The New International Encyclopædia/Arolsen

AROLSEN, ä′rō̇l-s𝑒n. The capital of the German Principality of Waldeck, on the Aar, about 22 miles west northwest of Cassel (Map: Germany, C 3). The castle contains a valuable library, a picture gallery, a fine collection of engravings and antiquities. The town is the birthplace of the sculptor Rauch, and of the painters Wilhelm and Friedrich Kaulbach. Population, in 1895, 2768; in 1900, 2734.