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The Menagerie^ Schonbrunn 



\ T THE WEST END of Schonbrunn Park 

 * * is the Menagerie or Zoological Garden, a 

 fine collection of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. 

 Altogether there are more than three thousand. 



This collection of animals is the oldest existing 

 one in Europe. It dates back to 1552, when 

 there was a small collection, but not in this part 

 of Vienna. 



Emperor Maximilian II brought the animals 

 and birds to Gatterburg, which was on the site 

 of the present Schonbrunn. 



The present garden was laid out in the time 

 of the Empress Maria Theresa in 1752. 



The centre of the garden was, and is now, the 

 Parrot House, a large octagonal building, but in 

 Maria Theresa's time it was used as a summer- 

 house. Underneath in the basement of the 



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