All-weather zoo Münster

All-weather zoo Münster
motto	Experience animals "up close"!
place	Sentruper Strasse 315 48161 Munster
surface	30 hectares
opening	May 2nd 1974
Animal species	311 species (December 31, 2017)
Individuals	2,719 animals (December 31, 2017)
Visitor numbers	649,116 (December 31, 2017)
organization
management	Simone Schehka
Sponsorship	City of Munster, Westphalian Zoological Garden Munster GmbH
Funding organizations	Westphalian Zoological Garden V. Munster
Member of	WAZA , EAZA , VdZ
The sculpture "Interspersed" made of iron by Ludwig Dinnendahl in 1977 based on an original by Karl Ehlers from 1972 is on the forecourt of the Allwetterzoo Münster.
http://www.allwetterzoo.de/

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 47 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 30"  E

The Allwetterzoo Münster is a zoo in the Westphalian city of Münster . It takes its name from the "all-weather walkways" laid out by the zoo architects during construction, which make it possible to reach many of the zoo's houses on covered paths.

The predecessor of the zoo was the zoological garden in Münster, inaugurated in 1875 and closed at the end of 1973 . Today's Allwetterzoo Münster , located in a wooded area near Lake Aasee , was built by 1974 .

The zoo is run by the Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten Münster GmbH , 54.6% of which are owned by the Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten eV Association and 45.4% by the City of Münster.

The zoo also houses the Westphalian Horse Museum , the Biocity Münster and the International Center for Turtle Protection.

The zoo is located in Münster-Sentrup in the vicinity of the Mühlenhof open-air museum Münster and the LWL-Museum für Naturkunde am Aasee on Sentruper Straße .

history

1871 to 1918

Share of 10 Thaler in the Westphalian Zoological Garden in Münster from February 1, 1874

Plan of the zoological garden around 1880

On July 25, 1871, today's zoo association was founded as the "Westphalian Association for Bird Protection, Poultry and Songbird Breeding". In December 1873, Hermann Landois published his “Call for the Establishment of a Westphalian Zoological Garden in Münster” , and a society for the establishment of a zoo was founded. The Westphalian Zoological Garden was opened on June 26, 1875 . The new monkey house with Landois flaps was also inaugurated in 1876 . A Bear Cage followed in 1878. Especially in 1879 found as Nubians -Vorstellungen called Völkerschauen held in which groups from Africa were shown. A wolf den was opened in 1883 and a sow park opened the following year. The first aquarium was opened in 1886 . In 1890 reindeer moved into the zoo. On June 26, 1891, the Provincial Museum of Natural History was inaugurated (today: LWL Museum of Natural History ). In 1892 Landois moved to the zoo, where elephants were first seen. The oriental style elephant house became the landmark of the old zoo on the promenade . The Indian female elephant "August" became the first resident of the elephant house. In 1893 a bird warm house was built, which was converted in 1896 for the first lions and other big cats. In 1899 the head caretaker Wenzel Beer was hired by Hermann Landois. Beer occasionally appeared as a predator trainer in Münster in the following years. He taught the female elephant "August" some skills, for example playing the harmonica and barrel organ, and handling circus platforms and devices. The predator house was opened in 1900 and the Landois monument was inaugurated while Landois was still alive. The new bear kennel was built in 1908. In the following year, the small mammal house was opened. The first king tiger and snow leopards reached the zoo in 1910, a pair of polar bears followed in 1911. The second monkey house, later used as a vivarium, was built in 1912.

1918 to 1946

The "Westphalian Association for Bird Protection, Poultry and Songbird Breeding" was renamed in 1921 to the Association "Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten eV".

In the period after the First World War , the zoo was expanded: a cattle house was opened in 1924 and the camel house was put into operation in 1927. In 1928 the bear pen was expanded. The first sea ​​lions arrived at the zoo in 1929. New additions in the following years were chimpanzees and the hippo "Fefi" . The sea lion pool was set up in 1930. The entrance building was built in 1931. In 1935 the duck pond was created and the zoo grounds were expanded to include the triangle. In 1936 a new predator house was put into operation.

In World War II, many buildings were destroyed and killed many animals. 75% of the zoo was destroyed in 1944. The last two elephants went to Belgium as reparations . It was reopened on August 6, 1946.

