{"id":7535,"date":"2022-10-27T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.passports.top\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2022-10-30T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:44:39","slug":"karlsruhe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.passports.top\/en\/karlsruhe\/","title":{"rendered":"Karlsruhe and the Technical Museum Sinsheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karlsruhe is a small and quiet city in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, formerly known as the home of the Federal Constitutional Court of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We spent a few hours in the city, the major attractions being relatively close to each other.\u00a0If you arrive by car, you can leave it right in front of the palace in the underground parking lot, and from there walk to the Marktplatz or the gardens surrounding the imposing building.\u00a0Below I leave you some places we saw in Karlsruhe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Karlsruhe Palace<\/strong>, built in the Baroque style between 1715 and 1718, is set in the center of a huge circular garden.\u00a0Karl III Wilhelm, the founder of the city, built his residence so that almost all roads led to the palace.\u00a0Until 1918, the building was the residence of the main Dukes of Baden, and in 1921 it was turned into a museum.\u00a0Today, it houses an important collection of prehistoric artefacts from Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and displays of weapons, furniture and porcelain.\u00a0The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday (10:00 \u2013 17:00) and the price of a ticket is 12\u20ac\/person (the archaeology part and the collections) or 5\u20ac\/person (only the collections).<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the gardens surrounding the palace are numerous sculptures, along with monuments and fountains dating from different periods of German history.\u00a0In addition to these, the water lily lake, the pheasant garden and the mini-railway attract daily both locals and tourists who want to relax in a less hectic place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The architect and urban planner Friedrich Weinbrenner conceived the design for the Marktplatz<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the city center square and complex of imposing buildings such as the Evangelical church and town hall \u2013\u00a0in the early 19th century .\u00a0This plan was titled “Via Triumphalis<\/em>” and is now seen as a masterpiece of neoclassical urban planning, and apart from a few modern signs it looks very much like it did when it was completed 200 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the\u00a0Marktplatz<\/strong>\u00a0is also one of the identifiers of the city of Karlsruhe \u2013 the\u00a0Pyramid<\/strong>\u00a0that houses the tomb of Karl III Wilhelm.\u00a0Considered to be the second emblem of the city after the castle, the pyramid was built of red sandstone and is 6.5 meters high, inspired by Egyptian Renaissance architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Natural History Museum<\/strong>\u00a0was first opened to the public in 1785. Over the years, the collections have been expanded and today include exhibits in zoology, entomology, mineralogy and geology.\u00a0The skeleton of a giant salamander, discovered in 1726 and named\u00a0Andrias<\/em> , is also exhibited inside.\u00a0The price of a\u00a0ticket<\/a> is \u20ac5\/person.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From Karlsruhe, on the way to Stuttgart<\/a>, we stopped at the\u00a0<\/span>Technical and Automotive Museum in Sinsheim<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>A fascinating place for fans of cars, planes, locomotives or motorcycles (ticket price: \u20ac17\/person).<\/span><\/p>\n

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