Walding Zoo in Austria

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Walding Zoo
From left to right: Elephants Mary and Bimbi inside their stable.
From left to right: Elephants Mary and Bimbi inside their stable.
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Local name Tiergarten und Reiterhof Walding
Typezoo
First elephant arrived1971
Last elephant left2014
Address Mursberg 42
Zip-code A-4111
Place Walding
District Urfahr-Umgebung District
StateOberösterreich
Country Austria
Website Website
Related persons
Owner -: Angela Mair
Key People
Zoological department
Elephant department
Elephant consultant 2001-2002: Dan Koehl
Elephant keepers
-2014: Doris Scheftner
-1999: Bianca Brandstätter
Record history
History of updates2022-10-06
Latest document update2022-10-06 09:21:34
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Description

Walding Zoo, located at Mursberg 42, in Walding, Oberösterreich, Austria and the first elephant arrived in 1971. The last elephant left in 2014.

Casualties

1 casualties
  1. 2002: elephant consultant Dan Koehl attacked by Bimbi. Pushed Koehl into a concrete wall Dan Koehl Survived. passed out, treated 2 days for concussion at Linz hospital.

Comments / picturesWalding Zoo in Austria Austria
From left to right: Elephants Bimbi Mary, owner of Walding Zoo Angela Mair, Bianca Brandstätter riding on top of Mary, and right of Mary is Doris Scheftner.

Walding Tiergarten is situated on a hill in Mühlviertel, Upper Austria (Ober-Österreich) close to the town Linz.
It was developed on a former dairy-farm by the present owner Mrs Angela Mairs, step-parents Karl (d. 1988) and Maria Mair (d. 1992).

In the past the two elephants were taken for walks in the nearby forest, but later they started Fighting with each other so much so they can not be controlled anymore, and they were therefore since 1999 left separated in their own enclosures, and could not enymore be taken out for walks. The last elephant Mary, died in 2014. The elephant enclosure was redesigned as Bimbi-Land, where children can interact with animals,and obtain pedagogic information.

References for records about Walding Zoo

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Walding Zoo, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=35. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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