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Burgholz Arboretum

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North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Bergisches Land

Burgholz Arboretum

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Burgholz Arboretum

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View from the Burggrafenberg loop from Küllenhahn

9.18km

02:42

250m

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2. The Green Zoo Wuppertal – Arboretum Burgholz loop from Zoo/Stadion

19.0km

05:35

540m

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3. Samba-Trasse loop from Schwabhausen

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03:29

280m

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slueart

May 2, 2020

Originally primarily useful for building in nature, the arboretum is becoming an important experimental field in the stormy and hot-dry times of climate change. You can see the skeletons of dead spruces, which cannot survive this climate change, in the immediate vicinity of the exotic trees. The biodiversity of the arboretum can help with the current problems to discover more resistant tree species.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

November 23, 2020

"... The Burgholz Arboretum in the NRW Forest and Wood State Enterprise, with its area of around 250 hectares and around 100 different deciduous and coniferous tree species from almost every continent in the world, is the largest area in Germany for growing foreign tree species.
At the beginning of the 1970s it was run as an experimental cultivation area for foreign conifers by the state forestry administration, but from the end of the 1990s the aspect of the forestry teaching garden was brought to the fore and the forest areas of the foreign tree species have been referred to as an "arboretum" (arbor Latin = tree) since 1999. Burgholz now plays a leading role again in the association of forestry experimental areas in NRW. The oldest plantations are now around 55 years old.
Three short circular hiking trails - Trees of the World - give you impressions of individual tree species from North America, Asia and Europe.
A longer hiking trail - Forests of the World - gives you impressions of closed forest stands as somewhat exotic landscapes The individual tree species are presented along the hiking trails through a pictorial representation of the habitus and a distribution map. ..."
wuppertals-gruene-anlagen.de/naturerlebnisse/arboretum-burgholz

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slueart

April 14, 2020

Arboretum: (Wiki: An arboretum is a collection of different, often exotic, shrubs.) The forest is really something, because of the diverse exotic species it is really unique and offers a lot of variety. Hikers should also be prepared for some demanding vertical meters.

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Burgholz Arboretum

1. View from the Burggrafenberg loop from Küllenhahn

2. The Green Zoo Wuppertal – Arboretum Burgholz loop from Zoo/Stadion

3. Samba-Trasse loop from Schwabhausen

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