Kassel is the largest town in the north of Hesse (Nordhessen), Germany, located on the river Fulda, with approximately 200,000 inhabitants and a total area of 107 sq km. Today Kassel provides a lively business world and educational facilities of a high standard as well as an attractive cultural and entertainment world. Kassel promises year long recreation giving you a vision of a city with charm and a promising future.
How to Get There:
Kassel's commercial airport Kassel-Calden, built in 1971, is only about 30 minutes from the city centre. Kassel can also be easily accessed from the Paderborn-Lippstadt regional airport and the international airports at Frankfurt am Main and Hanover via motorways as well as the intercity express and the Eurocity train connection. Kassel’s central location provides good road links to major motorways as well as adjoining main roads. The Intercity Express or Euro-City is an hourly service at the Wilhelmshöhe intercity railway station. The regional services take passengers to the Kulturbahnhof, once a museum cum railway station. The city operates a tram system (streetcar); a Stadtbahn-like system with light rail vehicles running on both main line rail and railroad tracks, called RegioTram. Buses ply through the city.
What to See:
Discover the cultural events plus all you can see and do using the Kassel Card,
which you can buy depending on your duration of stay and the number of users. The Card entitles you to 24-hour or 3-days’ free travel on all forms of public transport within the Kassel Plus area. Fantastic, unique and spellbinding are the words that come to mind when you see the environs in Kassel, the capital of the German Fairy-Tale Route. The Brüder Grimm-Museum is testimony to the prominent fairy tale tellers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Bad Wilhelmshöhe offers first-rate health spa facilities.
Where to Eat:
Kassel has over 170 restaurants for every purse. The recommended eateries are Restaurant Eckstein, Restaurant Gutshof, Gastraum 25, Kaiser Garden, Allee Cafe,
Restaurantfuehrer Kassel, Cassels Brauhaus, Grimms Restaurant, Hanseatenstube and
Hessischer Hof.
Museums:
Museums include: Schloss Wilhelmshöhe; Museum für Sepulkralkultur (the only German Museum for Sepulchral Culture); New Gallery and the Hessisches Landesmuseum (with a world-famous wallpaper collection).
Hotels:
Kassel has 58 hotels of all categories. Prices range from low figures in Pension Westring and Haus Lengen to the much higher in the RAMADA Hotel Kassel City Centre. Other hotels include Best Western Hotel Kurfürst Wilhelm I and InterCityHotel Kassel in the higher price band to Mark Hotel Domus, Hotel Am Sonnenhang, Der Grischäfer and Schloßhotel Wilhelmsthal in the medium price range to Hotel Restaurant "Zum Bismarckturm", Hotel Am Brasselsberg, Hotel Jägerhof and Gasthaus Neu-Holland in the lower price bracket.
