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The Fridericianum in Kassel offers a fascinating story for museum buffs. The building was completed in 1779 and was one of the first public museums ever built. Today, it offers exhibitions about contemporary art and serves as a venue for the events of the Documenta.
After leaving Kassel Central Station, you may see this odd diving platform on a hotel roof. The explanation for this strange view: It’s a piece of public art. The title of the artwork is “Arschbombe”. Its creator was Ralph Raabe.
The Hessenpark forms an open-air museum featuring around 100 buildings from the German state of Hesse. Besides farmhouses, barns and windmills, you also see a marketplace with urban structures.
A museum with intriguing architecture forms the Museum of Natural History known as Ottoneum. Inside, it offers goodies like a Xylotheque and the Ratzenberger Herbarium. Another attraction is the Goethe Elephant Skeleton.
This photo shows the view of the financial quarter of Frankfurt am Main taken from a bridge named ‘Alte Brücke’. The quarter with the skyscrapers lies near the Main River. Therefore, there is a pun calling this part of the city or even the whole city ‘Mainhattan’.
The Nerobergbahn saw its construction in 1888 as a funicular railway driven by water counterbalancing. The cars still operate with this technology. The funicular connects the Nerotal Valley with the Neroberg Hill, a lookout high over Wiesbaden.
As you know I love to stroll around railway stations while waiting for the next connection. So I do at airports as well. At Frankfurt on Main Airport I came across this Cadillac Sedan (1956) which is an advertisement for two German museums about technology.
Fun as well as thought provoking advertising seen at Frankfurt on Main Airport. Literally translated the text says: “You have to read in order to stay on top”
Another interesting venue of the dOCUMENTA (13) I visited today: The Brüder-Grimm-Museum in Kassel.
Photo of a sundial with zodiac signs seen at the tower of the Fridericianum in Kassel.
After World War II a large part of Kassel was rebuilt in the style of the 50ties. So if you are interested in the architecture of this period a walk through Kassel is a good way to learn more about it.
While waiting for the delayed train to Hanau I realized that the exact delay of a train is a matter of language.