Tierpark Hamm, Zoo in Hamm, Germany

Tierpark Hamm is a zoo in the south of Hamm, Westphalia. In 2025 it keeps around 400 animals of 60 species, with hoofed animals such as eland, nilgai, blackbuck and zebra, and domestic breeds including yak, Bactrian camel, alpaca and four-horned sheep. Newer buildings are the Madagascar house (2023), the mandrill house and an Africa aviary (2024).

Bookbinder Fritz Vogel founded the Tier- und Pflanzengarten association in 1933; the zoo opened in 1934 in the Südenstadtpark with pheasants, guinea pigs and budgerigars, drawing about 100,000 visitors a year. A 1944 air raid on the neighbouring marshalling yard destroyed it, and Vogel died as a soldier in the war. The association was refounded in 1949 and a new zoo without a botanical section opened in 1951.

The zoo's name goes back to the Tier- und Pflanzengarten association founded in 1933 by the bookbinder Fritz Vogel, which had 6,000 members and worked as a citizens' movement in Hamm. In the 1930s the Heessener Waldbühne performed at the Kurhaus Hamm as part of the park's entertainment programme. Since 2024 a "Artenschutzeuro" supports conservation projects; 10,000 € were donated in 2023.

The zoo lies in the south of Hamm, in the Südenstadtpark the city made available in 1934. The grounds were expanded and modernised after 2020 with 12 million euros, adding a playground (2020), the Madagascar house (2023), the mandrill house and an Africa aviary (2024). The former natural history museum and lemur house were demolished in summer 2022; new buildings with catering and an indoor playground are planned there.

The zoo keeps a pair of Bornean gibbons, Franz and Franziska, who came from Singapore Zoo in the 1970s via several detours; this species is shown in very few European zoos. It also breeds fossas from Madagascar, threatened by large-scale deforestation, and in August 2008 five Siberian tigers were born here, one named Hammlet.