Wilhelmshöhe Palace in Kassel was built for Landgrave William IX of Hesse, though the infobox names William I, Elector of Hesse. Simon Louis du Ry and Heinrich Christoph Jussow designed it, and it was built from 1786 to 1798. The infobox and text give the style as Neoclassical, while a UNESCO note cites its contribution to Baroque architecture. The article gives no materials or dimensions.
The site was a monastery from the 12th century, then a castle under Philip I, and Landgrave Moritz built a new castle from 1606 to 1610. Jérôme Bonaparte renamed it Napoleonshöhe, and Kaiser Wilhelm II used it as a summer residence from 1899 to 1918.
Much of the middle section was destroyed in World War II. Paul Friedrich Posenenske rebuilt it from 1968 to 1974, without the dome, and renovation followed from 1994 to 2000. It houses the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and an antiquities collection.
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