Verwaltungsgericht Kassel, Administrative court in Kassel, Germany

The Verwaltungsgericht Kassel is one of five first-instance administrative courts in Hesse. Since November 2018 it has occupied part of the Fachgerichtszentrum at Goethestraße in the Vorderer Westen district, sharing the building with the Hessische Verwaltungsgerichtshof. Its jurisdiction covers the city of Kassel and the districts of Kassel, Fulda, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Waldeck-Frankenberg and Werra-Meißner-Kreis.

Founded on 16 June 1946 under Control Council Law No. 36, the court first sat with the Hessian Administrative Court of Appeals in Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. It moved to Block A of the former imperial Jägerkaserne on 1 December 1950, then to Brüder-Grimm-Platz on 22 December 1952. After a stop at Tischbeinstraße 32 from 1 December 1986, it has shared the Fachgerichtszentrum Goethestraße with the appeals court since November 2018.

The court's seat has moved repeatedly: from Schloss Wilhelmshöhe in 1946 to Block A of the former imperial Jägerkaserne in 1950, then to Brüder-Grimm-Platz in 1952, Tischbeinstraße 32 in 1986, and the Fachgerichtszentrum Goethestraße in the Vorderer Westen district in November 2018, again sharing a building with the Hessian Administrative Court of Appeals.

Since November 2018 the court has sat with the Hessian Administrative Court of Appeal in the new Fachgerichtszentrum on Goethestraße in the Vorderer Westen district, so visitors should head there rather than to the earlier Tischbeinstraße or Brüder-Grimm-Platz addresses. The building lies in Kassel's western quarter, reachable by tram along the Goethestraße corridor.

The court has shared a building with the Hessian Administrative Court of Appeal since November 2018, in the new Fachgerichtszentrum on Goethestraße in the Vorderer Westen district. Before that, from 1952, both courts occupied the building at Brüder-Grimm-Platz, initially only its right wing and gatehouse.