Wilhelmshöhe

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Hercules monument at the Bergpark, landmark of Kassel
Location	Kassel
Type	Cultural
Criteria	(iii)(iv)
Reference	1413
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Coordinates	51°18′57″N 09°23′35″E / 51.31583°N 9.39306°E / 51.31583; 9.39306Coordinates: 51°18′57″N 09°23′35″E / 51.31583°N 9.39306°E / 51.31583; 9.39306
Inscription history
Inscription	2013 (37th Session)
Location in Germany

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a landscape park in Kassel, Germany. The area of the park is 2.4 square kilometres (590 acres), making it the largest European hillside park, and second largest park on a hill slope in the world. Construction of the Bergpark, or "mountain park", began in 1696 at the behest of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and took about 150 years. The park is open to the public today. Since 2013 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Bad Wilhelmshöhe (), a Stadtteil of Kassel in northern Hesse, is situated west of the city centre at the foot of the Habichtswald hill range. It is also known for Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station on the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway line.

Originally laid out in the Baroque style of the giardino all'italiana and the French formal garden, with water features running downhill in cascades to Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, it was later re-arranged into an English landscape garden.

In 1143, Canons Regular from Mainz established the Weißenstein monastery at the site of present-day Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, which was dissolved in the course of the Protestant Reformation. Landgrave Philip I of Hesse used the remaining buildings as a hunting lodge, largely rebuilt by his descendant Maurice of Hesse-Kassel from 1606 to 1610.