1946 to 1973

In 1950 an elephant was able to move into the only slightly damaged elephant house. It was followed by zebras in the same year and leopards a year later. Giant kangaroos came to the zoo in 1955. In 1956, with the completion of the new predator house, the reconstruction was completed. A Galápagos giant tortoise came in 1957. The following year, the first television film was made about the zoo. Due to several dead animals due to incorrect feed, a feeding ban for visitors was issued in 1959. In 1962, anteaters moved to the zoo and the pig house opened. Bison were welcomed to the zoo in 1963. In 1964 over 500,000 visitors visited the zoo for the first time. The tropical house was opened in 1966 .

In 1967 an agreement was reached to swap the old zoo site on the promenade for a larger area on the Sentruper Höhe. The city fathers had offered the former zoo grounds to the Westdeutsche Landesbank in order to keep the company in Münster when the latter was looking for a suitable location for a new building.

Owl tower of the old zoo

After almost 100 years of existence, the old zoo closed its doors on New Year's Eve 1973. The former Owl Tower (around 1959) has been preserved as a memorial. The bank only used its new headquarters until 2009.

Since 1974

In February 1974, lions and tigers were the first animals in the new all-weather zoo. Most of the animals were shipped across the Aasee. On May 2, 1974 the keys were handed over by the architect Bernhard Kösters and the gates of the newly built zoo opened for visitors. The Dolphinarium was opened on August 3, 1974. The urban planning of the zoo comes from the Münster architect Harald Deilmann , the landscape planning from Günther Grzimek .

In 1974 the zoo was visited for the first time by over a million visitors. In 1978 a petting zoo with goats was established. In 1990 a pair of bongos moved to the zoo. From 1993 on, cheetahs were first at the dolphinarium, then since 1997 between the giraffe house and the zoo restaurant on the approximately 7500 m² wet meadows. In 1994 a new elephant house was opened for the Asian elephant breeding group. Between 1998 and 1999, outdoor facilities for ring-tailed lemurs and guerezas were opened. From 1999 the dolphinarium could be visited all day outside of the performances without admission. In 2000 the "orangery", a facility for orangutans , was opened. The children's and horse park was opened in May 2005, and the Biocity Münster in June 2005 . In 2011 the conversion of the elephant facility into a new, larger "elephant park" began. Throughout December 2012, visitors to the zoo were given the option to set their own entry price, in order to ensure a surge in visitors in the seasonally the least visited period of the year with around 10,000 to 12,000 guests. The Allwetterzoo Münster was the first zoo in Germany to temporarily use the Pay-What-You-Want concept .

The dolphinarium was closed in February 2013 for financial reasons and renamed Robbenhaven , where only the group of California sea lions has lived since then . The dolphins were given to the Dolfinarium Harderwijk in the Netherlands.

In July 2013 the elephant park opened on time. The planned budget was also adhered to.

On September 19, 2013, a nurse was bitten in the neck by Amurtiger Rasputin in the outdoor area , and the nurse died immediately. He had apparently forgotten to close the gate that separates the indoor from the outdoor area before entering the outdoor area, which allowed the tiger to get outside and attack him as an intruder. As a result, a new safety technology was installed in the tiger enclosure, which was put into operation in March 2014.

March 8, 2015 was the most successful day for the all-weather zoo since 1989, as a new visitor record of 13,528 visitors was achieved. Even at the zoo anniversary in 2014, when the entry price was only three euros, this record was far short of with 8825 visitors.

With the death of Tiger Rasputin and Leo Jarah, two long-standing crowd pullers died in February 2016 and March 2017 respectively.

Today, around 300 different animal species can be seen in the all-weather zoo on around 30 hectares . Its attractions include the Ape House , the Lion House , the bear house and the aquarium . There is also an elephant house , a tropical house and a petting zoo.

Animal facilities

Siberian tiger Rasputin

Orangutan female with baby in the monkey house

Waders

Elephant feeding (with special feed under supervision)

