Zoo Krefeld

Krefelder Zoo
Uerdinger Straße 377
D 47800 Krefeld

Open minimum 9am-5pm, closed 25th december

Entrance fee

• Adult 15,- Euro
• Child 8,50 Euro
• Familly */** 30,-/39,- Euro

Annual Card (Please remember picture ID when showing the Annual card)

• Adult 50,- Euro
• Child 28,- Euro
• Familly */** 99,-/ 125,- Euro

**Family card is valid for 2 adults and up to 4 children

There are several daily feeding shows, for the time please ask at the till station. Ki-ds will love the petting zoo.

 

Chronic:
 

• 22. Mai 1938: Mayor Dr. Alois Heuyng opens the " Krefeld zoo " as a teaching facility for the youth on the grounds of Grotenburg park. The zoo covers about half of the 9 -hectare park . 100 mostly native species of animals are shown in 40 exhibits. The entrance fee is 10 Pfennig for children, for adults 20 Pfennig. Heinrich Janssen, Director of Education and Director of the former Natural History, becoms the first Director of the zoo
• 1939-1945: In the second World War some bombs and shells  hit. Although only two badgers and a doe dies, but many enclosures and fences are destroyed, so that most animals can escape. Therefor the he wolves must be killed.
• 1951: Dr. Günter Voss is appointedas new director and expands the zoo on the entire 9 ha. Focus is on the domestic and European wildlife.
• 1959: Dr. Walter Encke took over the management of the zoo . His concern is particularly suitable to care for those animals that are endangered and of which science know little how to bred  and on this way prevent the extinction of the a species. Especially species from South America are shown.
• 1960: The first cheetahs in Europe are bred
• 1962: The snow leopard Nuschka is acquired and forms the basis for today successful breeding of these animals.
• 1961-1964: The outdoor enclosure for baboons , penguins and seals are built as well as the lion house.
• 1969: Coinciding with the Frankfurt Zoo succeed the first breeding of maned wolves.
• 1971: The " Animal Park is renamed" Zoo "because he is now also elephants, rhinos and orangutans. 300,000 visitors are coming for the first time.
• 1974: Probably for the second time ever in a zoo a Jaguarundis is born. The breeding is long continued successfully as the only one in Germany . There is a new cheetah enclosure next to the new for lynx, so is a little South American house is opened.
• 1.7.1975: The groundbreaking Tropical House for apes opens
• 1983: For the first time in Europe two aardwolf pups are reared from theire mother at a zoo
• 1986: First offspring of Nine-banded armadillos
• 1989: The among others with the funds from the Gehlen Foundation built bird tropical hall opens and leads to great breeding success with bee-eaters and Egyptian plovers.
• 1996/1997: Dr. Vogt is the new director. The in Europe unique breeding success with Goodfellow tree kangaroos beginns with Summer and Bud from San Diego. The studbook is led from 2003 by Dr. Dressen
• 1998: Opening of the rainforest house
• 2003: Dr. Wolfgang Dressen takes over the management of the zoo
• 2004: The new Jaguar outdoor enclosure is inaugurated by by the male Jackson is jumping against the glass wall.
• 2005: On the new outdoor facility for the Tigers, Sutera and Beludru with their offspring Ratu Raja feel very well . As of July, the zoo is its own gGmbH with the participation of the zoo friends of Krefeld. Managing Director is Dr. Wolfgang Dressen. The smooth-fronted caiman breed for the first time.
• 2006: Davu is the in the NRW first born black rhino
• 2008: The second is Thabo
• 2010: Opening of the butterfly jungle and its front building. A redesign of the entrance area with the Zooshop opens
• 2011: Construction of the Snowy Owl aviary.
• 2012:  Opening of the Gorilla garden.
• 2013: Construction of the Penguin enclosure