Magdeburg Zoological Garden
| Magdeburg Zoological Garden | ||
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| motto | Animal close ... | |
| place | Zooallee 1 39124 Magdeburg |
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| surface | 16 hectares | |
| opening | July 21, 1950 | |
| Animal species | 214 | |
| Individuals | circa 1400 | |
| Visitor numbers | approx. 340,000 annually | |
| organization | ||
| management | Kai Perret (Managing Director) | |
| Sponsorship | Magdeburg Zoological Garden gGmbH | |
| Funding organizations | Friends of Zoofreunde Magdeburg e. V. | |
| Member of | WAZA , EAZA , VdZ | |
 The Zoowelle , the new entrance building |
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| www.zoo-magdeburg.de | ||
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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 5 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 28 ″ E
The Magdeburg Zoological Garden , or Magdeburg Zoo for short , is a zoological garden in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
Data
The 16 hectare zoo in Magdeburg is visited by around 340,000 visitors every year. It has parkland and a large playground for children. In 2016, around 1,400 animals belonging to over 210 species or races lived in the zoo.
The zoo is located in the Neue Neustadt district .
history
After the end of the Second World War , there was a growing interest in Magdeburg to have its own zoo . Many, mostly voluntary, helpers took part in the construction, so that the Magdeburg zoo was opened on July 21, 1950 . In 1957, the city council decided to expand the zoo as planned. In 1959 the site already covered around 20 hectares, so it was decided to rename it to Magdeburg Zoo , or Magdeburg Zoo for short .
In 1960 the first Asian elephant reached the zoo. In particular, under the directorship of Wolfgang Pusch Man (1979 to 1998) the Zoo Magdeburg could become quickly a name in the zoo world and was particularly due to the successful breeding of black rhinos , South American marmosets , lynx and big cats known internationally.
In 1991, the redesign of the zoo began from a classic to an experience-oriented one. Many cages and outdated systems gave way to new, modern enclosures that are more species-appropriate and more visitor-friendly.
In 1991, a giraffe house accessible to visitors was built within four days as part of the ARD broadcast Now or Never with presenter Ingo Dubinski . Many people helped with the completion of the house free of charge. An accessible also for visitors ape house was opened 1994th It was mainly financed by more than 5000 individual donations.
In 2009 the first savanna facility (Africambo 1) was opened. This is a spacious steppe area where different animals such as zebras, Rothschild giraffes, billy goats, monkeys and black rhinos live together.
In 2013 the construction of a 3.1 million euro “primate house” began in Magdeburg Zoo, a new abode for monkeys was to be built. However, two complaints by a resident before the Higher Administrative Court ensured that the construction of the monkey house was stopped due to inadequate noise protection measures. In order to avoid the construction freeze, the decision was made to convert the building into a tropical house without any animals living in it, so that the shell could be completed before the onset of winter 2013 and thus averted financial damage. In February 2014, the court decided to lift the construction stop on the monkey house. In July 2014, a group of chimpanzees from the Münster Allwetterzoo moved into the completed facility.
In October 2014, the 800 m² “Madagascar complex” was completed, for which the “Zoofreunde Magdeburg” association had collected 120,000 euros. Among other things , ring-tailed lemurs , red-fronted lemurs and other semi-monkey species are housed there. The enclosure will be accessible to visitors.
Further renovation work
In January 2015, with the demolition of the old farm building, the 7.7 million euro renovation work for the largest construction project at Magdeburg Zoo began. In the new area Africambo 2 , the two elephant cows - one Asian and one African - and a herd of young bulls were to be given a new shelter. The Asian female elephant "Burma" died in September 2018, so there are only African elephants in the zoo. But accommodation for other animal species such as African wild dogs , rock hyrax , zebra mongooses or white-throated monitor lizards should also be created there. In addition, a culture and exhibition center on the subject of elephants is to be created in Africambo 2 . In the previous elephant enclosure , there is room for springboks , jackals and warthogs . At the beginning of 2007 the Maxi-CD Elefantenblues was published, the purchase of which supported the construction of the new facility.
Investments
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Conviction of employees
In June 2010 the zoo director and three other employees were sentenced to a fine by the Magdeburg district court on the basis of Section 17 No. 1 TierSchG . They were accused of killing three newborn Siberian tigers in 2008 as part of the European Endangered Species Program because they were not purebred. There was no space for them in the zoo. According to the judge, there was no reasonable cause for the killing and it was neither necessary nor appropriate. The subsequent revision was unsuccessful.
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particularities
On December 24, 2011, a black rhinoceros was born in Magdeburg Zoo . The birth could be followed live via webcam from Stern-TV . The name could be voted on on the Internet. Kenya , the great-grandmother of this animal, died in autumn 2013 at the age of 46, making it the oldest black rhino in the world. It came to Magdeburg Zoo in 1970 and was the first black rhinoceros in the GDR to give birth to a child in 1979 .
Other births that could be followed live by Stern-TV via webcam were a giraffe birth in February 2012, a snow leopard birth in June 2013 and another rhino birth in March 2015.
literature
- Michael Schröpel: Under the sign of the lynx. 50 years of Magdeburg Zoo. Magdeburg without year, without ISBN
- Björn Encke et al .: 60 years of Magdeburg Zoo. From A – Z. Ed .: Magdeburg Zoological Garden. Klaus Schüling Verlag, Münster 2010. ISBN 978-3-86523-165-9 .
Web links
- Official website of the Magdeburg Zoological Garden
- Site of the zoo's friends' association
- Magdeburg Zoo in second place in international ranking. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 30, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report 2014 ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 6, 2015
- ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg: Magdeburg Zoo takes on 37 new animal species. Retrieved March 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Schröpel n.d.
- ↑ Construction stop for the primate house October 2013
- ↑ Affenhaus becomes a tropical house November 2013
- ↑ Monkey house may be built, February 2014 ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Chimpanzees move into new homes. ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) MDR Saxony-Anhalt from July 17, 2014.
- ^ Opening of the Madagascar facility in October 2014 volksstimme.de October 22, 2014
- ↑ Magdeburg Zoo mourns the elephant Burma. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 5, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Volksstimme: Start of construction on Africambo 2 January 22, 2015.
- ^ LG Magdeburg - December 6, 2010 - AZ: 26 Ns 120/10
- ↑ OLG Naumburg - June 28, 2011 - AZ: 2 Ss 82/11
- ↑ Judgment against employees is final ( memento from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The world's oldest black rhinoceros dead
- ↑ Elephant, rhino, giraffe: Live when baby animals are born | stern TV . In: Stern-Testing . July 20, 2016 ( stern.de [accessed October 16, 2016]).
