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Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Steinhöfer Waterfall – View of the Löwenburg loop from Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

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Germany

Hesse

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Steinhöfer Waterfall – View of the Löwenburg loop from Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

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Steinhöfer Waterfall – View of the Löwenburg loop from Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

01:18

3.87km

180m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 15, 2026

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313 m

Hercules Monument, Wilhelmshöhe Mountain Park

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The park and the Hercules monument are landmarks of Kassel. The size of the park is enormous, and the Hercules monument is no exception. Anyone who wants to climb the Hercules monument from the park should be a good walker. After all, you have to climb stairs to the monument. There is of course a place to stop for refreshments, but it is a good 220 meters up. There is also a fee to climb the Hercules (but that only applies to the Hercules itself), the path and everything else in the park is free.

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396 m

Cascades of Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

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There are exactly 535 steps up to Hercules. The water features have been working for 300 years. There is even a fountain of about 50m. The water covers a distance of 2.3 km.

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531 m

View of Kassel from the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

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From the Wilhelmshöhe mountain park below the Hercules statue at the Cascade Falls you have a fantastic view of Kassel and the surrounding area.

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1.31 km

Steinhöfer Waterfall

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Steinhöfer waterfalls many visitors here. Very nice photo of water, construction and nature can be captured here

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1.43 km

View of the Löwenburg

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Since July 2022, the Löwenburg and its interior can be visited as part of guided tours. Be sure to pre-register for the guided tours via the homepage of the Kassel museums museum-kassel.de/de/museen-schloesser-parks/unesco-welterbe-bergpark-wilhelmshoehe/loewenburg, as places are limited. The Hercules and the collections in Wilhelmshöhe Palace can also be viewed on the same day with the admission ticket.

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1.94 km

Löwenburg (Wilhelmshöhe Mountain Park)

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Nestled in the mountain park above Wilhelmshöhe Palace, the Löwenburg Castle was built between 1793 and 1801 as one of the first pseudo-medieval castle ruins in Europe.
It represents an important individual element in the Gesamtkunstwerk Wilhelmshöhe Mountain Park.
Landgrave Wilhelm IX (reigned 1785–1821, later Elector Wilhelm I) commissioned his court architect Heinrich Christoph Jussow (1754–1825) to build it. The castle served the Landgrave both as a pleasure palace and as a symbol of the historical significance of the House of Hesse, which had ruled since the Middle Ages.
The interior of the complex, which externally resembles a dilapidated knight's castle, follows the typical spatial layout of a Baroque pleasure and country palace. In addition to the princely apartments, it includes an armory and a neo-Gothic castle chapel. The lord of the castle also found his final resting place in the crypt beneath the chapel.
The immediate surroundings of the castle were also incorporated into the production, with the creation of an ancient-looking castle garden, a vineyard, a tournament grounds, and a zoo. The Wolf's Gorge below was even intended to feature a monumental waterfall, which would have become an essential part of the romantic water features in the Bergpark. However, construction was quickly halted.
The castle's ruinous appearance became a sad reality with the destruction of the keep and other parts of the building during World War II. Current restoration work is aimed at rebuilding the keep, preserving the existing structures, and re-equipping the interior with their original furnishings.

This will allow visitors to once again experience the Löwenburg as it did during the time of Elector Wilhelm I.

museum-kassel.de/de/museen-schloesser-parks/unesco-welterbe-bergpark-wilhelmshoehe/loewenburg

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