Botanischer Garten Schellerhau

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The Botanischer Garten Schellerhau is a botanical garden located near the hamlet of Schellerhau in Altenberg, Saxony, Germany. The garden was established in 1906 by Gustav Adolf Poscharsky, inspector of the Royal Botanical Garden of Dresden, as his private garden. As he subsequently wrote, "As far as I know it was the first attempt with such a garden in the Ore Mountains.

I chose the plateau of Schellerhau at 750 m elevation." There he planted species from the mountains of Asia, North America and the Caucasus, and by 1908 was growing 93 trees, including 19 apple varieties, 9 pears, 7 plums, 2 rose varieties, many shrubs, and 401 herbaceous species. In 1916 the garden was transferred to the Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt in what was to become a complex tangle of ownerships that persists to this day, and in 1920 became associated with the Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden as an alpine garden. In 1928 it was enlarged by two additional purchases of 2,240 m2 and 800 m2, and subsequently began to focus upon the flora of the Ore Mountains, but fell into disuse during World War II.

By the end of the war, of the 1026 plants species recorded in the 1930s, only 33 trees...