Tiergarten Schonbrunn

The Tiergarten Schonbrunn in the park of Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna's 13th district of Hietzing changed into founded in 1752 by means of the Habsburgs and is the oldest existing zoo inside the global. He skilled numerous renewals and extensions. Director of the zoo in view that 2007, the zoologist Dagmar Schratter. In Anthony Sheridan's zoo rating the zoo was awarded 5 times in a row as the first rate European zoo.

Franz Stephan of Lorraine, who had been elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1745 as Franz I, commissioned Jean Nicolas Jadot de Ville-Issey, additionally from Lorraine, to design a menagerie in the park of the new Habsburg Lorraine summer house in Schonbrunn. In the summer time of 1752, this became occupied after about three hundred and 65 days of creation with animals and offered to traffic. Designed as a breakfast room and salon octagonal pavilion within the center of the complicated turned into completed in 1759. It continues to be the ancient centerpiece of the Tiergarten. It has been used as a restaurant due to the fact 1949.