-- [ From: Janet Reinhold * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- Since many of our family ancestors came from Hessen, I thought some of the following from someone interested in Hessen-Kassel would be of interest. There are some links, too, which I didn't have time to check out. > Date: Tuesday, 07-Oct-97 03:38 PM > HESSE-D Digest Volume 97 : Issue 72 > X-Message: #3 > Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:57:00 -0700 > From: Cindy Kimes <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: What is 'Hesse Kassel' > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Thanks for all the answers to my question on Hesse Kassel. Here are the answers > sent: > > 1. Hesse-Kassel was an electorate which was comprised mainly of > today's state of Hesse. The area is roughly NE of Frankfurt > and extended from Hesse to Kassel (another city in to the NE). > Try this link for a map: > http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/gerw/gw-hesse.html > > Here's a German genealogy home page: > http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/gene/ > > 2. Sometimes spelled Hessen or Hesse-Cassel. It is a county > within the kingdom/province/state of Hesse. It is in the > northern part of Hesse - north of Frankfurt. > > 3. Kassel is a large City in the State of Hessen. > > 4. Hessen Kassel was a German Small-State. The maintown was > Kassel. After the Congress of Wien 1815-1817 Hessen-Kassel > annexed some small Principalities. After the war between > Prussia and Austria in 1866 Prussia annexed Hessen-Kassel. > Since this time Hessen-Kassel was a part of Prussia. > Another name of Hessen-Kassel was: Kurhessen. > Since 1945 as a result of WW2 the modern State of Hessen > includes the old Hessen Kassel area. > > Towns in Hessen Kassel are: Karlshafen, Hofgeismar, Fulda, > Wolfhagen, Fritzlar, Frankenberg, Marburg, Ziegenhain, > Hersfeld, Eschwege, Schluechtern, Steinau, Gelnhausen, > Hanau, and an enclave Schmalkalden (now Thueringen) > Look at Hessen's web-page: http://www.hessen.de > > This information has been most helpful. > > Cindy Kimes, Elkhart, IN, USA ==================================== > X-Message: #4 > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:32:04 -0400 (EDT) > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: What is 'Hesse Kassel' > > In einer eMail vom 07.10.1997 12:20:01, schreibt [email protected] com: > Hallo Freunde von Hessen! > << Hesse-Kassel was an electorate which was comprised mainly of > today's state of Hesse. The area is roughly NE of Frankfurt > and extended from Hesse to Kassel (another city in to the NE). > Try this link for a map: > http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/gerw/gw-hesse.html > >> > I looked at this map. This map is very good. It shows the Hessian States > between 1817 and 1866. The name of the State was Kurfuerstentum Hessen -Kassel > or Hessen-Cassel. Hesse is wrong. > > This map shows Hessen Darmstadt too. North of Frankfurt where Hesse Darmstadt > is written you see the Province Oberhessen. South of Frankfurt around Darmstadt > on the right site of the Rhine-River you see the Province Starkenburg and left > site of the Rhine-River you can see the Province Rheinhessen. After WW2 > Rheinhessen belongs to the modern German State of Rheinland-Pfalz. > > West of the Province Oberhessen you see the State of Hessen-Nassau. > The area around Wetzlar belonged to Prussia. > Prussia annexed Hessen-Kassel and Hessen Nassau and the city of Frankfurt in > 1866. > Only Hessen Darmstadt was independent just to 1945. > > In the springtime of 1945 the US-Army conquered the Hessian area and they built > the modern State of Hessen with the capital Wiesbaden. You can look at the map > of modern Hessen on Hessen's homepage: > > http://www.hessen.de > > This was a general view about Hessen's history. > > Viele Gruesse aus Hessen > Karl I hope by keeping the signatures I won't have violated any copyright issues.... Your editor, Janet Reinhold [email protected] ==== KUNKEL Mailing List ==== To send a message to everyone, send it directly to: [email protected], or reply to an individual message and note "send to all recipients" or whatever your system has for this option.