33 Sights in Karlsruhe, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Karlsruhe, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 33 sights are available in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is a theatre and opera house in Karlsruhe, Germany. It has existed in its present form and place at Ettlinger Tor since 1975. Achim Thorwald became the Intendant in summer 2002 and held that post until the end of the 2010/11 season. Peter Spuhler succeeded him at the beginning of the 2011/12 season and continues to serve in that post.
The Turmberg ruins, formerly Hohenberg Castle, are the ruins of a spur castle at about 256 m above sea level on the spur tip of the Turmberg 1000 meters east of the center of Durlach, a district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg, and is now used as an observation tower.
3. Karlsruhe Zoo
The Karlsruhe Zoo is a city garden with a zoo in the southwest of Karlsruhe, Germany. It also encompasses the outer area; Tierpark Oberwald in the southeast of the city. The main area totals 22 hectares, and the Oberwald Zoo has an area of 16 hectares. A total of around 3000 animals of over 240 species live at the Zoologische Stadtgarten Karlsruhe. The city garden is located north of the Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and south of the Karlsruhe Congress between the Karlsruhe districts of Südstadt and Südweststadt. The zoo was opened in 1865, making it one of the oldest zoos in Germany. The city garden and zoo form a common, enclosed area and cannot be visited separately.
4. ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst
The ZKM | Museum of New Art was a museum of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, which emerged in 1999 from the Museum of Contemporary Art. As a "collector museum", the Museum of New Art under the direction of Götz Adriani was managed as a museum that is quasi -independent. With the departure of Götz Adriani in 2004, the Museum of New Art under the direction of Ingrid Leonie Severin was reintegrated to the ZKM as a department. In 2017, the Museum of New Art and the Media Museum were formally dissolved as part of the restructuring of the ZKM and the collections of the houses were brought together.
5. Bernharduskirche
The Church of St. Bernard is a Roman Catholic parish church in the neo-Gothic style in Karlsruhe's Oststadt. With its 86 m high church tower facing the city centre, the highest in the city, the building at Durlacher Tor forms the structural end of Kaiserstraße in the east, which can be seen from afar. In terms of urban morphology, the church is a counterpart to the Christ Church at the Mühlburger Tor west of the city centre. St. Bernard is considered an important neo-Gothic sacred building in the former Grand Duchy of Baden and is protected as a cultural monument of particular importance.
6. Fasanenschlösschen
The pheasant's castle or pheasant garden lock is a lust and tea house in the Karlsruhe Fasanengarten east of the castle tower, which was built in the Chinese style from 1764 to 1765 and, together with two opposite pavilions, also stayed in Chinese style, as a building ensemble around one Grouped longitudinal. First of all, the building was used for the rearing of pheasants until around 1773 it was converted into an English landscape garden to a castle in the course of the redesign of the castle garden into an English landscape garden.
7. Hauptfriedhof
The Hauptfriedhof in Karlsruhe is one of the oldest German communal rural cemeteries. In 1871, the first plans to build a new burial ground outside the city center began. The cemetery was laid out in 1874 by Josef Durm in the Rintheim district, east of the actual city, after the inner-city Alter Friedhof Karlsruhe in the Oststadt had become too small. The main cemetery has grown from its original size of 15.3 hectares in 1873 to over 34 hectares. The graves of more than 32,000 deceased are currently in the cemetery.
8. Badisches Landesmuseum
The Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe is the large cultural, art and regional history museum of the Baden region of Baden-Württemberg. With its globally significant collections, representing more than 50,000 years of international cultural history, it conveys history and historical living environments. Its collections range from prehistory and early history to the Middle Ages and the 21st century. The museum was founded in 1919 and opened in 1921 in the rooms of Karlsruhe Palace.
9. Denkmal Karlsruher Lokalbahn „Lobberle“
The Karlsruhe Local Railway was a metre-gauge light railway which formerly connected Spöck, Karlsruhe and Durmersheim, now in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. After its opening in 1890/91, it had little commercial success, so that by 1938 most sections of it had been shut down. Some modest residual traffic in the city of Karlsruhe continued until 1955. Parts of it route are now used by line S2 of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn.
10. Altes Stadion
The Old University Stadium in Karlsruhe is a sports stadium designed in the 1920s by the architect Hermann Alker and completed in 1930, of which only the grandstand building remains today. It is located on the South Campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at Paulckeplatz in the Karlsruhe district of Innenstadt-Ost and is registered as a cultural monument of special importance in the list of monuments.
11. Pyramid
The Karlsruhe Pyramid is a pyramid made of red sandstone, located in the centre of the market square of Karlsruhe, Germany. It was erected in the years 1823–1825 over the vault of the city's founder, Margrave Charles III William (1679–1738). The pyramid is regarded as Karlsruhe's second emblem, the city's absolutist layout in the shape of a folding fan being the first.
12. Verkehrsmuseum Karlsruhe
The Karlsruhe Transport Museum exhibits the history of transport from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. The collection includes, among other things, historic bicycles, motorcycles and cars, as well as railway models. In addition, technical inventions are also illustrated and developers from the region are introduced, such as Karl Drais and Felix Wankel.
13. Evangelische Stadtkirche
The Evangelical City Church is a Protestant church built in the early 19th century in the city center of Karlsruhe, Germany. It is one of the two church buildings of the old and medium-sized town parish of Karlsruhe as well as the preaching place of the regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Baden and thus the main church of the regional church.
