Tierpark Hellabrunn

www.tierpark-hellabrunn.de

City: München

Country: Germany

State: Bavaria

 

Opend 1911

 

Species 529


This zoo is the first zoo world wide aranging it self after the continents of the earth. Proudly calling it self animal park (Tierpark), becourse the animals have large enclosures and using the same net system for its aviaries as the citys olympic stadion invented. On your way through the garden you find rareties like the wood bison, persian fallow deer and silvery gibbon. 

Last visit 2016

Tierpark Hellabrunn

Tierparkstraße 30
D 81543 München

Germany


http://zootierliste.de/zoosmap.php?showzoo=10000689


Phone nr 089-625080

Open minimum 9am-5pm

 

 

Entrance fee

• Adult 18,- Euro
• Child 7,- Euro
• Family*/** 22,-/39.- Euro

*Familt tickets are valid for one parent and his/hers children
**Familt tickets are valid for two parents theire children 

 

Annual Card

• Adult 59,- Euro
• Child 30,- Euro
• Family*/** 59,-/118,- Euro

*Familt cards are valid for one parent and his/hers children
**Familt cards are valid for two parents theire children 


Kids will love to pet the goats at the childrens zoo


History:

Around 1860 a Mr Benedict opened the first public zoo at Königinstraße close to the English Garden. Although it was very popular with the crowds it had to close again in 1865. Oberstleutnant Hermann von Manz was more successful. In 1902 he found suitable grounds for establishing a zoological garden: The “Feßler grounds” that once housed the Lustschlösschen Hellabrunn. Their sheltered location made them perfect for the cause. In order to raise the necessary capital – at least half a million Deutsch Marks – he created the “Society of the Zoological Garden of Munich e.V.” in 1905. The town granted him his request to place the land at his disposal for free and gave him a certificate of eligibility. On 11.11.1906 the land was made available to the society under the condition that they come up with the necessary capital for the development of a zoo within 5 years. On August 1st, 1911 the grand opening of the first Munich Zoo Hellabrunn finally took place. It was first designed and planned by the architect Emanuel von Seidl. The elephant house was finished in 1914 and was one of the few heated houses. Until 1973 it was used to house animals sensitive to cold during the winter. Although the zoo survived the hardship of the First World War it had to close again in 1922. All the animals and mobile fixtures were sold. Munich had lost one of its attractions. In 1925 Kommerzienrat August Baumgartner founded a zoo committee within the „Hilfsbundes der Münchner Einwohnerschaft“ (~ Advocates for the inhabitants of Munich) in order to open a new zoo.  In 1928 the Munich Zoo opened its gates under the management of Heinz Heck. It was put on a solid financial basis with the foundation of the Munich Zoo Hellabrunn AG in 1929. At the same time it was the first Geo-zoo worldwide. Until then the animals were shown according to their zoological taxonomy, for example all primates in one house and all predators in the carnivore house. Heinz Heck wanted to create open grounds like Hagenbeck, in which several animals native to one continent would be kept together. Hence the animals were shown according to their geographical distribution in the continents of Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. This educationally valuable concept stood the test of time and has often been copied. Although the sale of the first stocks was not a huge success the zoo had collected enough money by 1930 to lease the land from the town of Munich for the next 30 years for 600 000 Reich mark.  In the following year Hellabrunn grew to become a zoo of international rank. The number of animals increased continuously and the breeding successes made the name Heck well known with in the scientific community as well as the public. Especially the breeding back of the extinct Aurochs and Tarpan that Heinz Heck undertook with his brother Prof. Dr. Lutz Heck, Berlin Zoo, caused a stir. They cross breed several descendent breeds in order to “bring the extinct animals back to life”. This does not reverse extinction but it gives an impression what the original wild animal looked like. Even then the problem of extinction had been recognised. Hellabrunn became world famous for the captive breeding of the Wisent and the Przewalski horse.Another milestone was the opening of the ape house and the aquarium below in 1936.  But the Second World War laid all other plans to rest. Only a few hundred animals were left due to the enlistment of zoo specialists, bombed houses and stables and the scarcity of fodder. In 1945 Hellabrunn had to start all over for the third time. Through innovation and improvisation the management was able to reopen as the first German zoo after the war. The development between 1945 and 1967 was slow since hardly any public funds were available. In 1967 and 1969 the Predator enclosures were renewed. In 1970 the board of directors requested a general extension plan that was put into practice from 1973 onwards by Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Gribl, who was still member of the architecture firm Peter Lanz at that time. Fundamental changes were for example made by the grand redesign of the park area “Europe” that changed from an area of many small enclosures for different species of deer into a generous habitat for chamois and marmots. A visionary building is the aviary build in 1981. It measures 18 meters in height and an area of 5.000 square meters that is covered by a fine mesh of stainless steel. Inside is an idyllic landscape with a small stream where the birds can fly around freely just like in the wild. Other highlights are the jungle tent for lion, jaguar & co that was build by the architecture firm Kochta in 1995 as well as the turtle house where giant tortoise get along nicely with bull dog ants and leaf eating ants and the jungle house where chimpanzees and gorillas are kept since 2000 in the indoor enclosures on natural substrate. The path of evolution up to the primates can be retraced from the coral reef to the desert terrariums accompanied by large informative signs. 2007 saw the opening of our rebuild Orang Utan enclosure. Ropes on the inside and plenty of climbing fixtures in the outdoor enclosure provide a lot of different possibilities to play and relax. Outside the apes also enjoy the semi-natural floor. This option is new for them. Before that they were only used to tiled floors. This enclosure for Orang Utans also gives the visitors room for beautiful and interesting experiences with the animals. Our centre for animal welfare, nature conservation and the protection of species ("TNA") was also opened in 2007. This information centre introduces the visitors to the worldwide activities of the zoo in these areas. This is done in an interactive way as well as in a cinema with project-related films of Bavarian Broadcasting. The first step of redesignen zoo was taken in 2013, when the giraffe house opened. The great apeas house is renovated in 2015 and so is the elephant house in 2016 and the polar world in 2017. in 1918 the Mühlendorf opens, the new area showin local fauna and farm animals.