Schloss Wilhelmshöhe [SEP] architect
in the 12th century the site was used as a monastery. Under Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse 1504-1567 it was secularised and used as a castle. This castle was replaced by a new one from 1606 to 1610 by Landgrave Moritz. The current Neoclassical "Schloss Wilhelmshöhe" was designed by architects Simon Louis du Ry and from 1786 to 1798 for Landgrave William IX of Hesse.
As king of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Jérôme Bonaparte renamed it "Napoleonshöhe" and appointed his Head Chamberlain Heinrich von Blumenthal as its
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.
History 1696–1806.
The Bergpark came into being as a Baroque park under Landgrave Charles I of Hesse-Kassel. In 1701, the Italian architect started the construction of the Hercules monument and the giant cascades. In 1785, Wilhelm (William