Art, culture and fairy tales
Culture has many faces. Kassel's landmark, the Herkules, is one of them. He overlooks Europe's biggest mountain park in Wilhelmshöhe,
an UNESCO world heritage. The castle and the historical landscape garden at his feet build a synthesis of the arts and are rightly a tourist magnet.
Less famous, but equally beautiful, is the baroque Orangerie with the spacious Karlsaue right in the middle of the city. Castle Wilhelmsthal in Calden
is said to be a masterpiece of rococo art. Together with the mountain park and the Karlsaue, it builds a triumvirate of landgrave-Hesse castle parks.
There is hardly any other city with such a comparable concentration of museums. The collection of antiques 'Alte Meister' from Dürer to Tizian is world-famous.
olely Rembrandt's Saskia is worth visiting Castle Wilhelmshöhe. The facets of this town and region are going from the technology museum over the cultural heritage
of the Huguenots to the gallery of comic art and the ecomuseum.
Kassel is in the heart of the German 'Fairy Tale Road' and the whole region is scene of the Grimm fairy tales, for example with 'Dornräschens Sababurg' and 'Rapunzels
Trendelburg'. The 'Grimmwelt' Kassel, a museum world of experience, is honouring the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and is transferring their life and work into the present time.
The Parthenon of Books - documenta 14
World cultural heritage - Mountain park, Herkules and cascades
Man walking to the sky - documenta 9
Grand - Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
Ready for the stage - Staatstheater Kassel
Portrait Gallery - Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
Pickaxe - documenta 7
Close to the City - Karlsaue Park
Artistry - Fridericianum Kassel
Tourist attraction - Castle Waldeck by the 'Edersee'
Cabinet of astronomy and physics
Links - Culture
Glamorous shopping in the Königsgalerie
Everything fresh at the market stalls
Break in the Treppenstraße
Town Hall - Hann. Münden
Breakfast in front of the market hall
Strolling in Hann. Münden
