page_title: Botanic Garden of Casimir the Great University, Bydgoszcz
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Botanic Garden of Casimir the Great University, Bydgoszcz / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Sundial Botanic garden
context_page_description: The Botanic Garden of Casimir the Great University is located in the center of Bydgoszcz, close to the main campus of the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. The facility fulfils several roles: scientific research, but also didactic and recreational activities.
context_section_description: The Arboretum was established in 1930 on the site of a former school garden called Botanik, smaller in size than today (0.71 ha). It was part of a city botanic garden ensemble, managed by engineer Marian Güntzel.
  During World War II, this facility was partially devastated by the necessary earthworks related to the defense of the city. After the war, municipal authorities decided to restore the site to its original appearance. As such, on January 26, 1946, City Board of Bydgoszcz passed a resolution to grant the Botanic Garden with the status of research institution, with a separate organizational structure. The area was increased to 2.5 hectares, and a villa was assigned to the management of the arboretum, together with commercial buildings, both adjacent to Niemcewicza street. Originally, a Museum of Natural History and Natural Sciences was planned to be established in these buildings.
  Between 1946–1951, technical installations were set up, a small greenhouse and a farm house were built and the garden gradually replenished with new species of trees and bushes, native and foreign. In 1946, the city botanic garden was officially opened, with Andrzej Michalski as first director.
  In 1951, the garden was handed over to the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (Polish: Instytutowi Hodowli i Aklimatyzacji Roślin, IHAR) which ran it until 1979. IHAR facility is still present today at Powstańców Wielkopolskich Street 10. Since 1971, the arboretum has been part of the Polish Central Plant Collection.
  Nonetheless, garden's main task has always been popularization of the diversity of the world of plants, both native and foreign, towards visitors, by giving the opportunity to face "in the flesh" the multiplicity of plants in an urban environment. Botanik has been covering -since its re-creation in 1951- various fields of biology, plant morphology, plant pathology, dendrology. In the 1970s, the garden had gathered 300 species of plants, and published annually a Seed Catalog, exchanging grains with other botanic gardens in Poland and abroad.
  In 1977, decision was made to create a larger Botanic Garden in Bydgoszcz in the north-eastern part of the Forest Park of Culture and Leisure (Polish: Leśny Park Kultury i Wypoczynku, Myślęcinek), downgrading the old Botanik to an urban public park.
  In 1995, with the help of Voivodeship Nature Conservator, Engineer Marek Wilcz, the park was granted the status of Comprehensive Natural Monument, as an arboretum. In 1999, the botanic garden, comprising about 220 species of trees and shrubs, was handed over to the UKW and became a didactic and scientific laboratory of the Department of Botany of the Institute of Biology and Environmental Protection of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Since then, a gradual revitalization of the garden has begun:
  In 2002, the pond was modernized and a number of small architectural elements have been established (Rose garden, rural garden with an insect habitat and a cactus garden);
  Since 2006, UKW runs the area in accordance with the Nature Conservation Act. The Botanic garden is now a member of the Polish Botanic Gardens Council;
  Since 2010, in the building of the former garden library, an Arboretum Gallery has been set up, presenting art pieces and pictures.
  The manager of the Arboretum since 1999 is Barbara Wilbrandt.
  The revitalization project of the arboretum was included in the Bydgoszcz Development Program 2009-2014. It encompassed the renovation and reconstruction of the technical infrastructure (i.e. greenhouses, pergolas, sundials, sculptures, walls, gates fences, water and alpine plants and others) and the revitalization of the botanical area (e.g. reconstruction of stands, creation of a parterres for endangered and protected plants).
caption: Sundial
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