Bad Karlshafen Harbour Basin

Idyllic Harbour with a Baroque Past

At the beginning, there was a bold plan: Landgrave Karl of Kassel wanted to connect his land directly to the North Sea by building a canal between the Lahn and Weser rivers at the end of the 17th century. Although the project was never completed, today the small, picturesque harbour with its baroque backdrop invites visitors to relax.
The harbour was built at the confluence of the Weser and Diemel rivers, where Landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel (1654–1730) established the harbour basin. In the small town of Karlshafen, founded in 1699, Huguenots—Protestant refugees from France—could settle. The plan was to transport goods via a canal from there to Fulda and then to the city of Kassel. The waterway was intended to continue through Marburg into the Lahn River and eventually into the Rhine, with the goal of connecting the Rhine and Weser within the territory of Hesse-Kassel.

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