Kassel
Kassel is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the north of the state. It was created in 1866 when Prussia annexed the Electorate of Hesse, forming part of the new Province of Hesse-Nassau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Regierungsbezirk with 1,200,000 residents
- Description: administrative subdivision and region of Hesse, Germany
- Also known as: “Kassel (region)” and “Kassel Government Region”
- Neighbors: Lower Franconia, South Hesse, and Thuringia
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schwalm-Eder-Kreis and Wabern station.
Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Public building
Schwalm-Eder-Kreis is a Kreis in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Kassel, Werra-Meißner, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Vogelsberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, and Waldeck-Frankenberg. Schwalm-Eder-Kreis is situated 5 km south of Kassel.
Wabern station
Railway station
Wabern is a railway station in the municipality of Wabern, in the German state of Hesse. It is on the Main to Weser railway from Frankfurt to Kassel. The station is a stop for ICE trains with connections towards Hamburg and Karlsruhe.
Mosenberg airfield
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mosenberg airfield is an aerodrome.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borken and Kalbsburg.
Borken
Town
Photo: Rüdiger Wölk, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Borken is a small town with about 13,000 inhabitants in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany. The town is a former centre for brown coal mining and coal-fired electrical generation in Hesse. Borken is situated 9 km southwest of Kassel.
Kalbsburg
Neighborhood
Photo: AxelHH, Public domain.
Kalbsburg is a neighborhood, which is situated 9 km west of Kassel.
Kassel
- Location: Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Kassel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حكومة منطقة كاسل”
- Armenian: “Կասելի ադմինիստրատիվ օկրուգ”
- Asturian: “Rexón de Kassel”
- Azerbaijani: “Kassel (inzibati dairə)”
- Azerbaijani: “Kassel inzibati dairəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Kassel”
- Basque: “Kassel gobernu-eskualde”
- Basque: “Kassel”
- Belarusian: “адміністрацыйная акруга Касель”
- Belarusian: “Адміністрацыйная акруга Касель”
- Belarusian: “Касэль”
- Catalan: “Regió de Kassel”
- Cebuano: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Chinese: “卡塞尔行政区”
- Czech: “Vládní obvod Kassel”
- Danish: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Dutch: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Esperanto: “Distriktaro Kassel”
- Estonian: “Kasseli ringkond”
- Finnish: “Kasselin hallintopiiri”
- French: “Cassel”
- French: “district de Cassel”
- French: “District de Cassel”
- French: “District de Kassel”
- Galician: “Rexión de Kassel”
- German: “Kassel”
- German: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Greek: “Κάσσελ”
- Hungarian: “Kassel kormányzati körzet”
- Italian: “Distretto governativo di Kassel”
- Japanese: “カッセル県”
- Japanese: “カッセル行政管区”
- Korean: “카셀현”
- Latin: “Provincia Cassala”
- Latin: “Provincia Cassellensis”
- Lombard: “Kassel”
- Low German: “Regerungsbezirk Kassel”
- Luxembourgish: “Regierungsbezierk Kassel”
- Macedonian: “Касел”
- Northern Frisian: “Kassel (Regiiringsdistrikt)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kassel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Kassel”
- Norwegian: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Persian: “کاسل”
- Polish: “Rejencja Kassel”
- Portuguese: “Kassel”
- Romanian: “Kassel”
- Russian: “Административный округ Кассель”
- Russian: “Кассель”
- Slovak: “Kassel”
- Slovenian: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Slovenian: “Vladni okraj Kassel”
- Spanish: “Region de Kassel”
- Spanish: “Región de Kassel”
- Swedish: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Tatar: “Кассел”
- Turkish: “Regierungsbezirk Kassel”
- Ukrainian: “Кассель”
- Venetian: “Kassel”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Harler Berg and Weinberg.
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