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

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