Münster Zoo

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

Allwetterzoo Münster
Entrance
51°56′47″N 7°35′30″E
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,[2] WAZA[3]
Owner	Stadt Münster, Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten Münster GmbH[4]
Director	Thomas Wilms
Website	www.allwetterzoo.de

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

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

^[1]

Datum	Total		Mammals		Birds		Reptiles		Amphibia		Fish		Invertebrates
	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

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
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

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

The numbers of visitors are sorted in different years

Year Visitors 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 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 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

• List of zoos in Germany