Johannismühle Wildlife Park
Johannismühle Wildlife Park | ||
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motto | Experience nature up close | |
particularities | Large enclosure, free run and birds of prey show | |
place | Johannismühle 2, 15837 Baruth / OT Klasdorf |
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surface | over 100 hectares | |
opening | May 1, 1997 | |
Animal species | approx. 50 | |
Individuals | about 500 | |
Species focus | then and now native animals | |
Visitor numbers | 60,000-80,000 | |
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management | Owner Frithjof Banisch | |
Sponsorship | Private | |
Main entrance |
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http://www.wildpark-johannismuehle.de/ | ||
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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 1 ″ N , 13 ° 31 ′ 4 ″ E
The Johannismühle Wildlife Park is a zoological garden in Klasdorf, Brandenburg . It was founded in 1997 and is privately run. A total of around 500 animals from around 50 different species live on an area of over 100 hectares . The annual number of visitors is around 60,000 to 80,000.
geography
The Johannismühle Wildlife Park is located in the Baruther glacial valley between Baruth and Golßen , directly on the federal highway 96 .
history
The name of the wildlife park is a watermill built in 1730 , the Johannismühle . Towards the end of the Second World War , the staff of an army from the Soviet armed forces in Germany moved into the forester's house, which has now been demolished . Later the Johannismühle Revier became the special hunting area of the commander-in-chief of the Soviet armed forces in Germany. Negotiations with Russian and German authorities on a private initiative made it possible in August 1994 to acquire the property from the administration of the Soviet armed forces and additional areas and to transfer them to a wildlife park.
description
The over 100 hectare enclosed area houses a diverse forest, meadow and pond landscape. Visitors have the opportunity to observe native game species without fences in a free run and sometimes in enclosures. Around 80 percent of the wildlife park is free-range for deer and mouflons . Black deer , red deer and fallow deer , bison , backbred aurochs , wild horses , gray wolves , arctic wolves , lynxes , ospreys and sea eagles , eagle owls , snowy owls , bearded owls , kingfishers and black woodpeckers live in the Johannismühle wildlife park . In addition, the wildlife park offers former circus animals a new home. These include brown bears , tigers and lions . The wildlife park has an aviary complex with pheasants , parakeets as well as day and night birds of prey , a petting zoo and a water bird pond . There are two circular hiking trails (3.2 and 1.8 km long) that open up all the sights of the wildlife park.
Finally, the foundations of the Johannismühle and the former weekend house (dacha) of the commander-in-chief of the Soviet troops in Germany can be visited.
Desert Buzzard at the flight demonstration
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the management of the Johannismühle Wildlife Park, May 2013.