Martinskirche (church)

The spiritual center of Kassel’s old district—which was founded in 1330 by Landgrave Henry II of Hesse and named “Freiheit”—was the church dedicated to St. Martin. It later came to be known as the “Great Church of Kassel.” It was not intended to be a parish church in the usual sense, but rather the city’s cathedral. The Gothic church was consecrated in 1462 and has been Protestant since 1524. It serves as the episcopal church of the Protestant Regional Church of Kurhessen and Waldeck.