Weinbrenner and the town's extension after 1800 by Kathrin_E
After Baden's rise to the rank of a Grandduchy in 1806, Grandduke Carl Friedrich intended to give his residential city a more prestigious face. His architect Friedrich Weinbrenner, the director of the state's building adminsitration, planned the new quarters South of Kaiserstraße on a regular plan and designed the new market square in classicist style. The former Lutheran parish church, which had been standing in the middle of the square, was torn down. Weinbrenner erected the new parish church with its dominating classicist porticus on the Eastern side of the square and the town hall as its opposite counterpart. The spot where the old church had been was marked by the pyramid, which serves as grave monument for the heart of the town's founder, Marggrave Carl Wilhelm. The long axis from the palace along Marktstraße, market square, Rondellplatz and Ettlinger Tor was opened as a via triumphalis.Buildings by Friedrich Weinbrenner in Karlsruhe:
- Market square, Stadtkirche and adjacent houses, Rathaus
- Catholic church of St. Stephan
- Palais at Rondellplatz
- Model houses in Stephanienstraße and Akademiestraße
- the Mint
- fountain in Ludwigsplatz
- Stephanienbad
