Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The restaurant ‘Pizza Mia Da Carmelo‘ at Hann. Münden, Germany can be found near the beginning of the pedestrian zone in the Lange Straße – on the side with the Rotunde. It is inside a building that has seen continuously changing usages during the last years. It was the Turkish restaurant Lokanta and afterwards the local Subway sandwich restaurant. Now a friendly guy with Italian roots sells pizza there.
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If you need some relaxation at Kassel, Germany then the Kurhessentherme could be your place of choice. It is a spa and sauna built in exotic Asian style. It is located in the city quarter Wilhelmshöhe and is close to the lower end of the famous Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe.
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Schloß Wilhelmshöhe is a castle in neo-classical style located in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe at Kassel, Germany. It was built for William I between 1786 and 1789 on the grounds of a former cloister and houses today art museums – including the old masters gallery.
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In 1792 a new item was added to the water games in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe at Kassel, Germany: following plans of Heinrich Christoph Jussow (after whom the temple next to the great fountain is named) an aqueduct with 14 arches was built. At the end the water is falling down 43 meters into wreckage of the aqueduct. Continue reading “Aquädukt”
The Teufelsbrücke or devils bridge is a bent pedestrian bridge in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe at Kassel, Germany. It was first a wooden bridge that was replaced in 1826 by a metal one created by local company Hentschel. It is the third location of the water games and the water falls ten meters down into the Höllenteich (lake of hell). Continue reading “Teufelsbrücke”
The Löwenburg (lions castle) is an artificial castle ruin within the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe at Kassel, Germany. It was built in neo-Gothic style from 1793 on and was the private retreat and later burial place of William I, landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Its original name was Felsenburg (cliff or rock castle).
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The Steinhöfer Wasserfall at Kassel, Germany is an artificial waterfall and the second element of the water games at the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe – after the cascades underneath the Herkules monument. It was finished in 1793 following plans of Karl Friedrich Steinhofer.
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The Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a 2.4 square kilometers large vast landscape garden at a mountain belonging to the Habichtswald. It is located at the city quarter Wilhelmshöhe of Kassel, Germany. The Bergpark is designed in the style of an English landscape garden with baroque and neo-classical elements. It is especially famous for its water games that use 200 to 300 years old techniques and work without electricity.
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It is the town’s landmark of Kassel, Germany and visible from nearly everywhere in the city: the octagon with the Herkules monument on top. It is one of the central buildings of the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013. The building is located on the back of the 526 meters high Karlsberg mountain in the Habichtswald.
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