Kassel

Kassel is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, in central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and of the district of the same name, and it had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020. The city was once the capital of the state of Hesse-Kassel, and that past left it with many palaces and parks, among them the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kassel is also widely known as the home of the documenta exhibitions of contemporary art. The University of Kassel, a public university, had about 25,000 students in 2018, and the population is multicultural, with 39 percent of citizens in 2017 having a migration background. Until 1926 the name was spelled Cassel in Germany.