Things to see in Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe is a city in Germany, with an urban population of about 377 thousand. Below are 17 notable places within about 7 km of the centre, ranked by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
1Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Art
The Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery) is an fine art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. Its collection consists of works by mainly German, French, Flemish and Dutch masters from the past eight centuries.
2Karlsruhe Zoo Park
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.
3ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Museum
The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, a cultural institution, was founded in 1989 and, since 1997, is located in a former munitions factory in Karlsruhe, Germany.
4Karlsruhe Pyramid Landmark
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).
5State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe Museum
The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, abbreviated SMNK, is one of the two state of Baden-Württemberg's natural history museums.
6Botanischer Garten Karlsruhe Park
The Botanischer Garten Karlsruhe is a municipal botanical garden located in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This garden should not be confused with the nearby Botanical Garden of the KIT operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
7Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace History
The Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace in Karlsruhe on Kriegsstraße has been the seat of the Federal Court of Justice since 1950.
8Badisches Landesmuseum Museum
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.
9Hauptfriedhof Karlsruhe History
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.
10Karlsburg Castle History
Karlsburg Castle in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe characterizes the history of the Baden since 1563. Only the Prinzessinnenbau ("Princesses' wing") of the historical building still stands.
11Botanical Garden of the KIT Park
The Botanical Garden of the KIT, originally the Botanischer Garten der Universität Karlsruhe, is a botanical garden maintained by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and under the directorate of Peter Nick.
12Turmberg Nature
The Turmberg is a hill located in Durlach, a suburb of Karlsruhe in Germany. It is home to a castle ruin.
13Wattkopf Nature
Wattkopf is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
14Schlossgarten Karlsruhe Park
The Karlsruhe Schlossgarten (engl. palace garden), also called Schlosspark (engl. palace park), is a landscape park situated north of the Karlsruhe Palace in the center of Karlsruhe.
15Tierpark Oberwald Park
The Oberwald in Karlsruhe, Germany, is an urban park-like forest and a Landschaftsschutzgebiet. It is known primarily for its freely accessible animal park, the Tierpark Oberwald, which is part of the Karlsruhe Zoo.
16Friedhof Rüppurr History
The Friedhof Rüppurr is a grave complex in the southern district of Rüppurr in the city of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg. The cemetery area has a size of approx.
17Ettlingen Line History
The Ettlingen Line or Lower Line (Untere Linie) 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.
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