{"id":75115,"date":"2026-03-20T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=75115"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:27:05","slug":"magic-nordhessen","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/collecting\/magic-nordhessen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Magic Nordhessen!!!\u2019: a Kassel shop full of collections for almost 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Kassel, Vorderer Westen: a shop where things have been collected for almost a century. We took a look inside.
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Push open the door<\/strong> and the first thing you hear is the locomotive. A small model railway trundles round between the wine racks, carrying helicopters, containers, timber \u2013 and somehow time itself. Because time has stood still here for decades.

Karl-Heinz Jennewein, known as Carlo, is the second generation to run \u2018Wein-M\u00fcller\u2019 in Kassel’s Vorderer Westen district. The wine shop has been going for a century \u2013 with one interruption: in 1943 a bomb hit the original shop on Hohentorstra\u00dfe. Today it is a crammed, dark-panelled universe of pennants, fan merchandise, spirits and miniature trains.

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\u2018Top wine shop\ud83c\udf77<\/strong>\u2026quirky, old-school interior\u2026\ud83d\ude82model railway outstanding\u2026as is the rum selection\ud83d\ude09\ud83d\udc4creally knowledgeable advice\ud83d\udc4dyou\u2019ve got to drop by\u2026.Magic North Hesse\u2026!!!\u2019 \u2013 Google review<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n \n\n

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The shadow of the<\/strong> model Ferris wheel on the wallpaper. The little Ferris wheel sits at the very top of the back bar in the shop, behind the counter.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div> \n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n

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Karl-Heinz Jennewein<\/strong> behind his shop counter. His goods are neatly arranged among his collections of fan merchandise \u2013 partly to show his support for the football club KSV Hessen Kassel.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div> \n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n

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A long-standing employee<\/strong> of the wine shop polishes the last glass of the day. \u2018I\u2019ve known Carlo since the sixties. We were in the same crowd even back then,\u2019 she says of her relationship with Karl-Heinz.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div> \n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n

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The coat and<\/strong> hat stand in front of a photograph of Wilhelmsh\u00f6he station at night. Guests who take a seat in the taproom at the back of the wine shop can hang their jackets and coats there, alongside the owner\u2019s own collection.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div> \n\n\n \n\n \n<\/div>\n\n \n\n

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Karl-Heinz operates<\/strong> the model railway and watches the trains go round.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div> \n\n\n \n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Created in the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography programme at Hochschule Hannover. About the programme<\/a> \u00b7 Portfolio review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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