Zoo Aschersleben, Animal park in Aschersleben, Germany

Zoo Aschersleben is a zoological park featuring separate habitats for primates, reptiles, and native German animal species distributed across its grounds. The layout allows visitors to move through different environment types at their own pace.

Zoo Aschersleben was founded in 1973 as a Heimattierpark in the Alte Burg recreation area in the southwest of the city. After the political changes of 1989 many enclosures were modernised and rebuilt, including a large ocelot enclosure and a walk-in aviary in 1997 and a 500 m² Amur leopard enclosure in 1999. The 2,000 m² outdoor enclosure for Siberian tigers followed in 2004.

The zoo has run a Zooschule since 2003, where school classes hold biology lessons on the grounds. A support association, the Zoofreunde Aschersleben e. V., founded in 1992, backs the zoo's work. The zoo also takes part in the European breeding programme for Diana monkeys, salt cats and Amur leopards.

The grounds are hilly and partly wooded, and the path to the planetarium is lined with a scale model of the solar system, so allow time to walk it. The last remains of Aschersleben Castle stand within the site. Sturdy shoes help on the slopes.

The zoo's grounds enclose the last remains of Aschersleben Castle, now fenced off and used as an enclosure for the zoo's owls. A scale model of the solar system runs along the path to the planetarium, which has stood inside the zoo since 1976.