125 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1997 - 9 Shilling

125 years ago the "University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences" was founded. The studies of agriculture and forestry exist at the BOKU since 1872 and 1875 respectively, cultural engineering and water management since 1883. The right to doctorate to "Dr. rer. received the college in 1906; only since 1917 there is the title "engineer" (today Dipl. Ing.). The study of food and biotechnology (formerly fermentation technology) was launched in 1945. After the renaming of the university to the university in the year 1975 the study of the landscape planning and care came in 1991 (earlier study attempt landscape ecology and - design) to it. The postgraduate course Technical Environmental Protection, which is carried out together with the Vienna University of Technology, has existed since 1984. The BOKU is the only university in Austria that is involved in agriculture and forestry, cultural and water management, food and biotechnology as well as landscape planning and care , The BOKU sees itself as a teaching and research center for renewable resources, which are a prerequisite for human life. Their task is to make a decisive contribution to future generations through the diversity of their areas of expertise to secure these livelihoods. Through the combination of science, technology and economics, she tries to increase the knowledge of the ecologically and economically sustainable use of natural resources in a harmonious cultural landscape. The University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences owes its reputation to a number of factors such as the construction of studies on fundamental subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, geology and soil science, meteorology and climatology, and the insertion of socio-economic and legal disciplines into the actual BOKU. sciences. Post & Telekom Austria honors the achievements and scientific rank of the BOKU, the University of Life, with the edition of a stamp on the occasion of its 125th anniversary. The brand image shows a symbolic representation.