Johannismühle Wildlife Park

Johannismühle Wildlife Park
motto	Experience nature up close
particularities	Large enclosure, free run and birds of prey show
place	Johannismühle 2, ; 15837 Baruth / OT Klasdorf
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
organization
management	Owner Frithjof Banisch
Sponsorship	Private
	Main entrance
	http://www.wildpark-johannismuehle.de/

52.016944444444 13.517777777778Coordinates: 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.