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Wilhelmshohe Palace

is a palace located in the Bergpark Wilhelmshohe in Kassel, Germany.As King of Westphalia, Jerome Bonaparte renamed it Napoleonshohe and appointed his Head Chamberlain Heinrich von Blumenthal as its governor, with instructions to supervise extensive renovations.After the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussian King offered the defeated Emperor Napoleon III accommodation there. From 1899 to 1918 Wilhelmshohe was the summer residence of the German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II.In 1918, after the defeat of Germany at the end of World War I, Paul von Hindenburg organized and led the withdrawal and demobilization of the German troops there.The buildings were substantially destroyed during the Second World War.

Bergpark Wilhelmshohe

is a unique park in Kassel, Germany. Art historian Georg Dehio (1850–1932), inspirator of the modern discipline of historic preservation, described the park as "possibly the most grandiose combination of landscape and architecture that the Baroque dared anywhere" ("vielleicht das Grandioseste, was irgendwo der Barock in Verbindung von Architektur und Landschaft gewagt hat.").The area of the park is 2.4 square kilometres (590 acres), making it the largest European hillside park, and second largest park on a mountain slope in the world. Construction of the Bergpark, or "mountain park", began in 1696 and took about 150 years.

Hercules monument

is an important landmark in the German city of Kassel.It is located in the "Bergpark (Mountainpark) Wilhelmshohe", northern Hesse, Germany.Hercules is a copper statue depicting the ancient Greek demigod Heracles.The statue is located at the top of a Pyramid, which stands on top of the Octagon; the statue and the other parts of the monument were constructed at different times. Today "Hercules" refers not only to the statue, but the whole monument, including the Octago and Pyramid. The monument is the highest point in the Wilhelmshohe Bergpark.The monument is located in Bad Wilhelmshohe, on the Eastern ridge of the Habichtswald. It was built in an artificial dell of the Karlsberg (526m above sea level) on the most western and at the same time highest location (515 m) of the line of sight Schloss Wilhelmshohe - Hercules.

Lions Castle

is located in Mountain Park Wilhelmshohe in Kassel, North Hesse , Germany.The artificial castle ruin stands above the castle in the southern part of the mountain parks south of the line of sight and therefore lock Wilhelmshohe - Hercules at about (350 m asl.) on the eastern edge of the high forest hawk .The architectural concept is a built manifesto against the French Revolutionary architecture.Art history, the castle was also one of the first major building in the Gothic Revival groundbreaking in Germany, and influenced by her architectural style number Nachfolgebauten the next 100 years.In 1922, turned Georg Jacoby parts of his film "So are the men" in the castle.In this film had Marlene Dietrich her ​​first small role.

Botanischer Garten Kassel

is a municipal botanical garden located in the Park Schönfeld at Bosestraße 15, Kassel, Hesse, Germany.It is open daily without charge.The garden was first created in 1912 as a school garden, but in 1982 converted into a general green area.Restoration began in 2002, with the aim of gradually re-establishing the garden's 1950s-era features and creating new theme gardens.Current plantings include a rose garden, a medicinal herb garden, and perennials.A cactus house exhibits 300 cacti and succulents.

Museum for Sepulchral Culture

It was opened in 1992, winner is the team Cemetery and Memorial Association (AFD).Director of the museum is the theologian Prof. Dr. Reiner Sorries.The museum includes a two-term former Henschel farm buildings - the shed - and a new building built in 1992 (architect William Kucker ).The name sepulchral culture derives from the Latin "sepulcrum", ie in the original sense of "grave" or "grave".About this real meaning beyond closes Sepulchral all the manifestations associated with the burial of the dead and the associated memory of the deceased.Focus of the museum's permanent exhibition.It shows an area of ​​about 1400 square meters, especially evidence of sepulchral culture of German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present - including coffins and hearses, mourning clothes and jewelry, grave stones, sculptures and everyday objects, with the dying, death and remembrance related. In addition, the museum organizes temporary exhibitions take up the different historical and current aspects of funerary culture artistically or deal with it.The exhibitions are complemented by lectures, meetings, concerts, readings and cabaret.In addition, the museum has a collection of currently around 16 500 images of 15 Century until today, and a reference library with monographs, catalogs, special editions and numerous magazine articles on sepulchral culture.The museum's collection is by French artist Jean-Claude Mondot on the website "Out of Time" displayed.

Hessisches Landes Museum
The zoological collections are created worldwide and have focus on the areas of zoological systematics and zoogeography.Of particular importance are architecturally integrated into the animal house geographical groups as well as many extinct or endangered animal species such as quagga, thylacine and other creatures of the Galapagos Islands. In addition, a complete collection of all land vertebrates occurring in Hesse shown (including rare vagrants, and the last wolf in Hesse).The building of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt at the Peace Square 1 is closed in 2012 due to extensive construction and renovation work.Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt at a place of peace is closed due to reconstruction measures.The reopening is scheduled for 2012 th.

Fridericianum Museum

is a museum in Kassel, Germany. Built in 1779, it is one of the oldest public museums in Europe.The quintennial art festival documenta is centred on the site.The Fridericianum originally housed the state library of Hesse, the art collections of the Hessian landgraves, collections of antiques, weaponry, natural history, astronomy and physics, cork models of antique buildings, and wax figures of historic Hessian landgraves.However, the exhibits were moved into other museums in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the library was heavily damaged in World War II,after which the surviving books were moved into the Kassel University Library.Today the Fridericianum hosts temporary art exhibitions put on by the city of Kassel, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum and the Kunstverein of Kassel, as well as documentary.

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