I visited a botanical garden in Erlangen - and had fun with frogs

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. Together with Nuremberg, Fürth, and Schwabach, Erlangen forms one of the three metropolises in Bavaria. With the surrounding area, these cities form the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, one of 11 metropolitan areas in Germany.

 An element of the city that goes back a long way in history, but is still noticeable, is the settlement of Huguenots after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Please feel free and visit my 2nd post about the Huguenots in Franconia. 

Today, many aspects of daily life in the city are dominated by the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Siemens technology group.  

 The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität) was founded in 1742 by Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, in the city of Bayreuth, but was relocated to Erlangen the next year. Today, it features five faculties; some departments (Economics and Education) are located in Nuremberg. About 39,000 students study at this university, of which about 20,000 are located in Erlangen. The students allow Erlangen to be a young and cute city. 

 So let's enter the garden:

The history of the Erlangen Botanical Garden goes back to 1626 in the broadest sense, when a medical-academic garden was established in Altdorf for the newly founded University of Nuremberg. This ‘Hortus Medicus’ in Altdorf was the seventh such university garden in Germany. After its dissolution, some plants from there were transferred to Erlangen.

Just a few years after the establishment of today's Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen (1743), a botanical garden was created here in 1747 in front of the Nuremberg Gate in the southern part of the old town, which no longer exists today.

 

Mushroom on dead wood 

 

Pelophylax kl. esculentus - a small green frog with an impressive sound

Sarracenia purpurea

 

Digitalis purpurea 'Alba'

 

Limonium perezii

 

Basalt pillars (like the Giant Causeway, Ireland)

An outdoor florarium

Greenovia dodrentalis

 

A Nymphea

A Koi

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

 

Dendrobium macrophyllum

 

Caryota urens

Thunbergia mysorensis 

 

Don't be afraid :-)

Bromelia balansae (Argentina, Paraguay)

Giant Oxalis tetraphylla

 

The lotus effect of water  

 

make some noiiiiise

a giant Fuchsia (maybe "Nancy Lou")

Oh my :-)))

A stork cleans up its nest

Completed 25th-27th May 2025 (Meeting at Walsrode)

 I spent the weekend in Walsrode (North of Hannover, Germany) again,

meeting my friends of the german jigsaw puzzle forum. Lots of encounters, great conversations. 

I also had time to do a few small finger exercises again, which I'll show you here.

 

Cedar Waxwing

Illustration by Ann-Kathrin Wirth /The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Made in USA by New York Puzzle Company

100 Pieces

Curiosi Q-Puzzle LIFE 04

Snails

72 Pieces

Yorkshire - by Emma Ball

Gibsons, 252 pcs

 

Frogs, 54 Pieces

 

A wooden Dragon, 80 pcs.

Manufacturer unknown (made in China)

 

 

Queen of the Stacks - by Phat Dog Vintage

made of recycled paper

Galison 

 A quilt made of 140 square cloth pieces, artistically sewed by 62 participants during a quilting-event in 2010. Made of old football shirts, flags, household and bed linen and other fabrics in the colours black and yellow. Size 3,40 x 2,4 m

 

I took a photography of this quilt in February 2015

 

 

turned it into a 100-pcs.-jigsaw puzzle and gave it to a friend. Now. almost 9 years later, I was able to assemble it.

Blue owl

wooden jigsaw, no trademark, but cute whimsical pieces 

 

A dove and a small elephant

Curiosi, each 33 pieces

 

four birds by Elwin van der Kolk:

Pimpelmees (blue tit)

Huismus (House sparrow)

Roodborst (Red robin)

Koolmees (Great tit)

 

(c) by Concept Studio Blitz (Bekking & Blitz)

each 32 pieces

and yes, I managed to fit in almost 15 pieces ;-)

 

 which is 0,3 % of 5000 pcs.

Completed 19th August 2024

 

1000 Pieces

 

Frankfurt and Darmstadt (Vivarium), May 2024

Photos taken by me 

 

a swan on the River Main in Frankfurt