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The first building was constructed by Jakob Friedrich von Batzendorf. The city was planned with the tower of the palace (Schloss) at the centre and 32 streets radiating out from it like spokes on a wheel, or ribs on a folding fan, so that a nickname for Karlsruhe in German is the "fan city" (Fächerstadt).
Karlsburg Castle in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe characterizes the history of the Baden since 1563. Only the Prinzessinnenbau ("Princesses' wing") of the historical building still stands. Pforzheim was the residence of Margrave Charles II , until he decided in 1563 to move to Durlach.
The striking beginning at Mühlburger-Tor-Platz is the Rathaus West (city hall), followed by the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (state archive), the Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe (court), the Justizvollzugsanstalt Karlsruhe (prison, designed by Josef Durm in 1897 in the style of an Italian palazzo with consideration for the surroundings), the ...
This is a list of castles and other such fortifications and palaces or country homes in Germany. Included are castles (German: Burg, Schloss), forts (German: Festung), palaces (German: Schloss, Palais, Palast), country or stately homes and manors, and even follies.
A castle built on commission by Charles Eugene for his wife Franziska von Hohenheim. [2] Construction dragged on for 21 years, finally ending with the Duke's death in 1793. [ 3 ] After a further 20 years of continued maintenance of the gardens surrounding the abandoned and decaying palace , King William I and his wife Catherine founded an ...
The Karlsruhe Schlossgarten (engl. palace garden), also called Schlosspark (engl. palace park), [1] is a landscape park situated north of the Karlsruhe Palace in the center of Karlsruhe. It represents an extension of the palace grounds to the north, serves the people as a local holiday spot and is regularly used for events.
At the end of the 19th century, the city of Karlsruhe opened up parts of today's Oststadt as a building area. To this day, the district is characterized by its coexistence of trade, crafts and living. [1] The area south of Durlacher Allee, the Gottesaue, has a much older history. The Benedictine monastery Gottesaue was founded here in 1094.
Germany's largest oil refinery is located in Karlsruhe, at the western edge of the city, directly on the river Rhine. The Technologieregion Karlsruhe is a loose confederation of the region's cities in order to promote high tech industries; today, about 20% of the region's jobs are in research and development .