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Arboretum in the Outer Cologne Green Belt

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Arboretum in the Outer Cologne Green Belt

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  • Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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    March 24, 2020

    Cycling

    This area was created in the 1960s according to plans by Kurt Schönbohm, the then head of the garden department. Schönbohm took up the idea of an arboretum and planted a large number of foreign and rare tree species.
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    February 10, 2022

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    I can't resist and I have to quote the incomparable humorist Heinz Erhardt (1909 - 1979), who was known to a wide audience for his wit and "Noch'n poem", with a short quatrain:
    "Trees, trees, nothing but trees,
    and in between - spaces.
    But behind it, you can hardly believe it:
    Another tree!"
    (H.Erhardt)
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    October 30, 2024

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    Many rare trees were planted here in the early 1950s and again in the early 1960s. Then the site was forgotten and the word arboretum disappeared from the city map. …
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    Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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