Arboretum Main-Taunus

The Arboretum Main rope is ready 76 ha huge park on surfaces of the communities Sulzbach 51 ha, Schwalbach am Taunus 23 ha and Eschborn 2 ha. Between 1937 and 1945 the total 185-hectare web site became airbase of the German Luftwaffe. After the struggle, it became used as an airfield by way of the Americans till the reopening of Frankfurt Airport. Thereafter, the land have become the belongings of the Federal Republic of Germany and became used by the German Federal Post Office and the Technical Relief Agency. In 1981, the nation of Hesse received the freely handy seventy six hectares so that it will plant them as alternative forestation for the enlargement of Frankfurt Airport.

The arboretum grows around six hundred specific tree and shrub species. While tree parks generally consist of a set of man or woman bushes - with a call tag and designation of starting place - the nation of Hesse has taken a one-of-a-kind approach with the Arboretum. Depicted are numerous wooded area areas of the earth, every represented by way of a collection of timber and shrubs, as they arise in nature. Between the character of the 36 small "forests" there are orchards and flower meadows, a nature path for rocks and one for native trees and a wetland biotope, that is completely grown for its safety.