Münster Zoo

Zoo in Münster, Germany

Allwetterzoo Münster

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51°56′47″N 7°35′30″E﻿ / ﻿51.94639°N 7.59167°E﻿ / 51.94639; 7.59167
Slogan| „hautnah“ erleben!
Date opened| 1974
Location| Sentruper Straße 315
48161 Münster, Germany
Land area| 30 hectares (74.1 acres)
No. of animals| 3054 [1]
No. of species| 320 [1]
Annual visitors| 976.032 ( 2013)
Memberships| EAZA,[3] WAZA[4]
Owner| Stadt Münster,
Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten Münster GmbH[2]
Director| Thomas Wilms
Website| www.allwetterzoo.de

The Allwetterzoo Münster is a Zoo in Münster in Westfalen, Germany.

The Zoo origins in the 1875 founded, and 1973 closed Zoologische Garten zu Münster, replaced by the 1974 founded Allwetterzoo Münster, which was built in a tree-rich area close to the lake Aasee.

## Animal numbers

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This table shows the development of animal numbers in the Zoo until 2015

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Datum  | Total  | Mammals  | Birds  | Reptiles  | Amphibia  | Fish  | Invertebrates

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

## Management

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Share of the Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten zu Münster, issued 1. February 1874, signed by Hermann Landois

Until the end of the 1950s was the chairman of the board the official director, but since 1960 the title is Zoo director. Since 1985 is managed by Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten GmbH .

Chairman of the board  | Zoo Directors

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* 1871–1876 Hermann Landois
* 1876–1884 Franz v.Olfers
* 1884–1894 Vormann
* 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 Rincklage
* 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
* since 2016: Thomas Wilms

## Staff numbers

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During 2012 totally 85 persons (inclusive the management) was working in the zoo. From those most (46) worked as Zookeepers, 4 were busy in an education programme, eleven involved in commercial sale section, or in the technical section. Six gardners were tending the plants and six person worked in the management.[5]

## Visitor numbers

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The numbers of visitors are sorted in different years

| Year  | Visitors

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1921/22  | 129.102
1922/23  | 127.739
1924/25  | 137.078
1928/29  | 178.711
1932/33  | 145.405
1936/37  | 178.185
1950  | 199.680
1955  | 327.707
1962  | 470.000
1964  | >500.000
1974  | 1.242.431
1979  | 767.129
| Year  | Visitors

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1984  | 825.096
1989  | 845.997
1994  | 718.127
1999  | 830.903
2003  | 908.447
2004  | 895.200
2005  | 977.324
2006  | 1.031:st337
2007  | 1.018.754
2008  | 950.760
2009  | 991.990
2010  | 871.427
| Year  | Visitors

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2011  | 935.918
2012  | 938.360
2013  | 976.032
2014  | 947.730 (VDZ-Schlüssel)
| 556.305 (gezählt)
2015  | 915.000 (VDZ-Schlüssel)
| 618.000 (gezählt) [6]

## See also

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* List of zoos in Germany

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Allwetterzoo Münster – Zahlen und Fakten" (in German). Retrieved 2015-03-03.
2. ^ "SessionNet | SessionNet Fehlermeldung SessionNet Fehlermeldung".
3. ^ "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. European Association of Zoos and Aquaria. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
4. ^ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
5. ^ "Zahlen und Daten 2013" (PDF) (in German). WESTFÄLISCHER ZOOLOGISCHER GARTEN MÜNSTER GmbH. Archived from the original (PDF, 47 kB) on 2013-05-08. Retrieved 2013-02-22. Januar 2013
6. ^ "Besucherplus im Allwetterzoo Münster - Muensterland.de". Archived from the original on 2016-01-03. Retrieved 2016-01-03.

## External links

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