The Gardelegen zoo has been located on the northern city wall since the GDR era, founded when every city still had a small zoo as a cultural facility. Even though bears moved into a kennel after the fall of the Wall, the enclosure has been steadily going downhill ever since. The row of enclosures begins at the parking lot ´Am Burgwall´ with a fallow deer enclosure and continues with various sheep and goats to the bare aviary row with ornamental fowl.