The idea of decorating Kassel’s city centre at Christmas with an oversized advent calendar was a huge success – first in the 2012 advent season.
Mounted on a purpose-built scaffold, the 300 m² calendar showed the decorated City Hall façade with 24 numbered windows on 8 strips. Every day a 140 × 140 cm door was opened, revealing the most beautiful winter photos of Kassel – in the second year the best pictures of the “Kassel 1100” anniversary – chosen from an HNA photo competition.
From 1 to 24 December a door was opened every day at 5 p.m., hosted by RADIO HNA with bands, choirs and brass music. A prize draw organised by Kassel Marketing brought life to the upper pedestrian zone. The banners are designed for reuse – the motifs behind the doors can be changed every year.
