Kassel (district) - History

History

The area was populated fist by the ancient Germanic tribe of Chatti, who found later the state of Hesse. The present county was in the early Middle Ages a controversial between various dominations (Hesse, Mainz, Paderborn, Cologne and Braunschweig), later it became a part of Hesse and Hesse-Kassel.This state was anexed in 1866 by Prussia.

The modern federal state of Hesse was found after 1945. This state made a district reform in the 1970s. In 1972, the previous districts of Kassel, Hofgeismar and Wolfhagen, were merged to form the newly established district of Kassel.

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