Dalmatian pelicans on the moat in front of the Africa panorama

African penguins

• Bear house with coatis and sun bears . The Syrian brown bears were given up in 2019 due to the beginning implementation of the master plan 2030 plus.
• Children's and horse park with wild and domestic horses as well as Icelandic horses, Mongolian ponies, Przewalski horses and a wolf enclosure.
• Tropical house with Indian flying foxes, palm and Nile batwing dogs as well as white-faced sakis, red-hand tamarins and balistars . On the floor of the tropical house are the guinea pigs related acouchi to find.
• Siberian tigers and North Persian leopards .
• In the Robbenhaven, visitors have the opportunity to watch sea ​​lions training, feeding, resting or playing.
• Elephant house with tropical hall for Asian elephants and hall for white rhinos as well as outdoor facilities for rhinos, elephants and meerkats . The walk-in aviary for mountain loris is housed in the elephant hall.
• Around 50 large African animals such as plains zebras , wildebeest , springbok , waterbuck , eland and blue-necked ostrich live in the African panorama . Dalmatian pelicans on the moat in front of it .
• Giraffe plant with reticulated giraffes .
• Cheetahs .
• Lion house with lions, Asiatic golden cats as well as Egyptian bat and degus .
• Affricaneum for gorillas , red river hogs and warthogs , Rotscheitelmangaben and Varis , with walk-in facility for lemurs .
• House for "lower monkeys" ( capuchin monkeys , lion tamarins and tamarins ) and spherical armadillos , with walk-in facilities for guerezas .
• Waders ( avocets , oystercatchers , redshank , ruff and dwarf saw ).
• African penguins and gray seals .
• ZoORANGerie - the facility built on the foundations of the old polar bear enclosure houses orangutans and Asian dwarf otters .
• Aquarium (fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects).

Animals close up

Visitors to the all-weather zoo can experience the animals directly at various locations:

• Elephant feeding
• Penguin march
• Feeding penguins and gray seals
• walk-in facilities for smaller species of monkeys
• Tropical house
• Macaw aviary
• Petting zoo with goats , ponies , chickens and a pig
• Walk-in aviary with mountain loris in the elephant house

Species protection

The North Persian leopards, threatened with extinction, have become so rare that every offspring is of particular importance. There is a European conservation breeding program for this species , the stud book of which is kept by the Allwetterzoo.

The first species protection center of a German zoo operates conservation projects in Vietnam and Cambodia and is the seat of the Foundation for species protection . In this context, after five years of project preparation, two female golden-headed tangles, one of the rarest monkey species in the world, were successfully relocated in Vietnam in 2012 .

In 2003 the International Center for Turtle Protection (ISZ) was opened in cooperation with the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science (DGHT), the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection (ZGAP) and the breeder Elmar Meier . The ISZ is located in the BioCity rooms , but is only accessible to visitors as part of registered tours. The aim of the ISZ is to preserve the populations of threatened Asian turtles.

Until its closure in 2013, Delphinarium Münster GmbH supported the South American environmental protection company Yaqu Pacha in the Allwetterzoo Münster . Another collaboration exists with the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds .

Robbenhaven and the Westphalian Horse Museum

Robbenhaven and the Westphalian Horse Museum are located on the grounds of the all-weather zoo . Robbenhaven and the Horse Museum are independent and independent businesses from the Allwetterzoo, each with their own administration and management independent of the Allwetterzoo Münster, but cooperating closely with one another. Since both businesses are located on the grounds of the Allwetterzoo, the decision was made many years ago to integrate admission for both institutions into the Allwetterzoo, Robenhaven and the Westphalian Horse Museum, so that only one entrance fee per person has to be paid at the zoo cash desk.

Animal numbers

While Landois initially had the goal of showing only “the mammals indigenous to Europe as completely as possible” , the public soon asked for animals from other continents. A monkey house was built as early as 1876.

The following table shows the development of the animal population in the zoo up to 2015.

date	all in all		Mammals		Birds		Reptiles		Amphibians		fishes		Invertebrates
	species	Animals	species	Animals	species	Animals	species	Animals	species	Animals	species	Animals	species	Animals
1914	218
March 31, 1930	210	618
March 31, 1934	293	860	90	226	197	625	6th	9
December 31, 1950	162	474	45	137	137	283	9	44	1	8th
Summer 1956	330	920
December 31, 1962	341	1164
December 31, 1965	337	1202
Summer 1972	380	1700
April 1975	408	1355	83	396	169	489	60	143	2	2	86	277	8th	48
December 31, 1979	423	1970
December 31, 1984	391	2030
December 31, 1989	352	2242
December 31, 1994	338	2220
December 31, 1999	319	3401	63	584	105	586	33	192	11	221	75	1165	32	653
December 31, 2005	368	3518	73	650	98	558	52	230	10	137	100	1516	35	427
December 31, 2008	302	3088	64	580	78	517	29	148	7th	43	78	1339	46	461
December 31, 2012	295	3020	63	557	61	484	24	75	7th	48	84	1194	56	662
December 31 2013	320	3054	60	617	59	477	24	87	6th	39	93	1050	78	784
December 31, 2014	345	3492	72	585	65	486	33	101	7th	50	97	1299	86	910
December 31, 2015	298	3447	65	431	56	442	21st	101	6th	78	75	1333	75	1062
December 31, 2016	311	3614	63	409	56	501	26th	92	6th	50	83	1822	77	740

