The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (Universität für Bodenkultur BOKU) was established in 1872. First installed at Schönborn palace, the school moved in 1896 to a dedicated building designed by Alois Koch on a hillside northwest of the city centre. Additional buildings were added or purchased over time, gradually turning the leafy neighbourhood into “Vienna’s greenest campus”. BOKU’s Wilhelm Exnerhaus was once the hospital of Vienna’s merchants corporation. One such addition was the former private hospital for the merchant corporation of Vienna, built in 1910 after a design by Ernst Gotthilf von Miskolczy. Taken over by the city in 1939, it was later used as military hospital by the German Luftwaffe and after the war by Soviet and American occupation troops until 1955. In 1960, the disused hospital was purchased by BOKU university and renamed after engineer and BOKU professor Wilhelm Exner. The library of BOKU university in Vienna inside the sanatorium-like…
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