• Animal pens open any time to visit, but feeding is left to the center's animal team and volunteers, so keep snacks in the bag
• Café hours are shorter: Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5:30pm and Sunday from 2pm, closed Monday and Saturday, and only from 2pm during school holidays
• Drop-in wood workshop on Tuesday to Friday afternoons (until 9pm on Wednesdays), with wood and screws sold at cost and machine use charged extra

GZ Bachwiesen is one of the city's community centers. Donkeys, ponies, goats, guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens live in pens that families can walk up to at any time, though visitors are asked not to feed them.

Inside, a café serves homemade cake and syrup for kids, and the wood workshop lets children build their own projects with staff showing them the machines, no course or sign-up needed.