Tourist Highlights
Tourist Sights
3 Parks - 3 Palaces
Wilhelmshöhe - Karlsaue - Wilhelmsthal
Tourist Sights
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.
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe - Weißensteinflügel
The style transformation to classic stucco work on walls and ceilings, furniture in the Empire/Louis XVI style and marble sculptures based on antique originals is a stark contrast to the baroque era and bears the stamp of noble clients.
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 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.
Information
Tourist Information Centre in the Town Hall
Obere Königsstraße 8
Phone:+49(0)561/707707
Fax:+49(0)561/7077169
info@kassel-marketing.de
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 info@kassel-marketing.de
Opening Times:
Monday to Friday
9am to 6pm
Saturdays
9am to 2pm