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
- Prussian XI Army Corps headquartered in Kassel.^[6]
- Kassel becomes seat of province Hesse-Nassau in Prussia.^[6]
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

1906 - Bettenhausen, Kirchditmold, Rothenditmold, and Wahlershausen becomes part of Kassel.^[1]
1909
- Neue Hoftheater (theatre) built.
- Population: 150,577.^(de)
1914 - Stadthalle Kassel built.^[1]
1926 - Gutsbezirk Fasanenhof becomes part of Kassel.
1928 - Gutsbezirk Oberförsterei Kirchditmold, Kragenhof, Oberförsterei Ehlen, and Wilhelmshöhe become part of Kassel.
1936
- Harleshausen, Niederzwehren, Nordshausen, Oberzwehren, Waldau, and Wolfsanger become part of Kassel.^[1]
- Population: 203,418.^(de)
1942 - Bombing of Kassel in World War II begins.
1945
- 1-4 April: Battle of Kassel (1945); Allied forces win.
- Hessischen Nachrichten newspaper begins publication.
1960 - Kassel Hauptbahnhof (train station) rebuilt.
1955
- National Bundesgartenschau 1955 (garden show) held in Kassel.^[1]
- "Documenta" quinquennial art exhibition begins.
1959 - Staatstheater Kassel built.
1960 - Brüder Grimm-Museum Kassel opens.^[1]
1971 - University of Kassel established.
1972 - Kassel (district) formed in the state of Hesse.
1976 - New Gallery (Kassel) opens.
1977 - Eissporthalle Kassel (ice rink) opens.
1981 - National Bundesgartenschau 1981 (garden show) held in Kassel.^[1]
1985 - Population: 184,466.^(de)

21st century

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

References

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.
↑ William Grange (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of German Theater. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6489-4.
↑ "Zeitungsinformationssystem ZEFYS" [Newspaper Information System] (in German). Berlin State Library. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
↑ Apell 1831.
↑ "Über uns: Geschichte (timeline)" (in German). Naturkundemuseum im Ottoneum. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
1 2 Baedeker 1910.
↑ "Germany: Prussia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885 – via Hathi Trust.
↑ "German Empire: States of Germany: Prussia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.
↑ "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1904.
↑ "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", Encyclopaedia 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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