Tourist attractions Kassel

During the 18C, the original Baroque park was turned into an English garden containing temples, pavilions, grottoes and artificial ruins, where the Castle of Löwenburg , a fantastic ruin, best expresses the taste for Romantic sentimentalism of the t..

The museum has collections ranging from prehistory to the decorative arts. It also contains a physics and astronomy cabinet (ancient instruments) and the German Wallpaper Museum (600 items).

The most frequently visited part of this park, laid out in the 18C on the banks of the Fulda, is the sloping garden below the Schöne Aussicht terrace. Note the Orangery , which houses the Astronomy Museum and Planetarium with their magnificent col..

This Rococo edifice surrounded by a park in the English style was built by François de Cuvilliés. Interior decoration in the then-current style, with fine panelling, elegant furniture, Chinese porcelain and a gallery of beauties by J.H. Tischbein the..

The town hall's main façade, typical of the Weser Renaissance style, is decorated with scrolls, pyramids and gables ornamented with statues.

The castle, a Classical-style building, houses Kassel's national art collections. The Antiquities section (Greek, Roman and Eyptian art) and Old Masters Gallery (Cranach the Elder, Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian) contain many remarkable works. Also..

The church's octagonal tower dominates the steeply sloping roof. The interior was turned into a Gothic hall at the end of the 15C. Note Wilhelm of Brunswick's tomb, his son's epitaph and a christening font from the 14C.