The district is served by the motorways 7 ( Würzburg - Kassel - Hanover ), 44 (Kassel - Dortmund ) and 49 (Kassel-Borken). The rail transport is oriented to the city of Kassel with tram and rail lines. Altogether it consists of 138 municipalities. The following list sorts all cities in the German state of Hesse with a population of more than 20,000. Over Bundesstraßen 27 (Göttingen–Eschwege), 80 (Hann. Cherries are traditional in Witzenhausen, which has led to the yearly Kesperkirmes, or “Cherry Fair” (Kesper is a regional name for the cherry; the standard German word is Kirsche), at which a Cherry Queen (Kirschenkönigin) is chosen. Nearby, a celebrated series of cascades is topped by a statue of Hercules that has been the symbol of Kassel since the 18th century. Berlepsch-Ellerode-Hübenthal (132 inhabitants), Historic town centre with various important, Diebesturm (“Thief’s Tower”), Eulenturm (“Owls’ Tower”) and parts of the old town wall, Gelsterhof Estate, the former Colonial School's farm, Greenhouse for domesticated tropical plants, Town park with swan pond (former firefighting pond), In 2006 Witzenhausen was the starting point for the third stage of the, Steintorschule (school for help with learning), Berufliche Schulen des Werra-Meißner-Kreises (vocational schools), Medienzentrum Witzenhausen (media centre), Bildstelle des Werra-Meißner-Kreises (training centre), Deutsches Institut für tropische und subtropische Landwirtschaft GmbH (DITSL, “German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture”), IBZW Internationales Bildungszentrum Witzenhausen GmbH (training centre), This page was last edited on 4 July 2020, at 09:48. Witzenhausen is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany. Wilhelmshöhe, a mountain just west of the city, is the site of a palace (1786–1801) that houses the State Art Collections. Witzenhausen’s 16 Stadtteile, besides the main town, also called Witzenhausen, are, on the Werra’s left bank: In 1898, the Deutsche Kolonialschule für Landwirtschaft, Handel und Gewerbe (“German Colonial School for Agriculture, Trade and Industry”, also called the Tropenschule, or “Tropical School”) was founded to train people in agriculture for resettlement in Germany's colonies. Witzenhausen lies on the northeast slope of the Kaufunger Wald, which is surrounded by the Meißner-Kaufunger Wald Nature Park. Another important employer is the district and town hospital in Witzenhausen. Near Friedland is an interchange on the A 38 towards Halle.

In the north of the district there is the Diemel as a tributary of the Weser. The town is found at the mouth of the Gelster, where it empties into the Werra some 30 km east of Kassel, 16 km east-southeast of Hann. Kassel is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the north of the state. The independent city of Kassel is nearly completely surrounded by the district. The former Witzenhausen Süd station stood southeast of the inner town and has been closed, like the whole of the Gelster Valley Railway between Eichenberg and –Großalmerode. It is located above the town on the north slope of the Werra valley and is served by trains to Kassel, Göttingen, Erfurt and Halle.

In Witzenhausen the SCA produces raw paper for corrugated cardboard for manufacturing packagings (SCA Packaging Containerboard) and hygiene products such as toilet paper (SCA Hygiene Products). The following table lists the 59 cities in Hesse with a population of at least 20,000 on December 31, 2017, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. Witzenhausen suffers – like the whole Werra-Meißner-Kreis and a great part of North Hesse – from extremely high unemployment and its attendant loss of younger people to migration. This state reformed its districts in the 1970s. St. Vallier's mayor's last name at the time was Witzenhausen, and when, on a visit to Germany, he spotted this name on a road sign, he drove to the town. (2003 est.) "Laufende Stadtbeobachtung – Raumabgrenzungen", "Homepage - Federal Statistical Office (Destatis)", "Bevölkerung nach Geschlecht für Kreise und kreisfreie Städte", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cities_in_Hesse_by_population&oldid=954660556, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The city rank by population as of December 31, 2017, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of German, The name of the district (Landkreis) in which the city lies (some cities are districts on their own called urban districts), The city population as of December 31, 2017, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, The city population as of May 9, 2011, as enumerated by the, The city land area as of December 31, 2017, The city population density as of December 31, 2017 (residents per unit of land area), This page was last edited on 3 May 2020, at 16:34.
Münden, the communities of Rosdorf and Friedland (all three in Lower Saxony's Göttingen district), in the east on the communities of Neu-Eichenberg (in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis), Bornhagen and Lindewerra (both in Thuringia’s Eichsfeld district), in the south on the towns of Bad Sooden-Allendorf and Großalmerode and the unincorporated area of Gutsbezirk Kaufunger Wald (all three in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis) and in the west on the community of Staufenberg in Lower Saxony’s Göttingen district. Other more rural parts had experienced population decline, though this has halted in recent years. Therefore, the district of Kassel is also marketed as the "Land of the Brothers Grimm". The population development of the cities and communes in Kassel. With the Airport Kassel-Waldau in 1924 there was an airport with international connections. Thus the tale of Sleeping Beauty locates at the Sababurg in Reinhardswald and that of Rapunzel on the Trendelburg.
Currently this airport is completely rebuilt. Witzenhausen is domicile of Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung alter und gefährdeter Haustierrassen (GEH, the society for the conservation of old and endangered livestock breeds).[2].