Lainzer Tiergarten

The Lainzer Tiergarten is a 24.50 km² wildlife maintain within the southwest nook of Vienna, Austria, 80% of it being protected in wooded area. It dates back to 1561, while Ferdinand I of Austria created it as a fenced-in hunting ground for his circle of relatives to apply. Since 1919, it has been open to the general public.

Its call consists of its region by way of the Lainz district of Vienna's 13th District, and Tiergarten, which means that zoo. Emperor Ferdinand I created the Lainzer Tiergarten in 1561. He had wood fence constructed to enclose a place that he ought to use as a private looking maintain. In 1781, a stone wall replaced the wooden fence. After the autumn of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrian government d the grounds a public nature preserve, even though among 1940 and 1955, the entire grounds had been closed to the general public. Until 1973 access to the maintain required the fee of an admission charge. Since then admission is free.