Timeline of Kassel

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kassel, Germany.

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Prior to 19th century

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  • 1462 - Martinskirche, Kassel (church) built.
  • 1502 - Hofkapelle (orchestra) founded.
  • 1593 - Marstall (Kassel) built.
  • 1594 - Printer Wilhelm Wessel in business.[1]
  • 1606 - Ottoneum (theatre) built.[2]
  • 1626 - Population: 6,329.(de)
  • 1709 - Collegium Carolinum (Kassel) (school) founded.
  • 1710 - Karlskirche (Kassel) (church]] built.
  • 1731 - Casselische Zeitung von Policey (newspaper) begins publication.[3]
  • 1767 - Königsplatz (Kassel) (square) laid out.
  • 1768 - Friedrichsplatz (Kassel) (square) laid out.
  • 1769 - Opera house built on Königsstraße (Kassel).[4]
  • 1777 - Art school established.
  • 1779 - Fridericianum museum opens.
  • 1798 - Schloss Wilhelmshöhe (palace) built.

19th century

  • 1810 - Population: 23,068.(de)
  • 1836 - Verein für Naturkunde (society) founded.[5]
  • 1848 - Kassel–Warburg railway begins operating.
  • 1866
  • 1877 - Steam tram begins operating.[1]
  • 1880 - Population: 58,290.[7]
  • 1895 - Population: 81,752.[8]
  • 1899 - Wehlheiden becomes part of Kassel.
  • 1900 - Population: 106,034.[9]

20th century

21st century

  • 2005
    • Scheidemannplatz (square) remodelled.[1]
    • Bertram Hilgen becomes mayor.[1]
  • 2007
  • 2013 - Theater im Centrum opens.
  • 2014 - Mevlana Mosque (Kassel-Oberzwehren) built.[10]
  • 2015 - Population: 200,507.(de)

See also

Other cities in the state of Hesse:(de)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Stadtgeschichte: Kassel chronologisch" [City History: Chronology of Kassel]. Stadtportal (in German). Stadt Kassel. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  2. ↑ William Grange (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of German Theater. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6489-4.
  3. ↑ "Zeitungsinformationssystem ZEFYS" [Newspaper Information System] (in German). Berlin State Library. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Apell 1831.
  5. ↑ "Über uns: Geschichte (timeline)" (in German). Naturkundemuseum im Ottoneum. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  6. 1 2 Baedeker 1910.
  7. ↑ "Germany: Prussia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885 – via Hathi Trust.
  8. ↑ "German Empire: States of Germany: Prussia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.
  9. ↑ "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1904.
  10. ↑ "Nach sechs Jahren: Moschee für 3,5 Millionen Euro fast fertig", Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (in German), 15 May 2014

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

  • "Cassel". Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany. London: W.J. Adams & Sons. 1876.
  • "Cassel". Handbook for North Germany (20th ed.). London: J. Murray. 1886.
  • "Cassel". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
  • "Cassel", Jewish Encyclopedia, 3, New York, 1902
  • "Cassel", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
  • "Cassel", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424

in German

  • David August von Apell (1831). Cassel und dessen Umgebungen (in German). OCLC 174331391.
  • G. A. Lobe (1837). Wanderungen durch Cassel und die Umgegend (in German). Krieger.
  • Franz Carl Theodor Piderit (1844). Geschichte der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Kassel (in German).
  • "Cassel". Biblioteca geographica: Verzeichniss der Seit der Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts bis zu Ende des Jahres 1856 in Deutschland (in German). Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. 1858. (bibliography)
  • "Cassel". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German). 3 (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896.
  • Kreis Cassel. Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler im Regierungsbezirk Cassel (in German). Marburg. 1910 – via Heidelberg University Library, Heidelberger historische Bestände - digital.
  • Cassel und Wilhelmshöhe. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1919.
  • Gerhard Köbler (2007). "Kassel". Historisches Lexikon der Deutschen Länder (in German) (7th ed.). Munich: C.H. Beck. p. 327. ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1.
  • Hessen I: Regierungsbezirke Gießen und Kassel. Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler (in German). Deutscher Kunstverlag. 2008. ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3.
  • Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal, eds. (2012). "Kassel". Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 1037–1092. ISBN 978-3-11-029555-9.
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