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Already in 1964/1965 today's test site has been created in its basic structure . It was used then to train in Witzenhausen tropical engineers in the use of different irrigation types, which they should maintain in their development projects.. The "irrigation demonstration unit" of the former Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture was described in detail in 1966 in the journal  "Der Tropenlandwirt" ", edition 1966, by the cult. Ing. Fritz Schumacher .

The  cultural  at the Witzenhausen training center for tropical farmers reported.  In the same journal "Der Tropenlandwirt" edition1981, Prof. Dr. Peter Wolff reports about the development teaching activities in the field of Land and Water Management Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Peter Wolff, head of the Department of Irrigation and Environmental Engineering at the Department 21 (International Agriculture), gives a detailed description of his Department in a special  edition  of June 1988.

 

top view of the area from 1966

The head of the test site

Johann Heimann 1920-1921

cross-section
of the area from 1966

Prof. Dr. Peter Wolff 1972-1997
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krause 1997-2005
Prof. Dr. Oliver Hensel since 2005

Over the years