Germany · Restored
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe is a late 18th-century Neoclassical palace in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, built for Landgrave William IX and later used as a summer residence by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it houses the Wilhelmshöhe Castle Museum, including the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and other collections. The palace was partly destroyed in World War II and subsequently rebuilt; its dome was not reconstructed.
First raised
1786
Its prime
1910
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1910
The shape it held in its prime.
A wide, symmetrical Neoclassical palace of light red-brown sandstone set atop a grassy hill in the Bergpark, dominated by a central rectangular block with a tall columned portico and triangular pediment bearing an inscription. Low rusticated ground floor with arched windows supports two higher storeys of regularly spaced rectangular windows. Broad semicircular side wings sweep out from the main block, forming a curved, balustraded roofline; at prime a central dome rose behind the pediment. The facade is formal and monumental, overlooking parkland and the estate water features.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1910.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Schloss Wilhelmshöhe — including 4 interiors: gallery of the old masters (main exhibition hall), antiquities collection galleries, graphic arts collection room and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Schloss Wilhelmshöhe with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1910 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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