Marble Bath

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The marble bath is Germany's last important and preserved representative bath complex from the late Baroque period. The pavilion was built under Landgrave Karl. The Italian sculptor Monnot created the magnificent interior architecture with marble sculptures and wall reliefs.
Open from 1 April to 31 October

The marble baths were built from 1722 to 1728 under Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel. The important Roman sculptor Pierre Etienne Monnot (1657-1733) created the magnificent interior architecture with marble sculptures and wall reliefs with depictions from Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as medallions with portrait busts of Landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel and his wife, Landgravine Marie Amalie of Courland. The Kassel marble bath represents one of the most important ensembles of Roman secular sculpture of the early 18th century.

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