Tiergarten Schönbrunn

Vienna, Austria

About Tiergarten Schönbrunn

The history of Tiergarten Schönbrunn goes back to Empress Maria Theresia and her husband Franz Stephan von Lothringen (Franz I).

In 1745, Franz I commissioned the architect Jean Nicholas Jadot der Ville-Issey, to design a menagerie in the park of Schönbrunn, the new Habsburg-Lothringen summer residence.

The facility consisted of 12 enclosures with equally sized animal houses. In the summer of 1752, after a one-year construction period, the animals were brought to the zoo and presented to the public.

The octagonal pavilion in the center of the facility, designed as a breakfast room and salon,was only completed in 1759. Even today, this pavilion remains the zoo’s historical centerpiece.

Tiergarten Schönbrunn is the oldest zoo in the world!

Official website: www.zoovienna.at

Giant pandas at Tiergarten Schönbrunn

In 1991 the Austrian minister of economics, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel, would like to see giant pandas in Vienna. He starts to talk about it with several chinese high-ranking diplomats.
On September 20, 2002 the chinese Primeminister Zhu Rongji visited Vienna. He was bringing good news to Bundeskanzler Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel and Zoo Director Dr. Helmut Pechlaner. Tiergarten Schönbrunn would receive a breeding couple of giant pandas.

On March 14, 2003 a young pair of pandas, Yang Yang & Long Hui, were transferred from China to Tiergarten Schönbrunn.

The animals were on loan to the Republic of Austria by the People’s Republic of China for a period of 10 years.  This loan has been renewed in 2013.

Current Giant Pandas

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Tiergarten Schönbrunn

Yang Yang & Long Hui have mated

2016-04-08

The Giant Pandas at Tiergarten Schönbrunn / Zoo Vienna are full of spring feelings: Yang Yang and Long Hui have mated multiple times on March 23, 2016. Tiergarten Schönbrunn is the only European zoos where these endangered bears have reproduced naturally. “The mating season for pandas is only once a year and that for a […]

Fu Bao arrived home

2015-11-07

Fu Bao arrived in his new home, the CCRCGP Du Jiang Yan Base, on November 7, 2015. He is the third giant panda cub born in Vienna to return to China. Fu Bao is the first Austrian born panda to live at the CCRCGP Du Jiang Yan Base. The staff of the panda base and […]

Fu Bao is ready to return home

2015-10-27

Fu Bao is ready for a new stage in his life. The young panda of 55 kilogram will leave his birth place Tiergarten Schönbrunn / Zoo Vienna and return to China on November 6. Yang Yang & Long Hui’s third son will fly with Austrian Airlines to Amsterdam, from where he will fly to Chengdu […]

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Fu Bao

2014-08-14

Fu Bao celebrated his first birthday at Tiergarten Schönbrunn / Zoo Vienna on August 14. But when it comes to a panda birthday, you need to have some patience… Little Fu Bao made his fans wait until he ended his morning sleep at 1 pm. His keepers then brought out his presents filled with carrots […]

Fu Bao’s first day outside

2014-03-12

A big step in the life of a small panda cub at Tiergarten Schönbrunn / Zoo Vienna: After seven months, Fu Bao went outside for the first time with hus mother Yang Yang and he started to climb for the first time in the outside exhibit. „Everything is new for Fu Bao and that makes […]

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Visitor Information

Tiergarten Schönbrunn / Zoo Vienna is open daily from 9 a.m. – 365 days a year – also on public holidays. Closing time varies according to the seasons and is between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The ticket office closes 30 minutes before closing time – this is also the latest entry time for the zoo.