Ulm Zoo

Ulm Zoo
place	Friedrichsau 40 ; 89073 Ulm
opening	1966
organization
Sponsorship	City of Ulm
Funding organizations	Association of Friends of the Ulmer Tiergarten e. V.
	Entrance to the Ulm Zoo

48.410277777778 10.011944444444Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 37 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 43 ″ E

The Ulm Zoo is a zoological institution of the city of Ulm . It was founded in 1935, closed in 1944 and reopened in 1966.

General plan in the zoo.

history

The basis for the small zoo in Friedrichsau, which was founded in 1935, was a monkey enclosure that was built in a shed in 1927, as well as aviaries for pheasants and other birds. At the opening, the aquarium house, aviaries, a deer pit and a bear enclosure were completed. During the turmoil of World War II , the park was closed in 1944.

In 1954, the Ulm Aquarium and Terrarium Association , which had now been dissolved, set up a small aquarium and terrarium show in the old bird house. Two years later, the Neues Aquarium e. V. founded. The city of Ulm commissioned them to look after the aquarium show. In 1961 a fire destroyed the entire facility.

The new aquarium house was opened on the same site in 1966. The tropical house was opened in 1980 as part of the State Horticultural Show in Ulm. In 1986 the small zoo was expanded with a free-flight aviary and monkey enclosures.

In 1999, the city of Ulm hired trained zookeepers for the first time to look after the zoo and approved grants for the expansion of the facility. In the period that followed, a new facility for Bennet kangaroos , the South American meadow for rheas and alpacas were opened, the aviaries for African gray parrots , parakeets and green-winged macaws were renewed and a new bear enclosure was created.

In 2003 the Ulm Zoo became a training company. In the same year, the Association of Friends of the Ulmer Tiergarten e. V. The zoo lives up to its educational requirements with its zoo school , which offers thematic offers for schoolchildren.

In 2005, more than 120,000 people visited the zoo.

In February 2008, after years of preparation, an extension of the aquarium was opened. With the extension to the existing aquarium house, the closeness of the zoo to the Danube is explicitly used. In an artificial Danube basin, visitors can watch native freshwater fish while walking through a plexiglass tube above and next to them.