Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Karlsruhe, Germany

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)

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.

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

Wikipedia: Landgraben (Karlsruhe) (DE)

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 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.

Wikipedia: Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (EN)

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 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.

Wikipedia: Verkehrsmuseum Karlsruhe (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: St. Bernhard (Karlsruhe) (DE), Website

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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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.

Wikipedia: Schloss Gottesaue (DE)