Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station stands on Willy-Brandt-Platz in the Bad Wilhelmshöhe district of Kassel. The first station opened in 1849 as Wahlershausen station. It was damaged in the Second World War and rebuilt in a simplified form.
The present station was inaugurated at the end of May 1991, and ICE service began on 2 June 1991. The winners of the design competition were Andreas Brandt of Brandt & Böttcher, Giovanni Signorini and Yadegar Asisi. The entrance building is 722 feet (220 meters) long. A forecourt canopy 295 feet (90 meters) long is held up by 59 irregular columns. The wide platforms are carried on rows of fish-belly columns, which earned the station the nickname "palace of a thousand winds."
Construction cost about 300 million marks, and about 600 trains stop here each day.
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