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Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen

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The Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen is a botanical garden specializing in tropical crops, maintained by the University of Kassel. It is located in greenhouses at Steinstraße 19, Witzenhausen, Hesse, Germany, and open several afternoons per week. The greenhouses were first established in 1902 to support the colonial School of Agriculture, Trade and Industry (founded 1898), and then consisted of a central palm house with adjacent tropical and cold houses. These houses were replaced in 1937 with larger facilities which were extensively damaged in World War II. Postwar reconstruction was slow and the greenhouses did not resume operation until 1957 under the auspices of the Deutschen Instituts für Tropische und Subtropische Landwirtschaft GmbH (DITSL). A modern greenhouse of 1,200 square metres (13,000 sq ft) was built in 1965, with many improvements in 1971. Seminar rooms totaling 300 square metres (3,200 sq ft) and a research area of 150 square metres (1,600 sq ft) were added in 1987 and 1995 respectively. Today the greenhouses proper are divided into five areas: a 10-metre (33 ft) high palm house of 240 square metres (2,600 sq ft) as well as a coffee house, cocoa house, field cultures room, and orangery, each with a floor area of 225 square metres (2,420 sq ft) and 5 metres (16 ft) high.

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Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen
An der Fährgasse, Witzenhausen

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Tropengewächshaus

An der Fährgasse 1
37213 Witzenhausen
Hesse, Germany
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Universität Kassel

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Ludwigstein Castle

Ludwigstein Castle (German: Burg Ludwigstein) is a 15th-century castle overlooking the river Werra and surrounded by woodland. It stands southwest of the town of Witzenhausen in North Hesse. Founded in 1415 the castle's buildings today were built in the 16th and 20th centuries. It was allowed to go to ruin in the late 19th century. After the First World War, the Wandervogel and German Youth Movement joined together to save the castle. In 1920 they founded the Jugendburg Ludwigstein Association to buy the structure, renovate it, and erect a memorial to the fifty thousand Wandervogel who had been killed from 1914 to 1918. During the Nazi period, however, the castle became first a training center for the Hitler Youth, then a destination for city children evacuated to avoid air raids during the Second World War. After the war it served briefly as a refugee camp. Suppressed in 1941, the Jugendburg Ludwigstein Association was re-founded in 1945, and took renewed possession of the castle in 1946. The castle's youth education centre (Jugendbildungsstätte) offers both daily programs and weekend seminars, ranging from ecological topics to music and political education. Also on site are the Archives of the German Youth Movement with their own library and collections of personal papers. The castle is today the main center of the Bündische Jugend and many German Scouting associations. The castle also serves as a hostel with up to 180 beds and different meeting rooms. Knud Ahlborn (1888–1977) Ellen Gregori (1897–1981) Eberhard Koebel (1907–1955) founder of 'Deutsche Jungenschaft vom 1.11.1929' Alexander Lion (1870–1962) founder of first German Scout Organization 'Deutscher Pfadfinderbund' Karl Otto Paetel (1906–1975) Gertrud Prellwitz (1869–1942) Gustav Wyneken (1875–1964)