Editing Kassel (section)

===Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe===
{{Main|Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe}}The complex includes Wilhelmshöhe Palace (with the Antiquities Collection and Old Masters), the Hercules monument, and the Lions Castle.
[[Wilhelmshöhe Palace]] above the city was built in 1786, by landgrave Wilhelm IX of Hesse-Kassel. The palace is now a museum and houses an important collection of Graeco-Roman antiques and a fine gallery of paintings comprising the second largest collection of [[Rembrandt]]s in Germany.  It is surrounded by the beautiful [[Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe]] with many appealing sights.  The complex was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1049 | title=Sites in Germany and Italy bring to 19 the number of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List this year | publisher=UNESCO World Heritage Organization | date=23 June 2013 | access-date=9 July 2013}}</ref>[[File:Wilhelmshoehe - Herkules mit Kaskaden.jpg|thumb|[[Hercules monument (Kassel)|Herkules Monument]] and water running down the cascades during the water features in the Bergpark of the [[Wilhelmshöhe Palace]]]]
[[File:Kassel asv2022-02 img07 Orangerie.jpg|thumb|The [[Orangerie (Kassel)|Orangerie]] in the [[Karlsaue]] park]]The [[Hercules monument (Kassel)|Hercules monument]] is a huge octagonal stone structure carrying a giant replica of [[Hercules|Hercules "Farnese"]] (now at [[National Archaeological Museum, Naples|Museo Archeologico Nazionale]] in Naples, Italy).  From its base down to Wilhelmshöhe Palace runs a long set of artificial cascades. Every Sunday and Wednesday afternoon at 14:30 (from May until October), the famous [[Hercules monument (Kassel)|water features]] take place, which start at the Oktagon, and during a one-hour walk through the park visitors can follow the water's way until they reach the lake of the Wilhelmshöhe Palace, where a fountain of about {{convert|50|m|ft}} marks the end of the features.

The ''[[Löwenburg (Kassel)|Löwenburg]]'' ("Lions Castle") is a replica of a medieval castle, also built during the reign of Wilhelm IX. After the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870–71, [[Napoléon III]] was imprisoned in Wilhelmshöhe. In 1918, Wilhelmshöhe became the seat of the German Army High Command (OHL); it was there that the military commanders [[Paul von Hindenburg|Hindenburg]] and [[Erich Ludendorff|Ludendorff]] prepared the German capitulation.