Gersfeld Wildlife Park
| Gersfeld Wildlife Park | ||
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| surface | 50 hectares | |
| opening | 1972 | |
| Animal species | about 25 species | |
| Individuals | approx. 150 animals | |
| Visitor numbers | approx. 60,000 annually | |
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 Outdoor enclosure |
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| www.wildpark-gersfeld.de | ||
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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '34 " N , 9 ° 54' 48" E
The Gersfeld Wildlife Park (also called Ehrengrund Wildlife Protection Park ) is a wildlife park in the Hessian Rhön , about one kilometer southeast of Gersfeld an der Stecheller in the Ehrengrund Valley. It is located at about 550 m above sea level. NHN , opened in July 1972 and is one of the most natural wildlife parks in Germany. The facility is embedded in a coniferous and mixed forest and is visited by around 60,000 people annually. The zoo stretches in the deeply cut Ehrengrund about a kilometer to the southeast and is accessible via a small and large circular path . The valley rises to about 600 meters above sea level until the end of the parking lot and is from the Simmelsberg (843 meters above sea level), Himmeldunkberg (888 meters above sea level), from the Hohen Hölle (894 meters above sea level) and the Kesselstein (800 meters above sea level) ) framed.
description
The game park, which is open all year round, has an area of 50 hectares, on which around 150 animals from around 25 species are kept in extensive grounds. Mainly European wildlife species can be seen. Fallow deer , red deer and roe deer , mouflon , Sika , Dybowski, a subspecies of the Sika deer , and wild boar , chamois and ibex live on extensive forest and meadow areas . In the park there is a children's playground, a petting zoo with goats and a restaurant. All paths are wheelchair accessible. In the middle part of the park, the Ehrenbach was crossed on a timber bridge in half-timbered construction. As renovation was too expensive, this was demolished in 2011 and the medium-long one of three circular routes was slightly extended. Wild birds and game birds can be seen on a 6000 square meter pond. In 2008 an aviary with snow owls was opened and young foxes settled in an enclosure of 200 square meters. Since 2011 there has been an aviary with black grouse , which is threatened with extinction in the Rhön. The animals kept are breeding birds, the aviary was co-financed by the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . In autumn 2012 a biotope for otters , also funded by the biosphere reserve, was added.
There are cages for raccoons , peacocks and pheasants in the entrance area of the wildlife park . Since 2013 there has been a thought path (R) for the mind with 13 information boards in the park. For some time now, a group of bison can also be seen. In an accessible game gate, visitors can make direct contact with the dams kept there without being separated by a fence and let them eat out of their hands.
photos
entrance
bridge
Outdoor enclosure
Cage
Walk-in enclosure
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gersfeld Wildlife Park (since 1972). City of Gersfeld (archive link), archived from the original on April 12, 2011 ; Retrieved July 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Wildlife Protection Park Ehrengrund Gersfeld / Rhön. Zoo-Infos.de, May 2009, accessed on June 14, 2009 .
- ↑ Norman Zellmer: Aviary inaugurated: Black grouse moves into wildlife park ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Fuldaer Zeitung of September 27, 2011.
- ↑ "Girls" Ottie Fisch "and" Ottilie "bewitched - otters in the wildlife park". Osthessen-News, August 28, 2013, accessed on October 25, 2013 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 13, 2016 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.
See also
Web links
- Gersfeld Wildlife Park ( Memento from April 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )