Tourist Highlights

3 Parks - 3 Palaces

Poised to become UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Visitors to Kassel all agree that the city´s biggest attractions are its park landscapes. Set off on a tour of discovery and get to know Europe´s largest hillside park. Other highlights include the Karlsaue Park, a baroque complex not far from the city centre and Wilhelmsthal Palace Park in Calden with its rococo garden.

Schloss Wilhelmshöhe

Tourist Sights

Palace in Karlsaue Park

Karlsaue Park

This garden, which is the oldest of the three Landgrave gardens, was built below the former royal palace outside the medieval city. From Moritzaue, the renaissance pleasure grounds situated on marshland on the River Fulda, Landgrave Karl started building a vast baroque park in 1680.

Herkules

Wilhelmshöhe Bergpark

As Europe’s largest hillside park, the Wilhelmshöhe Berg Park is the city’s main attraction. Here, two separate eras of European garden architecture have been combined to form one harmonious unit – the baroque grounds with the Octagon waterfall flowing down and cascading over stone steps, and an extensive park laid out in the style of English landscape gardens.

Wilhelmsthal Ehrenhof _ Miguletz 1992

Wilhelmsthal Palace Park

From Wilhelmshöhe the road winds across Rasenallee before heading north for about 9km to the village of Calden. Here, visitors can marvel at a magnificent piece of rococo in the middle of Hesse, designed by a French architect.

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Information

kassel tourist

Tourist Information Centre in the Town Hall

Obere Königsstraße 8

Phone:+49(0)561/707707

Fax:+49(0)561/7077169

Opening Times:

Monday to Friday

9am to 6pm

Saturdays

9am to 2pm

Tourist & Health Spa Information

im Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe (Intercity Railway Station)

Phone:+49(0)561/34054 Fax:+49(0)561/315216

Opening Times:

Monday to Friday

9am to 6pm

Saturdays

9am to 1pm