Gera Zoo

Welcome to Gera Zoo

The Gera Zoo, founded in 1962, is located in the middle of the city forest. On a 20 hectare area live here about 500 animals in about 80 species, which are mainly native to the northern hemisphere. In addition to the predominantly native animals, exotic animals also live in the park. The heraldic animal of the city of Gera, the lion, is kept in the forest zoo as well as Chinese leopards. The walk-in enclosure for Barbary macaques is very popular with visitors. Here you have the opportunity to participate in the family life of the animals without disturbing bars. The farm integrated into the forest zoo is particularly popular with children. In addition to typical farm animals such as chickens and ducks, old domestic breeds such as the Thuringian Forest goat, the Rhön sheep and Bulgarian longhaired goats live here. But also attractive dwarf zebus or cute mini Shetland ponies delight the visitors. A special feature of the Gera Zoo is its park railway. Opened as a pioneer railway in 1975, it now carries around 35,000 passengers a year on a track gauge of 600 millimetres. The 0.8-kilometre-long track runs from Martinsgrund station past a reservoir created during the construction of the railway and over two bridges to Wolfsgehege (now Wildkatze) station. It overcomes a gradient of 2.9%.

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