Cottbus Zoo
| Cottbus Zoo | ||
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| place | Kiekebuscher Strasse 5, 03042 Cottbus |
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| surface | 25 ha | |
| opening | June 1, 1954 | |
| Visitor numbers | approx. 150,000 a year | |
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| management | Jens Kämmerling (Director) | |
| Sponsorship | Own operation of the city of Cottbus | |
| Funding organizations | Association of supporters and friends of the Cottbus ev | |
| Member of | VdZ | |
 Sign for the Cottbus Zoo |
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| http://www.tierparkcottbus.de | ||
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Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 39.8 " N , 14 ° 21 ′ 11.3" E
The zoo Cottbus is the zoo of the city of Cottbus .
In addition to a large number of different animal enclosures, in which around 1200 animals from around 170 species are kept, the zoo has a playground, a petting zoo and gastronomic offers. The complex is characterized in a special way by a large population of trees and the bodies of water fed by the Spree . A specialty of the zoo is the breeding of water birds. About 70 different species of water birds are kept. The zoo's heraldic animal is the red necked goose .
history
The area of today's zoo belonged to the outdoor park of the Branitzer Park designed in the 19th century by Hermann von Pückler-Muskau . Located between Spree and neighboring Branitzer Park, was created by the National Construction of the GDR then Opened on June 1, 1954 Heimattiergarten. In 1956 Erhard Frommhold took over the management of the facility and made it one of eight state-recognized zoological gardens in the GDR. In 1958 the successful breeding of trample was established by the trample stallion Muschnik , who came to Cottbus from the Soviet Union . The wild boar enclosure was one of the first facilities .
After Kunz Rauschert followed as zoo director from 1963 to 1966, Klaus-Jürgen Jacob took over this office, which he held until 2002.
In 1968 the predator house was opened. Lions , tigers and bears were now kept. In 1969 the first elephant lived in the zoo. In the 1970s, an elephant house was built as a simple stable.
The zoo is considered successful in keeping and breeding water birds . Geese , ducks and storks were now permanent residents. The first successful breeding of a chile flamingo was in 1977, the breeding of a crowned crane took place in 1979.
In 1993 the first meeting of the reunited Association of German Zoo Directors (since 2014 Association of Zoological Gardens , VdZ) took place in the zoo.
With the help of the zoo's association founded in 1994 and the city of Cottbus, a large number of new buildings were built. After the construction of a new administration and social building and the penguin rock in 1991, a house for porcupines and meerkats followed in 1993, an extension of the wading bird house in 1994 and a gibbon house in 1997. In 1995 the entrance area was redesigned in the course of the neighboring Federal Horticultural Show .
In 2002 Jens Kämmerling succeeded Director Jacob. In 2003, the second construction phase of the outdoor area of the predator enclosure was completed. In 2004 the pampas hares , the ring-tailed lemurs , a stable for the camels and a new farm building followed. The elephant enclosure was rebuilt from 2002 to 2005. In the same year a large aviary for storks was built. Since the summer of 2014, after the construction of the new predator enclosure, there have been Malay tigers in the zoo again after a long time .
Visitor numbers
- 2005: 136.353
- 2006: 127,700
- 2007: 136,771
- 2008: 134,741
- 2009: 132,796
- 2010: 123.482
- 2011: 138,665
- 2012: 135,611
- 2013: 141,956
- 2014: 153,400
- 2015: 156.743
- 2018: 170.206
- 2019: 177.433
Animal species (selection)
Elephant enclosure
Chinese leopard
The zoo keeps:
- Boa constrictor , Aleutian cackling goose , Asian Elephant , Axis Deer , Tree Duck , Benettkänguru , scaup , blue-winged goose , Böhm-Zebra , Ground Squirrel , Bush Hyrax , Chilean Flamingo , China Leopard , bronzepute , Eider , eland , meerkats , tapir, Donkey , Striated Caracara , Goosander , Gehaubte Capuchins , yellow-billed duck , Gundi, potbellied pig , Hawaiian goose , Hissarschaf , African knob-billed duck , Humboldt penguin, Java banteng , boat-billed , emperor goose , Canada goose , carp , Katta , pochard , cormorant , king vultures , cranes , Cuban Amazon , Cuba Flamingo , West Indian Whistling duck , Kookaburra , Lama , shoveler , white-winged duck , red-crowned crane , african marabou , guinea pigs , Baird's Tapir, Red-breasted merganser , ferruginous duck , Müller-Gibbon , Chinese muntjac , Nandu , coati , Ovamboziege , Pampashase , Pelikan , guinea fowl , peacock , Pfeifgans , widgeon , Przewalski , headed goose , reindeer , Brent goose , Rosapel Millikan , roaches duck , Red Sichler , Rothalsgans , Ruddy-headed Goose , bobcat , Saddleback, Sattelstorch , Sarus Crane , Schellente , Schnatterente , Schneeeule, carp , black-necked swan , Oriental Stork , Plumed Whistling Duck , Shetland Pony , Somali sheep , pintail , Spornschildkröte , Indian stick insects , Western Rosella , plains zebra , ostrich , striped mice , Sumatran tigers, lesser adjutant , Pochard , Bactrian camel , Urson, four-horn sheep , warts duck , Watussirind , white-tailed porcupine , parakeet , wild boar , bison , Witwenpfeifgans , woolly-necked stork , Yak , Zwerggans , dwarf rabbits , small-clawed otter , Smew , Ross's goose , Tundra swan and Pygmy goat .
The zoo is also a center of attraction for many native wild animal species that are "guests" in the zoo, so
- Eel , bream , chub , kingfisher , gray heron , gudgeon , oriole , roach , bleak and white stork .
See also
literature
- Klaus-Jürgen Jacob, Stefan Fischer, Tierpark Cottbus - a companion , Cottbuser General-Anzeiger Verlag, Cottbus 1994
- Jens Kämmerling, Elfi Wichmann, Tierpark Cottbus , Cottbus 2006, ISBN 3-937503-09-9
- Tierpark Cottbus , in: Dirk Petzold, Silke Sorge (Hrsg.): Adventure Zoo. 550 animal parks, aquariums and reptile houses. The zoo guide for Germany, Austria and Switzerland , Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz 2007, pp. 130-131. ISBN 978-3-7020-1151-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ LR-online: Tigers are coming back to Cottbus
- ↑ Press release No. 2016/01 of the zoo
- ↑ The zoo has a new visitor record. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 10, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Record in the Cottbus Zoo. In: Märkischer Bote . January 10, 2020, accessed January 20, 2020 .