Wilhelm-Furtwängler-Garten
Walled university courtyard turned botanical garden, now home to modern sculpture and shaded paths.
This guide to the Wilhelm-Furtwangler-Garten in Salzburg starts with a walled courtyard you could cross in under a minute today, and traces how it once held thousands of plant species. It follows Franz Anton Ranftl, the merchant who leased the old university plot in 1780 and turned a former vegetable patch and jousting yard into a private botanical garden and seed-trading sideline. You'll hear how the city kept the collection alive after his lease ended, handing it to the medical school for teaching healing and poisonous plants alike. Stand near the modern pavilion and picture the arboretum that used to fill this ground.
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