Museum. It also contains a model of History Castle the park grounds in the 18th century. Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Museum for Zoology and Veterinary Medicine The museum developed out of a forestry and agricultural collection from the 19th century and from collections of the Stuttgart Veterinary College. Its exhibits include historical veterinary instruments, a horseshoe Welcome History collection and the wood library from Castle the 18th century. Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour German Agricultural Museum of Hohenheim The exhibition shows the history of soil cultivation, the development of plant production, the mechanisation of the crop harvest and the motorisation of agriculture. This is complemented by temporary Welcome exhibitions and a unique collection of History Castle around 1000 exhibits of historical Gardens Museums models of ploughing equipment and University agricultural machinery. Teaching and research Facilities Tour The Cavaliers’ Quarters The Cavaliers’ Quarters are located in a former street used by the military before the castle was built. The guards legion of Duke Carl Eugene had their quarters there. Today only three of the four western houses are Welcome of historical interest. The fourth was History Castle rebuilt. The eastern houses were Gardens Museums redesigned in 1989. Today the University buildings are used by the university. Teaching and research Facilities Tour Refectory The refectory wing was built as early as 1773. It served as living quarters for Duke Carl Eugene and his later wife Francisca of Hohenheim. In the 19th century the ground floor was rebuilt into a college canteen and inn, Welcome and the wing was given the name of History Castle refectory. Today an elegant restaurant Gardens Museums is located in the impressive rooms. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour The beginnings of the university In 1818 King William I of Württemberg established an agricultural research and teaching institute in the empty Hohenheim castle on the initiative of his wife Katherine. The aim was to be better safeguarded against famine. In Welcome 1904 the academy was made into an History Castle agricultural college and in 1967 into Gardens Museums the University of Hohenheim. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour The women of Hohenheim Franziska von HohenheimMargarete von WrangellKönigin Katharina TheWomen castle were and first university allowed exist to study thanks in toHohenheim two women.in And1910. in other ways too, Hohenheim was a pioneer in women’s issues. In 1923 Margarete von Wrangell was made Germany’s first female full professor. She thus paved Welcome the way for women into academia at a History Castle time when study was mainly seen as a Gardens Museums male domain. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour The university today The University of Hohenheim is the oldest university in Stuttgart. Growing out of scientific, agricultural and economic traditions, it has developed a modern spectrum of subjects. On the campus around the 200-year-old Welcome castle, around 6000 students study at History Castle an internationally oriented university Gardens Museums with a strong research focus. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Study-Programmes at Hohenheim Agricultural Sciences Agricultural Biology Agribusiness Envirofood Tropical Agriculture Welcome History Castle Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Study-Programmes at Hohenheim Welcome History Castle Gardens Museums University Nutrition Science Teaching and research Facilities Tour Study-Programmes at Hohenheim Welcome History Castle Gardens Museums University Food Technology Teaching and research Facilities Tour Study-Programmes at Hohenheim Welcome History Castle Biology (diploma and Gardens secondary school Museums University teaching qualification) Teaching and research Facilities Tour Study-Programmes at Hohenheim Agricultural Economics Welcome History Social Economics Castle Business Pedagogics Gardens Museums Information Systems University Teaching and research Economics and Business Administration Facilities Tour Study-Programmes at Hohenheim Welcome History Castle Gardens Communication Science Museums University Journalism Teaching and research Facilities Tour Research stations Hohenheim has five research stations. They are research labs and teaching institutes of the university. The research stations deal with the cultivation and protection of plants, plant breeding, horticulture, animal Welcome biology and ecological farming, as History Castle well as animal husbandry, and the Gardens Museums breeding of livestock and small University animals. Teaching and research Facilities Tour Conducting research throughout the world The Tropical Centre deals with the question of how the growing world population can be fed in the future. Whereas the focus of research previously lay on the African continent, Hohenheim has now Welcome become the centre for a further History Castle research focus, the mountain regions Gardens Museums of Asia. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Conducting research throughout the world The activities of the Eastern Europe Centre range from training to the strategic planning of reform projects in Central and Eastern Europe at the interface of science, politics and economics. In addition, the University Welcome of Hohenheim is responsible for the History Castle entire language assistant program of Gardens Museums the Robert Bosch Foundation. University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Research and practice work hand in hand For around 100 years the state insti- tutions associated with the university have been fulfilling important func- tions in practically oriented research and in linking academia and practice. The institutions include the State Welcome Institute for Agricultural Chemistry, History Castle for Agricultural Machinery and Gardens Museums Engineering, for Apiculture and the University State Institute for Seed Cultivation. Teaching and research Facilities Tour Research and practice work hand in hand The Innovation und Bildung Hohenheim GmbH (IBH) acts as a mediator between the university and business. It supports young academics on their way to independence, offers tailor-made Willkommen training programmes for specialists Geschichte Forschung u. Lehre and managers, and organises Einrichtungen Internationales cooperation between business and Schloss research. Gärten Museen Tour We wish you ... ... a pleasant stay in Hohenheim! Visit us online at www.uni-hohenheim.de Welcome History Castle Gardens Museums University Teaching and research Facilities Tour Willkommen Geschichte Rundgang Gärten Forschung u. Lehre Einrichtungen Freizeit Veranstaltungen Tour.