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On Tharandt campus one encounters one of the most long-standing forestry educational establishments all over the world. For more than 200 years forest sciences courses have been offered. Here you can study and do research work in an amenable and near-natural environment. In modern teaching and research facilities you can find a great number of environmental topics being dealt with.
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“A forestry academy does not thrive without forest and its utilization like also a mining academy can’t properly exist without a mine.” For this reason Heinrich Cotta chose Tharandt as the premise for his forestry school in 1811 when he followed a call by the Saxon Royal Court to take over the Saxon Forest Mensuration Institution. The location of the Forestry Department within the idyllic valley between the hills of river "Wilde Weißeritz" and nearby Tharandt Forest provides the students with the opportunity to directly investigate the forest ecosystem in its wholeness and in its connectedness to the environment.

Forstbotanischer Garten, Tharandt © TU Dresden / S. Bonn
Forest Botanical Garden, Arboretum Tharandt

The Forest Botanical Garden Tharandt – one of the oldest scientific collections of woody plants worldwide, also referred to as Arboretum of the Land of Saxony - was founded by Heinrich Cotta and established by Adam Reum, Professor of mathematics, mensuration and botany, who came to Tharandt together with Heinrich Cotta. The Garden covers an area of 33 ha with 18 km hiking trails along the hillsides of mount Kienberg, overlooking the forest town of Tharandt. It comprises a unique collection of woody plants of approx. 2000 tree species.
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Department of Forest Sciences Tharandt

In Tharandt you find one of the oldest forestry educational institutions. In 1811 Heinrich Cotta moved his forestry school from Zillbach in Thuringia to Tharandt upon a call by the Saxon Royal Court, because of the need to re-establish the overused forests. In 1816 Cotta’s private forestry school in Tharandt was taken over by the state and transformed into the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry.

The affiliation to the Technical College (Technische Hochschule Dresden - now TU Dresden) took place in 1929.

Today the Department of Forest Sciences is part of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of Technische Universität Dresden. 

The Department comprises 9 institutes with 20 Chairs.

Tharandt - a place of forestry education - is characterized by its vicinity to the Saxon capital Dresden and by being integrated in a large university, at the same time providing individual consultation and guidance for the students in a pleasant atmosphere.

Hauptgebäude, Pienner Str. 8 © TU Dresden/S. Bonn
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Hauptgebäude, Room E03 Pienner Str. 8

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TUD Dresden University of Technology Fachrichtung Forstwissenschaften

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