Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Kassel, Germany

The armoury in Kassel was planned between 1581 and 1583 under the reign of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel by Count Rochus zu Lynar and Christoph Müller and built in the Renaissance style.

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The Renthof Fountain is a fountain built around the year 1600 on the outer façade of the Renthof in Kassel. The listed monument from the Renaissance era is the oldest surviving fountain in the city.

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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 permanently. The artwork connects the districts of Mitte and Unterneustadt and consists of a blue illuminated crossbar with two bucket-shaped structures underneath a rope.

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The Pickaxe is a steel sculpture by the Swedish-American Pop Art artist Claes Oldenburg in Kassel on the Hiroshima bank on the Auedamm on the Fulda River.

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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.

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Rahmenbau oder Landschaft im Dia is a work of art by the former architect 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.

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The Ottoneum in Kassel, Germany was the first theater building built in Germany and is now a museum of natural history.

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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.

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The Karlskirche in Kassel is a Protestant church built by Paul du Ry in 1710 for the local Huguenot community.

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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.

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A Ego-Monument is a sculpture that was erected for the first time in the city of Frankfurt am Main. The work of the artist Hans Traxler in collaboration with the stonemason Reiner Uhl has been on display since 24 March 2005 in the Oberrad district, in the Mainuferanlage between Rudererdorf and Gerbermühle in Frankfurt's green belt.

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The Hessian State Museum is a local history museum located in Kassel, Germany. The collection ranges from the Paleolithic Age to the present. The museum is also home to the German Wallpaper Museum.

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The Wimmel Monument in Kassel's Fürstengarten is a monument to unification designed by the Kassel sculptor Karl Begas. The obelisk, which was inaugurated on May 10, 1898, commemorates the German unification of 1871 and is named after the founders of the monument. Until 1965, it stood centrally on today's Brüder-Grimm-Platz at the gateway to Kassel's city centre.

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The Grimm World Kassel is an exhibition house on the works, work and life of the Brothers Grimm. The exhibition house offers interactive presentations on the German Dictionary, children's and household fairy tales, and the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It is divided into 25 areas, which are named with words from the German dictionary. In addition, the Grimm World shows changing special exhibitions.

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The Museum of Sepulchral Culture is a special cultural history museum on Weinbergstraße in Kassel, Germany. The Museum of Sepulchral Culture, which opened in 1992, is dedicated to the topics of dying, death, burial, mourning and commemoration. The sponsor is the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e. V. It belongs to the Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes.

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