Kassel district ( German : Landkreis Kassel ) is a district in the north of Hesse , Germany . Neighboring districts are Northeim , Göttingen , Werra-Meißner , Schwalm-Eder , Waldeck-Frankenberg , Höxter . The independent city of Kassel is nearly completely surrounded by the district.
6-494: Hofgeismar ( German pronunciation: [hoːfˈɡaɪ̯smaʁ] ) is a town in the district of Kassel , in northern Hesse , Germany . It is located 25 km north of Kassel on the German Timber-Frame Road . In 1978 and in 2015, the town hosted the 18th Hessentag state festival. The first written document mentioning Hofgeismar dates back to the year 1082. This Hesse location article
12-664: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kassel (district) The main river in the district is the Weser , which also forms part of the eastern boundary. Its headstream, the Fulda , flows through the southern part of the district including the city of Kassel. In the north of the district there is the Diemel as a tributary of the Weser. The area was first populated by the ancient Germanic tribe of Chatti , who later founded
18-897: The Brothers Grimm have originated in the area around Kassel. Thus the tale of Sleeping Beauty locates at the Sababurg in Reinhardswald and that of Rapunzel on the Trendelburg. Therefore, the district of Kassel is also marketed as the "Land of the Brothers Grimm" . The region is the center of the German Fairy Tale Route . The district is represented in the European Garden Heritage Network with three parks: The park of
24-597: The castles Schloss Wilhelmsthal (in Calden), the Escheberg-Castle and the Sababurg. The district is served by the motorways 7 ( Würzburg - Kassel - Hanover ), 44 (Kassel - Dortmund ) and 49 (Kassel-Borken). Other roadlinks, including the B 7, B 83 and B 251, exist. With the Airport Kassel-Waldau in 1924 there was an airport with international connections. In 1970 it was closed with the opening of
30-515: The newly established district of Kassel. The coat of arms shows the lion of Hesse in the top part, as Kassel was the capital of the county of Hesse until 1866, when it moved to Prussia . In the lower part it has three oak leaves taken from the coat of arms of the Hofgeismar district, and a wolf's hook symbolizing the Wolfhagen district. Many characters and places from the fairy tales of
36-449: The state of Hesse. The present county was disputed between various principalities (Hesse, Mainz, Paderborn, Cologne and Braunschweig) in the early Middle Ages; later it became part of Hesse and Hesse-Kassel. This state was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . The modern federal state of Hesse was founded after 1945. This state reformed its districts in the 1970s. In 1972, the previous districts of Kassel, Hofgeismar and Wolfhagen, were merged to form
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