Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg, Educational botanical garden near city center in Strasbourg, France

The Botanical Garden of Strasbourg University is a 3.5-hectare outdoor museum displaying roughly 6,000 plant species from different climates and habitats. The site includes greenhouses for tropical plants and open areas with systematically arranged collections.

The site was established in 1619 as one of France's early botanical gardens and relocated to Strasbourg in 1884 when the region came under German administration. This move followed the scientific standards of the era and shaped the garden's current layout.

The garden's name honours Heinrich Anton de Bary, the botanist and first rector of the Imperial University who drew up the plans for the new garden and its greenhouses. The Bary Greenhouse, a 4,000 m² structure by architect Hermann Eggert, was built specifically to cultivate the giant Amazonian water lily Victoria Regia.

The garden lies at 28 rue Goethe, behind the historic university campus, with the astronomical observatory at its centre and a pond among the nine plots. Entry is free and it is open daily. Visitors reach it on foot from the city centre, and the flat paths make the grounds easy to tour.

The Bary Greenhouse was built because Anton de Bary insisted on a house for the giant Amazonian water lily Victoria Regia. This costly 4,000 m² structure, designed by university architect Hermann Eggert, was damaged by a hail storm in 1958 and saved from demolition in 1963.