22 Sights in Kassel, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Kassel, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 22 sights are available in Kassel, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Kassel1. Die Rampe
The ramp is a memorial by the German artist E. R. Nele, which commemorates the deportation and extermination of European Jews during the Nazi era. In the Nazi extermination camps, "ramp" was the name of the platform to which the Jews were driven out of the wagons of the deportation trains. The installation was inaugurated on 8 May 1985, forty years after the end of the Second World War, on the grounds of what was then the University of Kassel and is now the University of Kassel. The location was also chosen because it was the site of the former Henschel site, where up to 6,000 forced laborers were employed during the war years.
2. New Gallery
The Neue Galerie is an art museum in Kassel in the state of Hesse, in Germany. The building was constructed between 1871 and 1877 as a museum for works of the Old Masters. The building was damaged and burned out on 22 October 1943 in a devastating air raid carried out on the orders of Winston Churchill. The 60 most important works were brought to Vienna, and were returned in 1956. The building and large parts of the collection were lost. The museum was reopened with its present name in 1976, and a large renovation was completed in 2011.
3. Großes Gewächshaus
The Great Greenhouse is located in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel and was built in 1822/23 by the court architect Johann Conrad Bromeis under Elector Wilhelm II for the cultivation of precious exotic plants. The original dome-like central building was later replaced by a more massive palm house. The filigree iron-and-glass construction took a pioneering position in Germany. In the large greenhouse, some historical plants are kept. It is managed by the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel and can be visited from the 1st Advent to May.
4. Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a landscape park in Kassel, Germany. The area of the park is 2.4 square kilometres, making it the largest European hillside park, and second largest park on a hill slope in the world. Construction of the Bergpark, or "mountain park", began in 1689 at the behest of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and took about 150 years. The park is open to the public today. Since 2013, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its monumental Baroque architecture and its unique fountains and water features.
5. Martinskirche
St Martin's Church is a Protestant parish church in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. It is also the preaching-church of the bishop of the Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck. It is in the Gothic style and was begun in 1364 and completed in 1462, dedicated to St. Martin of Tours. It became a Protestant church in 1524, when Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse converted to Protestantism. From the 16th century until the end of the 18th century it was the burial place for the landgraves of Hesse.
6. Obelisk
The Obelisk is a monument designed for documenta 14 by Nigerian-American artist Olu Oguibe. In June 2017, it was erected at Kassel's Königsplatz; since April 2019, the obelisk has been located in Treppenstraße. The 16.20 m high monument entitled The Strangers and Refugees Monument bears the inscription "I was a stranger and you sheltered me", a quote from the Gospel of Matthew, in the four languages most commonly spoken in Kassel Arabic, German, English and Turkish.
7. Grimmwelt
The Grimmwelt Kassel is an exhibition house for the works, the work and life of the Brothers Grimm. The exhibition house offers interactive presentations for the German dictionary, the children's and household fairy tales as well as the life of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It is divided into 25 areas that are named with words from the German dictionary. In addition, the grim world shows changing special exhibitions.
8. Abendtreffen an der Lichtung
The Artist's Necropolis is a cemetery, a park and a work of art in public space with a hiking trail in the area of the Harleshausen district of Kassel. The necropolis was created by documenta artists who committed themselves in their wills to be buried there during their lifetime. With it, the documenta artist Harry Kramer initiated a new form of expression of art in public space.
9. Museum für Sepulkralkultur
The Museum of Sepulchral Culture is a special museum of cultural history on Weinbergstraße in Kassel, Germany. Opened in 1992, the Museum of Sepulchral Culture is dedicated to the topics of dying, death, burial, mourning and remembrance. The sponsor is the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e. V. It is part of the Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes.
10. Wimmelbrunnen
The Wimmel monument in the Kassel Fürstengarten is an unification monument, which was designed by the Kassel sculptor Karl Begas. The Obelisk inaugurated on May 10, 1898 is reminiscent of the German unification of 1871. The monument is named after the monument. Until 1965 it stood centrally on today's Brüder-Grimm-Platz at the gateway to the downtown Kassel.
11. Blue Dancer
Blue Dancer is a light sculpture by the Japanese artist Kazuo Katase, which is located on the east side of the Walter Lübcke Bridge, parallel to the bridge, in Kassel – now permanent. The artwork connects the districts of Mitte and Unterneustadt and consists of a blue-lit crossbar with two bucket-shaped structures located below a rope.
12. Man walking to the sky
Man walking to the sky is a sculpture by the American artist Jonathan Borofsky. The figure stands on the forecourt of the Kulturbahnhof Kassel. The "Himmelsstürmer", as the sculpture is called by the citizens of Kassel, was designed by Borofsky for documenta IX in 1992. The production costs amounted to about 70,000 Deutschmarks.
13. Ich
An ego monument is a sculpture that was first erected in the city of Frankfurt am Main. Since March 24, 2005, the work of the artist Hans Traxler in collaboration with the stonemason Reiner Uhl has been on display in the Oberrad district, on the banks of the Main between Rudererdorf and Gerbermühle in Frankfurt's green belt.
14. Lutherkirche
Lutherkirche named after Martin Luther in downtown Kassel is the highest building in the city at 76 meters. The Evangelical Church inaugurated in 1897 was badly damaged in the Second World War and then removed to the tower. In 1970 a new building was built in the immediate vicinity.
15. Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe is a Neoclassical palace located in Bad Wilhelmshöhe, a part of Kassel, Germany. It was built for Landgrave Wilhelm (William) IX of Hesse in the late 18th century. Emperor Wilhelm II made extensive use of it as a summer residence and personal retreat.
16. Rahmenbau
Frame Building or Landscape in the Dia is a work of art by the former architectural and artist group Haus-Rucker-Co. The installation was designed in 1977 for documenta 6 in Kassel and has since stood on the east side of Friedrichsplatz above the Karlsaue and the Orangery.
17. Fridericianum
The Fridericianum is a museum in Kassel, Germany. Built in 1779, it is one of the oldest public museums in Europe. Since 1955 the quinquennial art festival documenta has been centred on the site, with some artworks displayed on Friedrichsplatz, in front of the building.
18. Orangerie
The Orangerie is an orangery in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. It was built under Landgrave Charles between 1703 and 1711. Since then, it forms the northern corner of the Karlsaue park. Today it is used as an astronomy and physical cabinet.
19. Karlsaue
The Karlsaue Park is a public and inner-city park of 1.50 km2 (0.58 sq mi) in Kassel. It was redesigned as a landscape garden in 1785 and consists of a mixture of visible Baroque garden elements and arranged “natural areas”.
20. Apollo-Brunnen
The Renthofbrunnen is a fountain built around the year 1600 on the outer façade of the Renthof in Kassel, Germany. Listed as a historical monument from the Renaissance era, it is the oldest surviving fountain in the city.
21. Versöhnungskirche Kassel
The Evangelical Church of the Reconciliation on Bossental in Kassel is the smallest municipality in the city church district of the North Hessian city. It celebrated its 50th anniversary at the end of 2017.
22. Alteburg
The Alteburg is a Celtic settlement in the area of Biebergemünd in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse, Germany. It towers over the Kasselgrund 3.5 kilometres south of Biebergemünd-Kassel on the Hoppesberg.
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