Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Kassel, Germany

The armoury in Kassel was planned between 1581 and 1583 under the reign of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel by Count Rochus zu Lynar and Christoph Müller and built in the Renaissance style.

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St Martin's Church is a Protestant parish church in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. It is also the preaching-church of the bishop of the Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck. It is in the Gothic style and was begun in 1364 and completed in 1462, dedicated to St. Martin of Tours. It became a Protestant church in 1524, when Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse converted to Protestantism. From the 16th century until the end of the 18th century it was the burial place for the landgraves of Hesse.

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The Renthof Fountain is a fountain built around the year 1600 on the outer façade of the Renthof in Kassel. The listed monument from the Renaissance era is the oldest surviving fountain in the city.

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Blue Dancer is a light sculpture by the Japanese artist Kazuo Katase, which is located on the east side of the Walter Lübcke Bridge, parallel to the bridge, in Kassel – now permanently. The artwork connects the districts of Mitte and Unterneustadt and consists of a blue illuminated crossbar with two bucket-shaped structures underneath a rope.

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The Pickaxe is a steel sculpture by the Swedish-American Pop Art artist Claes Oldenburg in Kassel on the Hiroshima bank on the Auedamm on the Fulda River.

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The Orangerie is an orangery in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. It was built under Landgrave Charles between 1703 and 1711. Since then, it forms the northern corner of the Karlsaue park. Today it is used as an astronomy and physical cabinet.

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Rahmenbau oder Landschaft im Dia is a work of art by the former architect and artist group Haus-Rucker-Co. The installation was designed in 1977 for documenta 6 in Kassel and has since stood on the east side of Friedrichsplatz above the Karlsaue and the Orangery.

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The Ottoneum in Kassel, Germany was the first theater building built in Germany and is now a museum of natural history.

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The Fridericianum is a museum in Kassel, Germany. Built in 1779, it is one of the oldest public museums in Europe. Since 1955 the quinquennial art festival documenta has been centred on the site, with some artworks displayed on Friedrichsplatz, in front of the building.

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The obelisk is a monument designed for documenta 14 by Nigerian-American artist Olu Oguibe. In June 2017, it was erected at Kassel's Königsplatz; since April 2019, the obelisk has stood in Treppenstraße. The 16.20 m high monument entitled The Strangers and Refugees Monument bears the inscription "I was a stranger and you sheltered me" in the four languages most commonly spoken in Kassel: Arabic, German, English and Turkish, a quote from the Gospel of Matthew.

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The Linear Clock (Kassel Clock) is a light-kinetic sculpture constructed by Peter Hertha in 1977. It stands at the upper end of Kassel's Wilhelmsstraße on Ständeplatz.

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The Karlskirche in Kassel is a Protestant church built by Paul du Ry in 1710 for the local Huguenot community.

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A Ego-Monument is a sculpture that was erected for the first time in the city of Frankfurt am Main. The work of the artist Hans Traxler in collaboration with the stonemason Reiner Uhl has been on display since 24 March 2005 in the Oberrad district, in the Mainuferanlage between Rudererdorf and Gerbermühle in Frankfurt's green belt.

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The Hessian State Museum is a local history museum located in Kassel, Germany. The collection ranges from the Paleolithic Age to the present. The museum is also home to the German Wallpaper Museum.

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The Museum of Sepulal Culture is a special museum on Weinbergstrasse in Kassel. The Museum of Sepulal Culture, which opened in 1992, is devoted to the topic of death, death, burial, grief and commemoration. The Working Group Cemetery and Monument e. V. It belongs to the working group of independent cultural institutes.

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The Karlsaue Park is a public and inner-city park of 1.50 km2 (0.58 sq mi) in Kassel. It was redesigned as a landscape garden in 1785 and consists of a mixture of visible Baroque garden elements and arranged “natural areas”.

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