Hamburg Zoological Garden

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Asian elephant in the Hamburg Zoological Garden around 1900
The aquarium house of the early Hamburg zoo was one of the most important of its time.
Share of 500 Banco Shillings in the zoological garden in Hamburg on August 1, 1864

The Hamburg Zoological Garden was a zoo in Hamburg . It was opened on May 17, 1863 as the fifth German zoo. It was founded on the initiative of some Hamburg citizens (including Ernst Merck , Karl August Möbius , Heinrich Föhring and Heinrich Adolph Meyer ).

development

The opening was preceded by more than three years of planning with the establishment of a zoological society on a share basis . The plan came from the gardener Friedrich Juergens , who also directed the remarks. The trees and bushes were supplied by the tree nursery " James Booth and Sons ". In 1862 the zoologist Alfred Brehm was appointed the first director of the zoological garden. During his time as zoo director, the first volumes of his main work Illustrirtes Thierleben (later Brehm's animal life ), which appeared from 1863, were created. When it opened, the Hamburg Zoo housed the first public saltwater aquarium on German soil. The species-rich collection of animals grew rapidly under Brehm's direction. As a stopover in the flourishing animal trade, the Hamburg Zoo offered a frequently changing animal population in the early years . After friction with the board of directors of the zoological garden and the curtailment of Brehm's competencies, Brehm resigned at the urging of the board of directors with a letter of October 29, 1866, which provided for his resignation in May 1867. However, after the conflict had become public, Brehm was dismissed on November 23, 1866 with immediate effect.

Inspector Sigel had presumably directed the zoo on a provisional basis. Finding a successor was not easy. Ernst Haeckel refused the position. In January 1868 the zoologist Franz Hilgendorf took over the management of the zoo, but only stayed until November 1, 1870. After that, the position was vacant until 1875, when the Hamburg girls' school teacher Heinrich Bolau was appointed director on October 14, 1875. During his tenure, Carl Hagenbeck opened his Hagenbeck Zoo in Stellingen, which was praised as an animal paradise, in 1907 and made life difficult for the chronically underfunded Hamburg Zoo, which also did not know how to counter innovations. Tired of the office, Bolau retired on May 1, 1909. In 1909 the zoologist Julius Vosseler , who had experience in Africa, did not take on an easy legacy. Nevertheless, he managed to build up an exquisite population of animals and to give the animals impeccable care in difficult times. When the Hamburg Zoological Society was transforming it into a people's and bird park, the well-deserved zoo director retired in 1927.

The zoological garden had an area of ​​approx. 14 hectares, which the Hamburg Senate gave the Zoological Society free of charge for fifty years. Extensions could only be negotiated slowly, so that the area should be returned to the city of Hamburg after 1920. The zoological garden has been closed since 1930. Part of the site was converted into a fairground known as the “Volkspark” with a fair, the other part into a bird park. The latter was liquidated after a year and a half. In 1934 and 1935, the park was redesigned for the Low German Garden Show under the direction of the garden architect Karl Plomin. Since then, there has been Planten un Blomen , an approximately 47 hectare park. Tiergartenstraße on the border with the railway is a reminder of the earlier use of the site. Until 1970, some small animal enclosures from the zoological garden were kept in Hamburg's city park.

literature

chronologically

Overall presentation

Annual reports in issues of the magazine Der Zoologischer Garten

building

people

  • K. Braun and Georg Grimpe: Personal News . Hamburg. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 6, 1933, p. 283.
  • Georg Grimpe: Julius Vosseler for his 70th birthday. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 4, 1931, pp. 313-317.
  • Wilhelm Weltner : Franz Hilgendorf. December 5, 1839 - July 5, 1904. An obituary. In: Archives for Natural History. Volume 72, 1906, No. 1, pp. I-XII. Digitized
  • Alfred Edmund Brehm: My position on the Hamburg Zoological Garden and my dismissal. Hamburg 1866.

Animals

Mentions

  • Annelore Rieke-Müller and Lothar Dittrich : The lion roars next door. The establishment of zoological gardens in the German-speaking area 1833-1869. Böhlau, Cologne 1998, pp. 141–157.
  • Hans-Dietrich Haemmerlein: The son of the bird pastor. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1985.
  • Jürgen W. Scheutzow: From 125 years of exhibition history in Hamburg , special print (16 pages), Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH, Hamburg approx. 1983.
  • Werner Kourist: 400 years of the zoo. In the mirror of the Werner Kourist / Bonn collection. Rheinland-Verlag on commission from Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1976, pp. 142–151.
  • Lothar Schlawe: From the history of the Hamburg zoo. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 41, 1972, pp. 168-186.
  • Ludwig Heck: cheerful and serious memories of zoo gardeners. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 13, 1941, pp. 355-361.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Rieke-Müller & Dittrich (1998), p. 156
  2. ↑ a b c Haemmerlein (1985), p. 175
  3. ↑ Haemmerlein (1985), p. 176.
  4. ↑ Weltner (1906), p. III
  5. ↑ a b Heck (1941); P. 357
  6. ↑ a b Grimpe (1931), p. 316
  7. ↑ Grimpe (1931), p. 315
  8. ↑ Braun & Grimpe (1933)
  9. ^ Mohr (1931)
  10. ↑ Anonymous (1931)

Web links

Commons : Zoo Hamburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 47.7 "  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 55.5"  E