Vogelburg
| Vogelburg | ||
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| place | Vogelpark 1 61276 Weilrod- Hasselbach |
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| opening | 1981 | |
| Animal species | Parrots and cockatoos | |
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 Vogelburg, aviary |
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| www.vogelburg.de | ||
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 52 ″ N , 8 ° 20 ′ 38 ″ E
The Vogelburg near the village of Hasselbach in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis in the low mountain range Taunus is a privately operated park for parrots that was founded in 1981.
Geographical location
The Vogelburg is located within the eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus Nature Park, about 900 m south of the village church of the Weilrod district of Hasselbach . Slightly above the village on the north-western Eichelbach tributary Langenbach , it is located at around 400 to 420 m above sea level. NHN on the lower part of the north-northeast flank of the Stückelberg ( 509.7 m ). A few meters north past the facility leads from Schwickershausen in the southwest - south past Hasselbach and running through the Bachtal as part of its northeast section - to Rod an der Weil in the northeast the state road 3030.
investment
More than 700 birds live in the Vogelburg in a total of 37 houses and accessible free-flight facilities. These include parrots such as macaws , blue-fronted parrots , gray parrots , red-faced and brown-eared parakeets, and cockatoos . Besides are Beos to see. They are kept individually or in small groups, but more often in large groups with several species.
All buildings are made of locally extracted rubble stone. This gives the complex an appearance that is reminiscent of a medieval castle . The houses are numbered and connected by a network of paths.
The exhibited birds can be fed by the visitors with food that can be purchased and some of them can also be touched. Selected birds are presented several times a day as part of a parrot show in a cinema-like hall, where they perform tricks.
The Vogelburg offers the possibility to take in parrots from private ownership permanently ("retirement home") or temporarily ("pensioner" e.g. as holiday accommodation).
history
The Vogelburg was founded in 1981 as a private institution. In September 1993 it was temporarily closed by the district president because the keeping was not appropriate to the species. 39 birds were confiscated and placed in official custody. Massive protests were directed against this closure. The SPD in Weilrod also criticized the Hessian nature conservation minister Jörg Jordan (SPD) for this, in their opinion, objectively unjustified closure. At the end of March 1994 the closure order was withdrawn by the regional council and the park reopened. However, only a few of the confiscated animals could be returned, as the majority died during the forced detention caused by the confiscation.
Web links
- Vogelburg (official homepage)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 23, 1994, No. 44, p. 45, Violent criticism of the Vogelburg closure
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 30, 1994, No. 75, p. 47, Vogelburg Weilrod is allowed to reopen