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Darmstadt (German: [ˈdaʁmʃtat] ⓘ) is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse after Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, and Kassel.
- Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
- Mathildenhöhe
- Hochzeitsturm
- Schlossmuseum
- Messel Pit
- Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt
- Waldspirale
- Herrngarten
- Ludwigsmonument
- Park Rosenhöhe
More than a century old, Hesse’s regional museum has a bit of everything from natural history to ancient archaeology to modern painting. With such a massive and diverse collection, what you see will depend on your taste, but there are a few exhibits with universal appeal. First up is the large collection of astoundingly detailed fossils from the Eo...
In 1899 the Grand Duke of Hesse, Ernst Ludwig had the idea of attracting artists to build a colony in Darmstadt to breathe new life into the city’s culture and commerce. He recruited some of the leading members of Germany’s Jugendstil movement (Art Nouveau) to design houses, studios and monuments in a wave of construction divided into four exhibiti...
If there’s one sight that cannot be missed in Mathildenhöhe it’s Olbrich’s iconic Hochzeitsturm (Wedding Tower). The tower is just shy of 50 metres tall and was built in 1908 to commemorate Ernst Ludwig’s wedding to Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. Olbrich called on a team of craftsmen and artists for the tower’s masterful fittings and d...
The possessions belonging to Darmstadt’s Landgraves and Frand Dukes are revealed at this museum in the bell-tower of their former residence opposite Marktplatz. The historical artefacts, applied arts, paintings, photographs and documents help piece together hundreds of years of Hesse and Darmstadt’s past. The museum has been open to all since 1924,...
Within Darmstadt’s city limits is a UNESCO World Heritage Site regarded as the world’s richest fossil source from the Eocene Epoch. The pit was only discovered by science in the 1970s; before that it was a mine for brown coal and a well for shale oil. When the site was given a serious survey the unprecedented wealth of its natural heritage was reve...
One of the Art Nouveau buildings constructed in the first exhibition was the Ernst-Ludwig-Haus, intended for ateliers and designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich. The south facade catches everyone’s attention for its curved portal with fastidious gilded vegetal ornamentation and a pair of sculptures representing man and woman. The museum’s galleries give ...
Friedensreich Hundertwasser designed this apartment building in his inimitable quirky style. Work started in 1998 and was completed in 2000, the year Hundertwasser passed away. Set in the Bürgerparkviertel, the Waldspirale holds 105 apartments and rises to 12 storeys high. From the outside its spiralling bands of texture, curved edges and apparentl...
Darmstadt’s largest and oldest park has roots that go back to the 1500s when three smaller parks were combined into one. In 1766 it was redesigned in the English style on the orders of the Landgrave Caroline, and then in 1811 Grand Duke Ludwig I opened the park to the public. The sculptor Ludwig Habich contributed a couple of noteworthy monuments a...
Nicknamed “Langer Ludwig” (Tall Ludwig), this 40-metre column and statue on Luisenplatz is one of Darmstadt’s major landmarks. This honours the first Hessian Constitution and depicts Ludwig I, the first Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, who ruled from 1830 to his death in 1848. The Neoclassical monument was begun in 1841 while he was still alive an...
The last Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig had a big hand in the design of this park on a hill to the east of the city. The park’s history begins a century before in the early 1800s: It was first landscaped on what used to be a vineyard, and in the 1820s a Neoclassical mausoleum was built here for Princess Elisabeth Grand Duke Ludwig II’s daughter who also p...
Darmstadt, city, Hessen Land (state), south-central Germany. It is situated on a gently sloping plain between the Odenwald (a forested plateau) and the Rhine River, south of Frankfurt am Main and southeast of Mainz. First mentioned in the 11th century, Darmstadt was by the 14th century a small.
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Welcome to Darmstadt. Whether you are in Darmstadt just for a day or staying longer, you will surely not get you bored. Explore the Mathildenhöhe with its extraordinary Art Nouveau ensemble and enjoy the view from the viewing plattfom of the Wedding Tower.
The Mathildenhöhe Artists' Colony, mighty Art Nouveau buildings and an effervescent culture scene make Darmstadt, the City of Science, unique.
The Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt is an ensemble of Wedding Tower, Exhibition Hall, Museum Artists' Colony, plane tree grove and artist houses. It was laid out as the garden of the grand ducal court as early as the 19th century and was one of the most important centres of modern art and architecture in Europe and the world for 14 years, from 1901 to 1914.
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