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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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    December 6, 2021

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    A horde of monkeys was kept in a menagerie (called a monkey house) for the entertainment of General von Schlieffen. The monkeys were shot due to rabies. To commemorate the animals, the general probably had the monkey monument built between 1781 and 1788 in the form of a broken column (hence also called the monkey column). Its inscription, which he wrote himself, inspired Wilhelm Busch to write his well-known humoresque Fips the Monkey, published in 1879, during a stay at Windhausen Castle in 1878.
    There is an information board there today, but you can't see anything anymore ;-(
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    Location: Niestetal, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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