(Text Page) Die Entwicklung des Hauses Carl Kagenbeck.

• Main Authors: Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark, Hermann's Erben
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark 1935
• Subjects: esquimaux; inuit; sami
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Date estimated. Color. Date estimated. The Tierpark Hagenbeck is a zoo started iin Stellingen, a quarter in Hamburg, Germany. The collection began in 1863 with animals that belonged to Carl Hagenbeck Sr. (1810–1887), a fishmonger who became an amateur animal collector. The park itself was founded by Carl Hagenbeck Jr. in 1907. It is known for being the first zoo to use open enclosures surrounded by moats, rather than barred cages, to better approximate animals' natural environments. Among his collections, however, were also human beings whom he exhibited in "human zoos". Hagenbeck decided to exhibit Samoan and Sami people (Laplanders) as "purely natural" populations. The Sami were presented with their tents, weapons, and sleds, beside a group of reindeer. In 1874, Hagenbeck opened a zoo facility in Hamburg, called Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark, while he continued exhibiting humans. In 1876, he began exhibiting Nubians all across Europe. He also dispatched an agent to Labrador to secure a number of "Esquimaux" (Inuit) from the settlement of Hebron; these Inuit were exhibited in the Hamburg Tierpark. In 1913, he designed the first monkey-rock exhibit, in this case an artificial crag with a 16-foot (4.9 m) moat. The rock (Item 26 on the map) was populated by around 200 hamadryas baboons. In World War II bombing destroyed the original zoo, but it was rebuilt and is still operated by the Hagenbeck family. (Wikipedia).