Anima wildlife

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Anima animal world in the planned final stage

The Anima Tierwelt is a zoo project that will be created in 2018 in the northern Black Forest at the Breitenbrunnen in Sasbachwalden . From 2020, native animal species from the Black Forest region, such as lynx, wolf, bear, eagle owl and otter, will be on display here on around 54 hectares . The planning of the project began in 2010 by the initiators and current managing directors Maria Wruck and Davina Schmitz. The construction phase, which began in 2018, will be accompanied by the architect Peter Kruse and the zoo designers Eckhard and Christian Wiesenthal, who work in Europe. The project is planned to be implemented in several construction stages. The first construction phase is to be completed in 2020 and includes a show farm, farmyard, therapy building and gastronomy, the first relevant animal enclosures such as wolf, deer and wild boar. The building project has a volume of around 20 million euros in the first stage and is expected to cost around 50 million euros in total. The zoo is complemented by the Ani.Motion Institute, an institution for the treatment of mentally ill people. The core of this institute is treatment using animal-assisted therapy. Specially trained donkeys and dogs are used here, for example. The head of the institute is Rainer Wohlfahrt, who is an expert in the field of animal-assisted therapy in German-speaking countries.

On November 4, 2019, the foundation behind the project announced that the construction of the Anima Tierwelt exceeded the available capital of 20 million euros and was therefore about to end.

Animal facilities

The special thing about the animal enclosures of the Anima Tierwelt is that they are adapted to the topography on the site. For example, natural habitats for foxes, badgers or wolves are determined by the planners and experts, left in their natural state and only fenced in professionally. In this way, the zoo that is created adapts to the flora and fauna of the area and not the other way around. The visitor platforms and paths are laid out in such a way that a view of the animals that is as fence-free as possible is possible. Furthermore, the Anima animal world will contain innovations that have not yet existed in any other zoo. One of them is the so-called wild clearing. This is an area between the wolf and wild boar enclosures that will be created, which can be released for the animals by means of access locks. The area serves the zoo's enrichment program, gives the wild boars the opportunity to search for food and leaves the wolves with scent notes that appeal to their senses.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anima Tierwelt - The Project. In: Website Sasbachwalden. Tourist-Info Sasbachwalden, accessed on November 6, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Anima Tierwelt am Breitenbrunnen is about to end. In: Press release from Anima Tierwelt. Accessed November 5, 2019 (German).