Kassel

American  

[kas-uhl, kah-suhl] / ˈkæs əl, ˈkɑ səl /

Or Cassel

noun

1. a city in central Germany.

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Kassel British  

/ ˈkasəl /

noun

1. a city in central Germany, in Hesse; capital of Westphalia (1807–13) and of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (1866–1945). Pop: 194 322 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

Rosenzweig was born in Kassel in 1886, into a German-Jewish bourgeoisie for which Beethoven, Goethe and the Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper were as formative as the Torah had once been.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

She died in the German town of Kassel surrounded by her family, the statement said.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025

"And several research teams are already trying to do this, for example at the University of Kassel and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden."

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

Policymakers trying to reduce poverty need such metrics, which are similar to those available for other policy challenges, says Stefan Bringezu of the University of Kassel, who was not involved in the study.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 20, 2023

He set out from Kassel on the River Fulda bound, eventually, for England.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton