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Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is the most important city in . 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.
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  • Type: City with 204,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hesse, Germany
  • Also known as: “Cassel”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ottoneum and Kassel Hauptbahnhof.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The in Kassel, Germany was the first theater building built in Germany and is now a museum of natural history.

Railway station
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is a Deutsche Bahn railway station in the city of Kassel, in the state of . Situated in the central borough of Mitte, it is the city's second important railway station after the opening of in 1991; and so it is the only Hauptbahnhof that is not the main station of its city.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The Neue Galerie is an art museum in Kassel in the state of , in Germany. The building was constructed between 1871 and 1877 as a museum for works of the Old Masters.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vorderer Westen and Nord-Holland.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Kassel

Latitude
51.3158° or 51° 18′ 57″ north
Longitude
9.4978° or 9° 29′ 52″ east
Population
204,000
Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)
IATA airport code
KSF
United Nations Location Code
DE KAS
Open location code
9F3F8F8X+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1583294719
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2892518
Wiki­data ID
Q2865
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kassel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kassel”
  • Albanian: “Kaseli”
  • Arabic: “كاسل”
  • Aragonese: “Kassel”
  • Armenian: “Կասել”
  • Arpitan: “Kassel”
  • Asturian: “Kassel”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kassel”
  • Balinese: “Kassel”
  • Bashkir: “Кассель”
  • Basque: “Kassel”
  • Bavarian: “Kassel”
  • Belarusian: “Касель”
  • Belarusian: “Касэль”
  • Bengali: “কাসেল”
  • Breton: “Kassel”
  • Bulgarian: “Касел”
  • Catalan: “Kassel”
  • Cebuano: “Kassel (kapital sa distrito nga gobyerno)”
  • Cebuano: “Kassel”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Kassel”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاسل”
  • Chechen: “Кассель”
  • Chinese: “Kassel”
  • Chinese: “卡塞尔”
  • Chinese: “卡塞爾市”
  • Chinese: “卡瑟爾”
  • Chinese: “卡素”
  • Chuvash: “Кассель”
  • Corsican: “Kassel”
  • Croatian: “Kassel”
  • Czech: “Kassel”
  • Danish: “Kassel”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kassel”
  • Dutch: “Kassel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاسسيل”
  • Esperanto: “Cassel”
  • Esperanto: “Kaselo”
  • Esperanto: “Kassel”
  • Estonian: “Kassel”
  • Finnish: “Kassel”
  • French: “Cassel”
  • French: “Kassel”
  • Friulian: “Kassel”
  • Galician: “Kassel”
  • Georgian: “კასელი”
  • German: “Kassel”
  • German: “Kreisfreie Stadt Kassel”
  • German: “Cassel” (historical)
  • Greek: “Κάσσελ”
  • Gujarati: “કાસેલ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kassel”
  • Hebrew: “קאסל”
  • Hindi: “कसेल”
  • Hungarian: “Cassel”
  • Hungarian: “Kassel”
  • Icelandic: “Kassel”
  • Ido: “Kassel”
  • Indonesian: “Kassel”
  • Interlingua: “Kassel”
  • Interlingue: “Kassel”
  • Irish: “Kassel”
  • Italian: “Kassel”
  • Japanese: “カッセル”
  • Javanese: “Kassel”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಸೆಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кассель”
  • Kirghiz: “Кассель”
  • Kongo: “Kassel”
  • Korean: “카셀”
  • Kurdish: “Kassel”
  • Ladin: “Kassel”
  • Latin: “Cassala”
  • Latin: “Cassella”
  • Latin: “Castellum”
  • Latvian: “Kasele”
  • Ligurian: “Kassel”
  • Limburgan: “Kassel”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaselis”
  • Low German: “Kassel”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kassel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kassel”
  • Macedonian: “Касел”
  • Malagasy: “Kassel”
  • Malay: “Kassel”
  • Malayalam: “കാസ്സെൽ”
  • Maltese: “Kassel”
  • Marathi: “कासेल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kassel”
  • Minangkabau: “Kassel”
  • Moksha: “Кассэль”
  • Narom: “Kassel”
  • Neapolitan: “Kassel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kassel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kassel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kassel”
  • Norwegian: “Kassel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kassel”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Chasell”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kassel”
  • Old High German (ca. 750-1050): “Chasalla [a. 913]”
  • Ossetian: “Кассель”
  • Pampanga: “Kassel”
  • Persian: “کاسل”
  • Picard: “Kassel”
  • Piemontese: “Kassel”
  • Polish: “Kassel”
  • Portuguese: “Kassel”
  • Romanian: “Kassel”
  • Romansh: “Kassel”
  • Russian: “Кассель”
  • Sardinian: “Kassel”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kassel”
  • Scots: “Kassel”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kassel”
  • Serbian: “Kassel”
  • Serbian: “Касел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kassel”
  • Sicilian: “Kassel”
  • Silesian: “Kassel”
  • Sindhi: “ڪاسل”
  • Sinhala: “කැසෙල්”
  • Slovak: “Kassel”
  • Slovenian: “Kassel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاسل”
  • Spanish: “Cassel”
  • Spanish: “Kassel”
  • Swahili: “Kassel”
  • Swedish: “Kassel”
  • Swiss German: “Kassel”
  • Tajik: “Кассел”
  • Tamil: “கஸ்செல்”
  • Tatar: “Кассел”
  • Telugu: “కాసెల్”
  • Thai: “คัสเซิล”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kassel”
  • Tumbuka: “Kassel”
  • Turkish: “Cassel”
  • Turkish: “Kassel”
  • Ukrainian: “Кассель”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kassel”
  • Urdu: “کاسیل”
  • Uzbek: “Kassel”
  • Venetian: “Kassel”
  • Veps: “Kassel‘”
  • Veps: “Kassel’”
  • Vietnamese: “Kassel”
  • Vlaams: “Kassel”
  • Volapük: “Kassel”
  • Walloon: “Kassel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kassel”
  • Welsh: “Kassel”
  • Western Frisian: “Kassel”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیسل”
  • Wolof: “Kassel”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡塞尔市”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡素”
  • Zulu: “Kassel”
  • “Kassel”

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