Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Karlsruhe, Germany

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Fasanenschlösschen (Karlsruhe) (DE)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Kleine Kirche (Karlsruhe) (DE)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Landgraben is a former open drainage ditch in Karlsruhe, Germany, which was converted into a sewer in the late 19th century.

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The parish church of St. Stephen is a neoclassical Roman Catholic church building in Karlsruhe by Friedrich Weinbrenner.

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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.

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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.

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The Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace in Karlsruhe on Kriegsstraße has been the seat of the Federal Court of Justice since 1950.

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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.

Wikipedia: Museum für Neue Kunst (Karlsruhe) (DE)