The Karlskirche in Kassel (also Oberneustädter Kirche) is a Protestant church built by

Paul du Ry Jean Paul du Ry (1640 – 21 June 1714) was a French architect and Huguenot refugee who was responsible for a number of baroque buildings in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. Origins Jean Paul du Ry came from a family of French architects. His father was ...

in 1710 for the local

Huguenot The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...

community. The church was the location of a hundred-day sound installation by John Cage in 1987.Amy C. Beal ''New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany'' 2006 "Finally, for one hundred days in 1987, from June to September, the Karlskirche in Kassel remained open for ten hours a day for churchgoers to experience a sound installation by Cage in connection with his work featured at that year's modern ..."

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{{Coord, 51, 18, 42, N, 9, 29, 41, E, region:DE-HE_type:landmark_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Churches in Kassel Churches completed in 1710 1710 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire Protestant churches in Hesse