Der Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, der sich im Stadtgebiet der nordhessischen Großstadt Kassel im Habichtswald befindet, ist der größte Bergpark in Europa und ein Landschaftspark von Weltgeltung. Georg Dehio, Nestor der modernen Denkmalpflege, sagt über den Park: „... vielleicht das Grandioseste, was irgendwo der Barock in Verbindung von Architektur und Landschaft gewagt hat.“.
International bekannt ist der Park insbesondere durch die Kasseler Wasserspiele, den Herkules, das Schloss Wilhelmshöhe und die Löwenburg. Ab 1696 begann der Bau der Parkanlage, deren Erweiterung sich über einen Zeitraum von etwa 150 Jahren hinzog. Bauherren waren die Landgrafen und Kurfürsten von Hessen-Kassel.
Mehr Informationen gibt es sehr gut zusammengefasst bei Wikipedia.de.
 |
 |
|||||||||||||
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
UNESCO
Tentative List
A Tentative List is an inventory of those properties which each State Party intends to consider for nomination during the following years.
States Parties are encouraged to submit in their Tentative Lists, properties which they consider to be cultural and/or natural heritage of outstanding universal value and therefore suitable for inscription on the World Heritage List.
States Parties are encouraged to prepare their Tentative Lists with the participation of a wide variety of stakeholders, including site managers, local and regional governments, local communities, NGOs and other interested parties and partners.
States Parties should submit Tentative Lists, which should not be considered exhaustive, to the World Heritage Centre, preferably at least one year prior to the submission of any nomination. States Parties are encouraged to re-examine and re-submit their Tentative List at least every ten years.
States Parties are requested to submit their Tentative Lists using a Tentative List Submission Format , in English or French, containing the name of the properties, their geographical location, a brief description of the properties, and justification of their outstanding universal value.
Nominations to the World Heritage List will not be considered unless the nominated property has already been included on the State Party's Tentative List.
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Germany (Europe and North America)
Date of Submission: 20/09/1999
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv)
Category: Cultural
Submission prepared by:
Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Coordinates:
51°18' N., 9°24' W. The site is situated on the eastern slope of Habichtswald mountains, at the westem rim of the city of Kassel in the northem part of Hesse, Germany.
Ref.: 1365
Description
The landscape-park of Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel is positioned on the slopes of the Habichtswald mountains. This position enabled its sculptors to enclose a wide variety of effects produced by water flowing: cascades, water-falls, artificial streams and lakes. The central axis of the park was laid out as a monumental cascade, still working - during summer time. In seize and variety of its elements this park on a mountainside is unique world-wide. Originally laid out as a geometrical garden in baroque stile it was recreated as a landscape garden in English style at the end of the 18th century.
Art history does consider this park as the top of landscape gardening in the end of the 18th century, as well as a prime example of water-engineering of this time.
The local prince of this time, Wilhelm IX, Landgraf of Hesse, financed this project of his by money which was paid to him by the English crown for troops he rented to her during the American War of Independence. So this park is also witness to the political situation and the political system of "absolutism" in pre-Revolutionary Europe just before the effects of French revolution took over mainland Europe.
Copyright © 1992-2007 UNESCO World Heritage Centre, All Rights