14. Kaiserplatz
Kaiserplatz is a square in Karlsruhe's Innenstadt-West. It is located at the western end of Kaiserstraße in the immediate vicinity of the former Mühlburger Tor and thus stands on the border between the Weststadt and the city centre. In the middle of the square is the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument, an east-facing equestrian statue of Wilhelm I.
15. Talstation
The Turmbergbahn is a funicular railway in Karlsruhe in Germany. It is the oldest operating funicular in Germany. From Karlsruhe's former center Durlach, the line climbs the Turmberg, which on a clear day provides a lookout point with views of the Rhine Valley, the Palatinate forest and the adjacent parts of Alsace.
16. Kleine Kirche
The small church is one of the oldest church buildings in the city of Karlsruhe. It stands on Karlsruhe's main business road Kaiserstrasse near the market square. The Kreuzstraße, one of the nine streets of the fan -shaped city floor, leads from Karlsruhe to the main facade of the small church.
17. Lauterberg
The Lauterberg is an artificially poured hill in the city garden of Karlsruhe, created from 1889 to 1893. Originally the hill was built for water supply, and inside it is a former water-high tank. The material for the filling originated from the excavation of two lakes in the surrounding area.
18. Lutherkirche
The Evangelical Lutherkirche in Karlsruhe was built from 1905 to 1907 according to plans by the architectural firm Curjel & Moser in the Oststadt and is of particular importance as a cultural monument. The Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation appointed them to the monument of December 2018.
19. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde
The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, abbreviated SMNK, is one of the two state of Baden-Württemberg's natural history museums. Together with the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart it is one of the most important repositories for state-owned natural history collections.
Wikipedia: State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (EN), Website
20. Karlsruhe Palace
Karlsruhe Palace was built in 1715 for Margrave Charles III William of Baden-Durlach after a dispute with the citizens of his previous capital, Durlach. The city of Karlsruhe has since grown around it. The building is now home to the main museum of the Badisches Landesmuseum.
21. Redan-Brustwehr
The Ettlingen Line or Lower Line was a defensive line built in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession from brushwood (Verhauen) and palisades, which replaced the 1701 Bühl-Stollhofen Line after that had been destroyed in May 1707 and levelled by French troops.
22. Museum für Literatur am Oberrhein
The Museum of Literature on the Upper Rhine in Karlsruhe is a museum about literary life in the Upper Rhine region. It is maintained by the Literary Society of Karlsruhe. It was first opened in 1926, making it one of the oldest literature museums in Germany.
23. Botanischer Garten
The Botanischer Garten Karlsruhe is a municipal botanical garden located in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This garden should not be confused with the nearby Botanischer Garten der Universität Karlsruhe operated by the University of Karlsruhe.
24. Stadtkirche
The Evangelical City Church is a listed church building in Grötzingen, a district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It belongs to the Evangelical Parish of Karlsruhe-Grötzingen in the Evangelical Church District of Karlsruhe and Durlach.
25. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in Karlsruhe. It was built from 1896 to 1900 by the Karlsruhe architects Curjel & Moser at the Mühlburger Tor, the beginning of the western city. Today it is of particular importance as a cultural monument.
26. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal
The Kaiser Wilhelm I Monument is an equestrian statue on the Kaiserplatz in Karlsruhe, Germany. It is located there surrounded by trees in the center of the square and faces east, so that it seems as if Kaiser Wilhelm I is riding into the city.
27. Prinz-Max-Palais
The Prinz-Max-Palais, initially Palais Schmieder, was built in Karlsruhe from 1881 to 1884 according to designs by Josef Durm in the Neo-Renaissance style. It is named after Prince Max of Baden, who lived in the palace from 1900.
28. Botanischer Garten des KIT
The Botanischer Garten der Universität Karlsruhe is a botanical garden maintained by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology directorate of Peter Nick. It is located at Am Fasanengarten 2, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten der Universität Karlsruhe (EN)
29. Schloss Gottesaue
Schloss Gottesaue is a Renaissance castle in Karlsruhe's Oststadt district, which has been destroyed and rebuilt several times on the site of a former Benedictine abbey. It is now the seat of the Karlsruhe University of Music.
30. Bürklin'sches Mausoleum
The Bürklin Mausoleum is a burial place in the main cemetery of Karlsruhe and rises in the northeastern part of the area. This octagonal building is the former burial place of the family of the politician Albert Bürklin.
31. Evangelische Stadtkirche
The city church of Durlach is an evangelical hall church in Durlach, the origins of which go back to the 13th century. It has been rebuilt several times over the centuries and received its current baroque figure in 1701.
32. Großherzogliche Grabkapelle
The Grand Ducal Baden Funeral Chapel in the Fasanengarten in Karlsruhe was built between 1889 and 1896 by Hermann Hemberger according to preliminary designs by Franz Baer and Friedrich Hemberger in Karlsruhe's Oststadt.
Wikipedia: Großherzogliche Grabkapelle Karlsruhe (DE), Website
33. Basler Tor
The Basel Gate Tower in Durlach, a district of Karlsruhe in northern Baden-Württemberg, is the last surviving city gate of the former margravial residence. The gate tower is a protected cultural monument.
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