Back then in Tilburg: 9 x these animals walked around in the zoo on Bredaseweg - indebuurt Tilburg

You may already know that Tilburg used to have a real zoo. The park, located on the Bredaseweg on the site of the Oude Warande, opened in 1932. The story of the Siberian ground squirrel that still lives in the forest is very well known. But these animals also lived in the zoo. The zoo was a wedding present from Johan Burgers (yes, the one from the Burgers Zoo in Arnhem) to his daughter and her groom. In 1963 the park was taken over by the compan…