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Former Monkey House Ruins

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Former Monkey House Ruins

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    Location: Niestetal, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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    February 1, 2024

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    Only a few witnesses remember the monkey house here.
    The monkeys fell victim to an illness.
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    October 17, 2023

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    The ruins of the former monkey house lie on a stream that has now dried up. Martin Ernst von Schlieffen is said to have kept his monkeys there.
    The building has now completely fallen into disrepair, but the remains suggest a square floor plan. A badly dilapidated staircase leads from the stream bed to the slightly elevated building. Below the monkey house there was a now collapsed grotto about 5 m in diameter.
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    June 28, 2020

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    Remains of the former monkey house of the estate owner Martin Ernst von Schlieffen. The monkey house was used as a winter quarters. The monkeys otherwise lived a free life within the Windhauser grove, but probably had to be killed due to a rabies infection.
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