The "Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit, Wine and Horticulture Wädenswil" was founded in 1890 under the name "Deutschschweizerische Versuchsstation für Obst-, Wein- und Gartenbau". It was initially located in Wädenswil Castle (see picture) on Lake Zurich in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
The foundation was primarily initiated by Colonel Viktor Fehr (1846-1938) from the Ittingen Charterhouse and Director Lutz from the Strickhof Agricultural School in Zurich. It was initially run by a concordat of several German-speaking Swiss cantons; in 1902 the station was taken over by the federal government and developed into a federal research institute. The research facilities were later moved to a separate institute site in Wädenswil, which is now part of the Agroscope federal agricultural research centre.
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