Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Karlsruhe, Germany
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Experience Karlsruhe in Germany in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in KarlsruheIndividual Sights in KarlsruheSight 1: Botanischer Garten des KIT
The Botanical Garden at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is assigned to the Botanical Institute under Peter Nick and serves both research and teaching. In addition, the conservation of endangered plant species is another core task. Karlsruhe also has a second botanical garden in Karlsruhe, the Schlossgarten. Both botanical gardens emerged from the garden of Karlsruhe Palace and complement each other in their functions, because the palace garden served and still serves above all the recreation and aesthetic pleasure of the population.
Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (DE)
Sight 2: Fasanenschlösschen
The Fasanenschlösschen or Fasanengarten-Schlösschen is a pleasure and tea house in the Karlsruhe Fasanengarten east of the castle tower, which was built in the years 1764 to 1765 in the Chinese style and is grouped together with two opposite pavilions, also in the Chinese style, as a building ensemble around a longitudinal oval square. Initially, the building was used for the breeding of pheasants, until around 1773 it was converted into a small castle in the course of the transformation of the castle garden into an English landscape garden.
Sight 3: 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.
Sight 4: 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.
Sight 5: Schlossgartenbahn
The Karlsruhe palace garden railway is a parking train with a track width of 600 mm, which runs on a 2.7 km long circuit with only one train station through the Karlsruhe Castle Garden.
Sight 6: 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.
Sight 7: Prinz-Max-Palais
The Prinz-Max-Palais, initially Palais Schmieder, was built in Karlsruhe between 1881 and 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 onwards.
Sight 8: 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 Karlsruhe. It was opened for the first time in 1926, making it one of the oldest literature museums in Germany.
Sight 9: Stephaniebrunnen
The Stephanienbrunnen is an ornamental fountain on Stephanplatz in Karlsruhe, Germany. It was unveiled in 1905 and is a listed building.
Sight 10: St. Stephan
The parish church of St. Stephen is a neoclassical Roman Catholic church in Karlsruhe by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
Sight 11: Josef Heid
Josef Heid was a German politician and member of the Baden state parliament.
Sight 12: Karl Grosshans
Karl Julius Großhans was a German typesetter, journalist and politician (SPD). He was a victim of persecution by the Nazi regime.
Sight 13: Christian Daniel Nussbaum
Christian Daniel Nussbaum was a German politician (SPD) and member of the Baden state parliament. In March 1933, during the National Socialist "seizure of power", Nussbaum shot two policemen in Freiburg im Breisgau who wanted to take him into "protective custody". Nussbaum was later declared incompetent; the deaths of the two policemen were used by the National Socialists in Baden as a pretext for intensified action against the workers' movement.
Sight 14: Georg Reinbold
Georg Reinbold was a German Social Democratic politician. During the Weimar Republic, he was state chairman of the SPD in Baden.
Sight 15: Hermann Böning
Hermann Franz Adolf Böning was a German politician (KPD) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. He was a member of the Baden state parliament from 1929 to 1933.
Sight 16: 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.
Sight 17: Evangelische Stadtkirche
The Evangelical City Church is a Protestant church built in the early 19th century in the city center of Karlsruhe. It is one of the two church buildings of the old and medium-sized 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.
Sight 18: Kleine Kirche
The Small Church is one of the oldest church buildings in the city of Karlsruhe. It is located on Karlsruhe's main shopping street Kaiserstraße near the market square. From Karlsruhe Palace, Kreuzstraße, one of the nine streets of the fan-shaped city layout, leads to the main façade of the Small Church.
Sight 19: Dr. Guido Leser
Guido Leser war ein deutscher Richter und liberaler Politiker jüdischer Herkunft.
Sight 20: Dr. Ludwig Marum
Ludwig Marum was a German politician, an early victim of the Nazi Party after it came to power in 1933.
Sight 21: Leopold Rückert
Leopold Ferdinand Robert Rückert was a German politician of the SPD.
Sight 22: Julius Helmstädter
Julius Helmstädter was a German politician (SPD).
Sight 23: Georg Lechleiter
Georg Lechleiter was chairman of the communist faction in the state parliament of the Republic of Baden and head of a resistance group in Mannheim during the National Socialist era.
Sight 24: Landgraben
The Landgraben is a formerly open drainage ditch in Karlsruhe, Germany, which was converted into a sewer in the late 19th century.
Sight 25: Badische Landesbibliothek
The Baden State Library is a large universal library in Karlsruhe. Together with the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, the BLB is the legal deposit and regional library for Baden-Württemberg.
Sight 26: Erbgroßherzogliches Palais
The Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace in Karlsruhe on Kriegsstraße has been the seat of the Federal Court of Justice since 1950.
Sight 27: Dr. Leopold Kullmann
Leo Kullmann was a German lawyer, politician and victim of National Socialism.
Sight 28: Kaiserplatz
Der Kaiserplatz ist ein Platz in der Karlsruher Innenstadt-West. Er befindet sich am westlichen Ende der Kaiserstraße in unmittelbarer Nähe des ehemaligen Mühlburger Tors und steht somit an der Grenze zwischen der Weststadt und der Innenstadt. In der Mitte des Platzes befindet sich das Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal, ein nach Osten ausgerichtetes Reiterstandbild Wilhelm I.
Sight 29: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal
The Kaiser Wilhelm I Monument is an equestrian statue on the Kaiserplatz in Karlsruhe. It is surrounded by trees in the center of the square and faces east, so it seems as if Kaiser Wilhelm I is riding into the city.
Sight 30: Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in Karlsruhe, Germany. It was built between 1896 and 1900 by the Karlsruhe architects Curjel & Moser at the Mühlburger Tor, the beginning of the Weststadt. Today it is protected as a cultural monument of special importance.
Sight 31: Leibdragonerdenkmal
The Dragoon Monument on Kaiserallee near the Mühlburger Tor in Karlsruhe (Baden) is dedicated to the 1st Baden Dragoon Regiment No. 20. It was created in 1926–1929 by Kurt Edzard.
Sight 32: Sandkorn-Theater
Sandkorn-Theater is a theatre in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Sight 33: Bonifatiuskirche
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Bonifatius is located in the Weststadt of Karlsruhe, a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The building is registered as an architectural monument with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. The parish belongs to the deanery of Karlsruhe in the Archdiocese of Freiburg.
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