Tierpark Wittenberg, zoo in Germany

Tierpark Wittenberg is a zoo on Juristenstraße at the edge of Lutherstadt Wittenberg's old town. Its roughly 76 species include several hundred animals, with a focus on primates such as golden-headed lion tamaries, ring-tailed lemurs, pygmy marmosets and Liszt monkeys. A former casemate houses an aquarium devoted to the fish of the Elbe, Elster and Baltic, and there is a petting zoo with guinea pigs and goats.

Animal keeping began in 1928, when a commission redeveloped the abandoned fortifications into a promenade with enclosures for ravens, waterfowl and Heidschnucken sheep; Halle Zoo lent animals. After the Second World War, private breeders revived the tradition on today's site, and the park was officially refounded as a petting zoo in 1967. The city council approved an expansion in 1974, merging adjacent allotment gardens; since 2002 the support association has coordinated the park.

The petting zoo with guinea pigs and goats continues a tradition begun in 1967, when private breeders refounded the site as a Streichelzoo. The keeping of small primates, a focus since the 1970s, is still visible today in the gold-headed lion tamarins, ring-tailed lemurs, pygmy marmosets and Liszt monkeys.

The zoo sits on Juristenstraße at the edge of the old town, on ground once occupied by the city's dismantled fortifications. The aquarium occupies a former casemate, so part of the visit is indoors. The grounds are run by a support association (Förderverein) that has coordinated the park since 2002.

The aquarium occupies a former casemate of the old fortifications. It is the only facility in Saxony-Anhalt devoted to the fish of the region, showing species of the Elbe, the Elster and the Baltic Sea, including a small catshark, in cold-water tanks set up to resemble their habitats. Amphibians and invertebrates are also on display.