Guided tours

Get to know old medicinal herbs or visit giant trees? Hear anecdotes from the life of the "virtuous mistress" Franziska von Hohenheim in the state rooms of the Palace? Or spend your vacation time in the children's program of the German Agricultural Museum?

Historical guided tours through the Hohenheim Palace, botanical tours through the Hohenheim Gardens as well as guided museum visits offer new insights and exciting background information.

Alternatively, the UniNow app offers a pocket guide with various campus tours.

Public historical tours

 

Free historical tours in the Palace and Gardens take place on the University’s Open Day at the beginning of July.

Historical tours by arrangement

 

Historical tours for groups in German and English can be arranged. The authorized guides will answer questions about dates directly (see below). Tours cost €60 for each hour or part of an hour. Tours with external companies are possible under certain conditions.

Horticultural-botanical tours are offered by authorized guides from the Hohenheim Gardens.

Historical tours in the Palace

 

Dates: Tours in the Palace are possible all day on weekends and starting at 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Tours can only take place if the Palace rooms are not occupied by other events.
Length: 1.5 - 2 hours
Costs: €60 / hour

  • Campus | Palace | Gardens | History of Hohenheim Museum

Language: German 

Elke Beßenroth
former University employee

T +49 7152 44977
Email

Language: German

Gerlinde Gebhart
former employee of the University Archives and Museum,
Burgen- und Schlösserführerin IHK

T | F +49 711 723786
Email

  • Campus | Palace | Gardens

Language: English

Marcia Canedy-Stehlin
former language instructor at the University of Hohenheim’s Language Center

T +49 711 7543904
C +49 175 5263280
Email

 

Public tours

The annual program of the Hohenheim Gardens includes public tours all year long.

Furthermore, free horticultural-botanical tours take place on the University’s Open Day at the beginning of July.

Private tours

Tours for groups in German and English with prior arrangement with the contact persons listed below.
Length: approx. 1.5 to 2 hours
Cost: €60 / hour
Content: Brief historical overview of the establishment of the Landesarboretum or Botanical Garden and extensive insights into the general and seasonal highlights of the gardens.

Further information and registration

Public tours

The German Agricultural Museum offers regular special exhibits, public tours, and exhibitions. You can find information on the dates in the annual program.

Tours by agreement

Tours for groups or school classes by agreement.

Date: Tours are also possible outside of opening hours
Length: 1-1.5 hours
Cost: up to 35 people €40 / hr (not including entry fees); school classes €2 / student (including entry fee), at least €35
Content: You can choose a general tour through agricultural history, topic-focused tours, or special tours through the technological section.

Additional information

Languages: German | English

Frank Emmerich M.Sc.
Research Associate in German Agricultural Museum

T 0711 459-23375
E-mail

Language: German

Dr. Jürgen Weisser
Museum Director

T 0711 459-23037
E-mail

Tours by agreement

 

Tours for groups can be offered by arrangement.

Tours upon request

Tours for groups are offered upon request. 

Contact for tours in the History of Hohenheim Museum

Language: German 

Elke Beßenroth
former University employee

T +49 7152 44977
E-mail

Language: German

 Gerlinde Gebhart
Former employee of the University Archives and Museum,
Burgen- und Schlösserführerin IHK

T | F +49 711 723786
E-mail

The rules on tours and visiting the state rooms and the Hohenheim Gardens have been put together in the University of Hohenheim’s tour regulations.

Tour regulations  (only available in German)

Tours on campus by external companies

Tours on the University campus by external companies are possible under the following conditions:

Tours by guides authorized by the University:
If the tour guides authorized by the University are used, then they will receive €60 for each hour or part of an hour by the organizer.

Tours by external guides:
Only tours in the Gardens and on the University of Hohenheim campus are possible with external guides; no tours of the Palace are permitted. External companies must conclude a contract with the University regarding each tour carried out by an external guide that regulates pay and liability. The remuneration for the guide is 10% of the fee received by the organizer. You can contact the following persons about the contract:

  • Museums:
    Contact the institution that operates the museum you would like to visit.
  • Hohenheim Gardens:
    Dr. Helmut Dalitz | Scientific Director, Hohenheim Gardens |
    T 0711 459-22181 / -23594 | F 0711 459-23355 | E gaerten@uni-hohenheim.de