Salzburg Zoo Hellbrunn
Alpine wildlife park on the grounds of a former prince-archbishop's hunting reserve, still funded partly by public sponsorship.
This guide to Salzburg Zoo Hellbrunn traces the ground back to a private hunting park the city's archbishops kept here from the 1600s, ended when a French general had the remaining animals shot dead in December 1800, leaving the site empty for a century and a half. It follows the writer Karl Heinrich Waggerl and a handful of Salzburg citizens who founded an odd little association in 1960, raising subscription money rather than a state grant to buy the first deer, boar and goats and reopen the gates in 1961. By 1976 that private money had run dry, forcing a change nobody in the founding group had planned for.
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