Görlitz Zoo

Görlitz Zoo
Eingang Tierpark
Date opened 1957
Location Zittauer Str. 43
02826 Görlitz, Germany
Coordinates 51°8′30″N 14°58′49″E / 51.14167°N 14.98028°E / 51.14167; 14.98028Coordinates: 51°8′30″N 14°58′49″E / 51.14167°N 14.98028°E / 51.14167; 14.98028
Land area 5 hectares (12 acres)
No. of animals 500
No. of species 100
Annual visitors 140.000 (2015)
Memberships EAZA,[1] WAZA[2]
Owner Naturschutz-Tierpark Görlitz e. V.
Director Sven Hammer
Website www.tierpark-goerlitz.de

The Görlitz Zoo (German: Naturschutz-Tierpark Görlitz) is a zoo in Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.


Founded in 1957, it covers 5 hectares (12.4 acres) and houses 500 animals from 100 species and also some types of domestic breeds.

History

Görlitz Zoo was founded 1957 upon the initiative of the mayor of Görlitz, Bruno Gleißberg, and the directors of gardens, Henry Kraft, on the private grounds of the factory owner, Richard Raupach, which was given to the public of Görlitz after 1945.

Among the first enclosures was for wild boars and roe deers, a pony stable, and "Bärenzwinger", a cage for brown bears, followed, in the early 1960s, by enclosures for fallow deers, monkeys and a bird aviary, as well as a kitchen to prepare foods for the animals.

Number of visitors

  • 2011: 105.000 [3]
  • 2014: 130.000 [4]
  • 2015: 140.000[5]

Management

  • until 2011 Axel Gebauer
  • since 2011 Sven Hammer

Pictures

See also

References

  1. ↑ "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. European Association of Zoos and Aquaria. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  2. ↑ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "Fehler 404 - Seite nicht gefunden — Alles-Lausitz.de".
  4. ↑ sz-online. "Sächsische Zeitung — online".
  5. ↑ "Fehler 404 - Seite nicht gefunden — Alles-Lausitz.de".

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