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Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Old Wilhelmshöhe Station

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Old Wilhelmshöhe Station

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Old Wilhelmshöhe Station

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Location: Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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Nordhesse

November 9, 2020

The old Wilhelmshöhe station is a relic of the disused Herkulesbahn. The line ran from the city center of Kassel up to near the Herkules and to the Hoher Gras. In 1966 the line was finally closed. Today the old station is the terminus of the tram to the Bergpark.

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Franzl wandert 🥾

June 2, 2022

At the (tram) station Wilhelmshöhe (Park) is the end of tram line 1, which leads from Vellmar Nord through the whole of Kassel to here. The information point of the World Heritage site Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is located in the beautifully restored building.

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

July 21, 2021

The Herkulesbahn was a meter-gauge small train in the city of Kassel, which between 1902 and 1966 opened up the Hohe Habichtswald and the Hercules statue there for freight and passenger transport by means of rail cars.

The railcars drove from Kirchweg in the district of Wehlheiden over the Kohlenstraße and the then still narrow, paved and steep Druseltalstraße up to the high elevations of the Habichtswald. In particular, they drove through the wooded valley of the Drusel over the district of New Holland, which belongs to the Wilhelmshöhe district (today: Bad Wilhelmshöhe) and from there along the Hüttenbergstrasse up to near the Hercules. Above this road, the former course of the tracks can still be seen from a mostly straight walking and hiking trail. The mountain station was about 400 meters southwest of the Hercules at about 490 m above sea level. NHN near the lowest of today's three parking spaces; The Drusel tributary Sichelbach flowed immediately to the east. From there, passengers could get to Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe and the water features there.

During the Second World War, the Hercules colliery (December 31, 1940) and the Roter Stollen (1941) colliery and thus the section to the Hohen Gras were closed. In the early 1950s, it was planned to extend the route from Brasselsberg to the neighboring municipality of Elgershausen (now part of the municipality of Schauenburg), but this failed.

After the connection from the Luisenhaus to Brasselsberg was switched to bus operation on December 1, 1965, on April 11, 1966, shortly after 11 p.m., a railcar drove down from the Herkules valley for the last time. Since the following day, April 12th, Hercules was also connected to the Kirchweg by buses.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herkulesbahn

more information: kassel-wilhelmshoehe.de/herkulesbahn.html

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Location: Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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Old Wilhelmshöhe Station

1. Steinhöfer Waterfall – Höllenteich loop from Bad Wilhelmshöhe

2. Steinhöfer Waterfall – Höllenteich loop from Dorf Mulang

3. Höllenteich – Prinzenquelle Kneipp facility loop from Dorf Mulang

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