management

Until the end of the 1950s, the association's chairman was the director of the executive committee, and the zoological director was the inspector. He has only had the title of zoo director since 1960. Since the new construction of the zoo, it was organized as a stock corporation Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten AG , supported by the zoo association and the city of Münster. The Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten GmbH has been running the zoo since 1985 .

Chairman of the zoo association		Zoo directors
1871–1876 Hermann Landois 1876–1884 Franz v.Olfers 1884-1894 foreman 1894–1905 Hermann Landois 1906-1907 B. Wulff 1907–1909 Paul Maerker 1909–1910 Wohmann 1910–1922 Ferdinand Verfürth 1924–1928 Hermann Reichling 1928–1933 deposit 1933–1937 Karl Humborg 1937–1945 Franz Falger	1945–1948 Hermann Reichling 1948–1952 Theodor Geringhoff 1952–1959 Julius Rohr 1959–1974 Matthias Lückertz 1974–1979 Heinrich Stadtbäumer 1979–1982 Werner Schulze Buschhoff 1982–1997 Rudolf Wilbrand 1997-2001 Ralph Ziegler 2001–2008 Katharina Krüger since 2008 Helge Peters	1875–1905 Hermann Landois 1908–1925 Heinrich Goffart 1925–1933 Richard Neuhaus 1933 Abel 1934 Goffart 1934-1936 M. Hans Bungartz 1936–1945 Heinz Randow 1945–1948 Hermann Reichling 1949–1957 Ludwig Zukowsky 1957–1960 Heinemann 1960–1980 Helmut Reichling 1980–1994 Götz Ruempler 1994–2015: H. Jörg Adler 2016–2020: Thomas Wilms 2020– Simone Schehka
Chairman of the Supervisory Board		Commercial manager
1969–1974 Werner Weritz 1974–1979 Rudolf Wilbrand 1979–1982 Tono Dreßen 1982–1989 Udo Kreyenborg 1990-2002 Karl August Peters since 2002 Rainer Knoche		1969–1979 Holm Oberstadt 1979–1980 Wolfram Sobotta 1981–2012 Werner Schmitz

Employee structure

In 2012, a total of 85 people worked at the zoo, including the manager. The majority (46) were employed in animal care, four were in training, and eleven each were part of the commercial or technical department. Six gardeners looked after the zoo and six other people worked in the zoological department.

Visitor numbers

The number of visitors is listed below, sorted by year. The sudden drop in visitors from 2014 onwards can be explained by the fact that the VDZ key is no longer displayed, but the number of visitors.

year Visitors 1875 opening 1921/22 129.102 1922/23 127,739 1924/25 137.078 1928/29 178.711 1932/33 145.405 1936/37 178.185 1945 0 (closed) 1950 199,680 1955 327,707 1962 470,000 1964 > 500,000

Reopening of the all-weather zoo

year Visitors 1974 1,242,431 1979 767.129 1984 825.096 1989 845.997 1994 718.127 1999 830.903 2003 908.447 2004 895.200 2005 977.324 2006 1,031,337

year Visitors 2007 1,018,754 2008 950.760 2009 991.990 2010 871.427 2011 935.918 2012 938.360 2013 976.032 2014 947.730 (VDZ key) 556,305 (counted) 2015 915,000 (VDZ key) 618,000 (counted)

year Visitors 2016 615,000 2017 649.116 2018 676.678 2019 680.151

media

The animal documentary series Pinguin, Löwe & Co. produced in the Allwetterzoo was broadcast by ARD in 2006 . Filming began in November 2005, and each episode lasts 50 minutes. This documentary was created due to the success of the show Elefant, Tiger & Co. , which was filmed in Leipzig Zoo . In spring 2008, 40 new episodes of Pinguin, Löwe & Co. were produced by the production company Encanto in the Allwetterzoo.

