25 Years of the WITTENSTEIN World Garden – Experience Diversity, Understand Change

An industrial company in a botanical garden? At WITTENSTEIN, this has been a reality for 25 years. The World Garden at the company’s headquarters in Igersheim-Harthausen surrounds the buildings of this family-owned business. It brings together nature, architecture, and art. In 2025, WITTENSTEIN will celebrate this anniversary with a film that impressively showcases this symbiosis.

A place that surprises: Instead of concrete and a leveled site, the WITTENSTEIN buildings at the headquarters in Igersheim-Harthausen join into a landscape that has retained its natural contours. Trees, shrubs, and flowers grow all around—and sculptures can be discovered among them. For 25 years, the WITTENSTEIN World Garden has been more than just a green gem. It embodies the family-owned company’s international orientation and its values: responsibility, trust, openness, innovation, and change.

With over 500 trees and shrubs from countries where WITTENSTEIN operates, the garden tells a story of global thinking and sustainable action. As early as 2006, it was honored as a “Selected Site” as part of the “Germany – Land of Ideas” initiative. In 2025, another accolade was added. At the Princely Garden Days in Langenburg, the World Garden received the title “Garden of the Year 2025/2026.” The competition recognizes concepts that combine nature, creativity, and community.

To mark the World Garden’s anniversary, a film was also produced that shows how entrepreneurship, nature, and technology intertwine at WITTENSTEIN. It highlights what makes the World Garden special: it is a place of encounter, reflection, and inspiration—and a living symbol of responsibility in action.

The anniversary film is now available on the WITTENSTEIN group’s YouTube channel (@WITTENSTEIN_group). You can find it at this link: 25 Years of the World Garden.

Anyone who would like to experience the World Garden for themselves is warmly invited. You can visit on your own after registering at the company’s reception desk, or join a guided tour led by the World Garden’s curator, Dr. Susanne Böll. Please direct inquiries via email to weltgarten(at)wittenstein.de.

Images:

01_Fuji cherry (WITTENSTEIN SE/Susanne Böll)
The first tree in the World Garden was a Fuji cherry, which still stands today.

02_WITTENSTEIN World Garden (WITTENSTEIN SE/Sabine Maier)
For WITTENSTEIN employees, the World Garden is a popular spot for a break when the weather is nice—whether for a stroll or to relax on one of the benches scattered throughout the garden.

03_Tulip tree (WITTENSTEIN SE/Susanne Böll)
Exciting blooms can be discovered in the World Garden all year round—here, for example, on the tulip tree.

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