Guided tour with Dr. Michael Lissok and Thoralf Weiß | Meeting point: Hainstraße 5, Eldena, Participation: 7 Euro

Surrounded by productive estates and university forests, Eldena developed into an important information and meeting place for agricultural scientists, farmers, manor owners, estate tenants and administrators with the Agricultural Academy founded in 1835. In the spirit of the beautification movement, the town and its surroundings blossomed through the creation of gardens and plantings in the public area in conjunction with the agricultural and scientific areas of the university and a highly modern, complex agricultural enterprise. Various teaching and experimental gardens were available to the academic gardener Ferdinand Jühlke (1815-1893) for practical horticultural teaching at the Eldena Agricultural Academy.

Nowadays, there are few reminders in the Greifswald district of Eldena that an agricultural college existed here for around four decades. Only fragments of its educational, research and economic facilities remain. Just nine of the former forty or so academy buildings have survived, only two of which are in a condition suitable for preservation. These include the former main building of the academy (Kollegiengebäude) at Hainstraße 5, which is now used by the Jägerhof forestry office. The sites in Eldena where the academy grew trees, fruit and vegetables, where botanical studies and experiments were carried out, can now only be visually guessed at.

The tour follows the traces of the Eldena Agricultural Academy. Some trees and shrubs still bear witness to the heyday of horticulture in Eldena. You will also visit the former main building of the academy and the monastery ruins, which were laid out around 1830.