Kassel
Kassel district is a district in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Northeim, Göttingen, Werra-Meißner, Schwalm-Eder, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Höxter. The independent city of Kassel is nearly completely surrounded by the district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 197,000 residents
- Description: district in Hesse, Germany
- Also known as: “Kassel (district)”, “Kreisfreie Stadt Kassel”, and “Landkreis Kassel”
- Neighbors: Kassel
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Railway Station and Ottoneum.
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Railway Station
Railway station
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe is a railway station in the city of Kassel, in the German state of Hesse. It is the city's most important railway station, as it is connected to the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed rail line, with Intercity Express services calling at the station.
Ottoneum
Museum
The Ottoneum in Kassel, Germany was the first theater building built in Germany and is now a museum of natural history.
Kassel Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kassel Hauptbahnhof is a Deutsche Bahn railway station in the city of Kassel, in the German state of Hesse. Situated in the central borough of Mitte, it is the city's second important railway station after the opening of Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe in 1991; and so it is the only Hauptbahnhof that is not the main station of its city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kassel and Vorderer Westen.
Kassel
Photo: Dirk Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kassel is the most important city in North Hesse. It is known around the world for the Documenta exhibitions of contemporary art every five years. The Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe and its water displays are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Kassel
- Category: rural district of Hesse
- Location: Kassel, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Western Frisian—“Kassel” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Districto de Kassel”
- Armenian: “Կասել”
- Azerbaijani: “Kassel”
- Bavarian: “Landkroas Kassel”
- Belarusian: “Касель”
- Belarusian: “Раён Касель”
- Catalan: “Districte de Kassel”
- Cebuano: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Chinese: “卡塞尔县”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Kassel”
- Danish: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Dutch: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Kassel”
- Finnish: “Kasselin piirikunta”
- French: “arrondissement de Cassel”
- French: “Arrondissement de Cassel”
- Georgian: “კასელის რაიონი”
- German: “Kassel”
- German: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Greek: “διαμέρισμα του Κάσσελ”
- Greek: “Κάσσελ (διαμέρισμα)”
- Hebrew: “חבל קאסל”
- Hungarian: “Kassel járás”
- Indonesian: “Kassel”
- Interlingue: “Subdistrict Kassel”
- Italian: “circondario di Kassel”
- Italian: “Circondario di Kassel”
- Japanese: “カッセル郡”
- Kazakh: “Кассель”
- Kurdish: “Kassel”
- Ladin: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Low German: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Malay: “Kassel”
- Northern Frisian: “Kassel (Lönjkris)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kassel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Norwegian: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Persian: “کسل”
- Polish: “Powiat Kassel”
- Portuguese: “Kassel”
- Romanian: “Districtul Kassel”
- Russian: “Кассель”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kassel”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Kassel”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Tatar: “Кассел”
- Turkish: “Landkreis Kassel”
- Ukrainian: “Кассель”
- Uzbek: “Kassel”
- Vietnamese: “Kassel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kassel”
- Western Frisian: “Kassel”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tannenwäldchen and Friedenskirche (Kassel).
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