In May and June 2006 there were several WDR programs about the zoo, including interviews with animal keepers, reports about Jörg Adler and the animals' employment opportunities. The swan Petra attracted media coverage when he wintered at the zoo on his pedal boat in 2006 and 2007. Also known from appearances on television is the penguin Sandy , one of the most famous zoo animals in Germany.

literature

• From Landois to the all-weather zoo: 125 years of the zoo in Münster / Zoo Association, Westphalian Zoological Garden eV Münster, Münster: Schüling, 2000, ISBN 3-930962-14-4
• An elephant, a mosque and an unprovoked professor. Stories from Münster's old zoo / DVD / LWL media center for Westphalia, LWL-Muesumsamt für Westfalen, Münster 2009. ISBN 978-3-939974-10-9

Christmas Garden

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  Water lilies

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  Ice rink

See also

• List of zoological gardens in Germany
• List of zoological gardens in Europe
• Zoo architecture
• Association of Zoological Gardens

Web links

Commons : Allwetterzoo Münster  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Allwetterzoo Münster
• Website of the Zoo Association Westfälischer Garten e. V.
• History of the Münster zoo
• Images of the Allwetterzoo Münster in the image archive of the LWL media center for Westphalia
• Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: old zoological garden in LWL geodata culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Figures and data from the Allwetterzoo Münster. In: Website Allwetterzoo Münster. December 31, 2017, accessed May 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Allwetterzoo Münster - About us - Art. Retrieved on March 28, 2011 (website of the Allwetterzoo Münster with descriptions of the art objects on display.). 
3. ↑ Participation Management Office for Finances and Participations , p. 71, accessed on January 6, 2019
4. ^ Hermann Landois: Appeal, statutes and plan for the establishment of a Westphalian zoological garden in Münster. Münster 1873, digitized version of the ULB Münster
5. ↑ Banks: WestLB gives up its second headquarters in Münster. focus.de, September 22, 2009, accessed December 16, 2016 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Etzkorn: Allwetterzoo Münster: Visitors determine the entrance price themselves. Münstersche Zeitung , November 19, 2012, archived from the original on September 21, 2013 ; Retrieved November 21, 2012 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Martina Döbbe: Awaken the desire for the zoo: Visitors determine their own entry price. Westfälische Nachrichten , November 20, 2012, accessed on November 21, 2012 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Angelika Wölke: The dolphins Nando, Palawas and Rocco from Münster move to Holland. In: DerWesten. February 5, 2013, accessed February 22, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Maryam Schumacher: The slow death of the dolphinariums. Spiegel Online , October 4, 2010, accessed February 26, 2012 . 
10. ↑ There is no money: Dolphins will leave the all-weather zoo by the end of 2012. Münstersche Zeitung , September 10, 2012, archived from the original on September 12, 2010 ; Retrieved November 21, 2012 . 
11. ↑ Dolphins stay longer in Münster than expected. In: world. January 7, 2013, accessed January 14, 2013 . 
12. ↑ Sandra Peter: Elephant Park is ready: pachyderms are already splashing in the water. Westfälische Nachrichten, July 17, 2013, accessed on May 5, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Tiger Rasputin kills nurses . ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Westdeutscher Rundfunk from September 19, 2013.
14. ↑ Record number of visitors - the most successful day since 1989 ( memento of April 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on April 19, 2015.
15. ↑ January 11, 2018. Accessed January 5, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Species protection: All-weather zoo relocates extremely rare monkeys to Vietnam. Münstersche Zeitung , November 20, 2012, accessed on November 21, 2012 . 
17. ↑ ISZ on: biocity-muenster.de, accessed on September 13, 2016
18. ^ Robbenhaven: information. Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Ralf Repöhler: Zookeeper Wilms goes. Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
20. ↑ New director elected for the Allwetterzoo Münster. Retrieved May 14, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Figures and data for 2013. (PDF, 47 kB) (No longer available online.) WESTFÄLISCHER ZOOLOGISCHER GARTEN MÜNSTER GmbH, archived from the original on May 8, 2013 ; accessed on February 22, 2013 (as of January 2013). 
22. ↑ Increased visitors to the Allwetterzoo Münster , on muensterland.de. 11 March 2017.
23. ↑ Allwetterzoo Münster - 2017 visitor numbers at a 10-year high. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
24. ↑ Large number of visitors to the Allwetterzoo. Accessed on January 29, 2019.
25. ↑ More visitors and new animals: Münster Zoo draws a positive balance. Accessed on January 28, 2020.