Pflanzengarten Bad Schandau

The Pflanzengarten Bad Schandau (6100 m2) is a botanical garden located in the Saxon Switzerland National Park on the Kirnitzschtalstraße (Kirnitzsch valley), Bad Schandau, Saxony, Germany. It is open daily from April to October. The garden opened in 1902 as the Regionalbotanischer Garten Sachsens (Saxon Regional Botanical Garden), with a goal of preserving local plants, including rare poisonous and medicinal plants. As of 2002, it contained nearly 1000 taxa from cool and moist climates around the world, but focuses on plants of the Saxon Switzerland area, including 323 species from the area, of which about 80 species were protected or on Saxony's Red List.