# Dessau Zoo

- **Country:** Germany
- **Coordinates:** 51.845556, 12.235556
- **Area:** 11 ha
- **Owner:** Town Dessau-Roßlau
- **Opened:** 1958
- **Members:** DTG
- **Location:** Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- **Date Opened:** 1958
- **Num Animals:** 500
- **Num Species:** 120
- **Annual Visitors:** 100

The Dessau Zoo is a municipally owned zoo in Dessau, Germany which was founded in 1958. It is located in a park that surrounds the former mausoleum of the Dukes of Anhalt.

![Photo of Dessau Zoo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Dessau_asv2022-08_img25_Tierpark_und_Mausoleum.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessau_Zoo (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)