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Weststadt is a district in the west of Karlsruhe between the city center and the older district of Mühlburg. The most famous part of the district is the avenue Kaiserallee . History
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Innenstadt-West is a district in the western center of Karlsruhe, Germany. The district, along with Innenstadt-Ost, forms the city center. This is where mainly service and business activities take place; while there are only 9,950 inhabitants in this district, there are over 25,000 jobs here. [1] [2]
Karlsruhe, which was founded by Charles III William, became a major city in the 19th century. In the 1950s, Karlsruhe became a significant city where the population started to grow. It gained a large student population due to the university of technology and media arts. Karlsruhe reached populations of 200,000 in 1950 and 300,000 in 2014.
The Karlsruhe Zoo was built at the eastern end in 1864. [2] Originally designated as an industrial area, it is now mainly a residential area without large factories. The Industriewerke Karlsruhe, a weapons and munitions factory built during the World War II, is now used by, among others, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien.
Weststadt (German: west(ern) city) may refer to: Weststadt (Karlsruhe), a district of Karlsruhe; Weststadt (Braunschweig), a district of Braunschweig;
The city districts are further subdivided into city neighbourhoods (previously sometimes also referred to as city districts).. According to § 15 and 16 of the main statute of the city of Karlsruhe a local council was set up in each of the districts Durlach (with Aue) and Stupferich, Hohenwettersbach, Wolfartsweier, Grötzingen, Neureut and Wettersbach (Grünwettersbach and Palmbach).
Besides areas that used to be part of the Weststadt-borough (Hardtwaldsiedlung a housing cooperative, founded in the 1920s), large parts of today's borough consist of the former United States Army Smiley Barracks (Originally built in 1937 as the Forstner-Kaserne) and the American Paul Revere Village housing area (founded in 1951).