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 Teresa, Charlie, Victoria,
Bernd by Nemorino
Thanks to Christine (tini58de) for organizing this nice meeting and for doing the "official" write-up about it afterwards.
Unfortunately this "official" write-up seems to have disappeared since the latest VT relaunch, but you can still have a look at my travelogue about this meeting, here on my Karlsruhe page.
A year later we had a second annual Glühwein meeting, and in 2006 we had the third. So it really is becoming something of a tradition. If you are going to be anywhere near Karlsruhe next December, please come and join us. Leave a Comment
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 Outside the Café Wien by Nemorino
Sunday brunch at the Café Wien is delicious. Fortunately we had a couple hours' time to enjoy it all.
Afterwards we went out to Durlach, a district of Karlsruhe, and had a nice cup of Glühwein (which is called glintwein in Latvian, did you know that?) but I couldn't stay for the Carnival parade because I had to get back to Frankfurt in time for the premiere of Gounod's opera Faust -- a brilliant premiere, by the way, conducted by Johannes Debus, with Christoph Loy as stage director. Leave a Comment
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 1. VT picnic on the lawn
behind the castle by Nemorino, 1 more photos
On August 5, 2006, we had a nice VT meeting and picnic in Karlsruhe, first in the pub Multi-Kulti and then here on the lawn behind the castle.
Second photo: Our meeting point was one of the best-known landmarks of Karlsruhe, the Pyramid on the Market Square (Marktplatz).
For more photos of the people at this meeting, please have a look at my travelogue about it. Leave a Comment
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 Jugendstil pharmacy
building on Kaiserstraße by Kathrin_E
I have already written several tips on singular buildings and works of art (and will continue to do so), but for a general overview here's a list:
Where to find Jugendstil architecture in Karlsruhe?
1. the Hauptbahnhof / central station
2. Oststadt:
Lutherkirche (see tip). The church and the houses of the adjacent street were planned as an ensemble.
3. City centre:
Hofapotheke / court pharmacy, Kaiserstraße corner Waldstraße (photo)
Oberkirchenrat / church administration, Blumenstraße
several buildings along Amalienstraße
Fountain on Stephansplatz (see tip)
4. around Mühlburger Tor:
Christuskirche (neo-gothic with Jugendstil ornaments, see tip)
Baischstraße off Kaiserplatz (see tip)
5. Weststadt
A lot of villas and condos in all the streets around Gutenbergplatz, Sophienstraße, Weinbrennerstraße, Western part of Kriegsstraße, Eisenlohrstraße (see pictures in travelogue).
Take a tram to Yorckstraße and work your way South through the streets, or takte the tram 5 and get off at Weinbrennerplatz or Hübschstraße.
6. Musikerviertel
Between Weststadt and Mühlburg, North of Kaiserstraße. One of the best and prettiest (read: most expensive) living quarters in town with Jugendstil and late 19th century villas.
7. Südweststadt
Late 19th century quarter with occasional Jugendstil buildings
8. Museum am Markt
The Museum am Markt, which is part of the Badisches Landesmuseum (but not located in the Schloss), shows a fine collection of Jugenstil arts and crafts.
Location: Marktstraße, the street leading from Marktplatz towards the Schloss.
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 Municipal Library by Bernd_L
They have several computers available for public use. The access is limited up to half an hour and free of charge unless you want to have print-outs.
Address:
Ständehausstrasse 2, D-76133 Karlsruhe
Telefon:
++49(0)721-133-4246
Website:
www.karlsruhe.de/Bildung/Bib/surfen.htm
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 Monument showing that Karl was
once Carl by toonsarah, 1 more photos
The city takes its name from Margrave Karl Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach. Karl Wilhelm built a retreat here in what was then forest – this retreat was to become the Schloss and the forest, Karlsruhe. The name of the city means in fact, Karl’s Rest, because it was indeed his place of rest and relaxation. At that time the name “Karl” was spelt with a “C” as can be seen on the monument in my photo (taken at the junction of Erbprinzenstraße and Karl Friedrichstraße).
Karlsruhe became the capital of Baden-Durlach from 1715, following a dispute between Karl Wilhelm and the citizens of his previous capital, Durlach, and remained so until 1771, and thereafter was the capital of Baden until 1945.
The city was planned with the tower of the palace (Schloss) at the centre and 32 streets radiating out from it like spokes on a wheel, or ribs on a folding fan – the German nickname for Karlsruhe is Fächerstadt or "fan city". Almost all of these streets survive today.
The city centre is the oldest part of town and lies south of the palace in the quadrant defined by nine of the streets. The central part of the palace runs east-west, and there are two wings of the palace, each at a 45° angle to the centre, so that they point south-east and south-west, i.e. parallel with streets at the ends of the quadrant defining the city centre.
Some famous people associated with Karlsruhe:
~ It is the birthplace of Karl Benz (1844–1929), inventor of the automobile and founder of Benz & Co.
~ In the late 1880s, Professor Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves at the University of Karlsruhe
~ Reinhold Frank, a German lawyer who worked for the resistance in Nazi Germany, ran a law practice in Karlsruhe.
~ Oliver Kahn, goalkeeper of Bayern Munich and former goalkeeper of the German national football team was also in the city in 1969
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~ VirtualTourist was invented when J.R. Johnson met Tilman Reissfelder at a symposium at Karlsruhe’s Technical University.
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 public restroom by Bernd_L
You throw in 25 ct and the door opens. Don't worry about hygiene. These restrooms are automatically cleaned and disinfected after every use. Leave a Comment
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Because of the numerous indoor activities Karlsruhe can be visited all year long. But if you want to have some nice weather spring and summer are the best seasons. Usually only a few days in summer are really hot and unbearable. So the best time to visit is from May until the end of September.
If you want to know the current weather conditions see the
10 days weather forecast for Karlsruhe.
If you plan your vacation long time ahead see also the statistics about average climate data of Karlsruhe. This info is only available in german, but I'm sure you'll understand it. Leave a Comment
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Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 by Marggrave Carl Wilhelm of Baden. At first he had only planned a small palace for his hunting trips, but soon he decided to build his new residence here.
The ground plan of the town is unique: The tower of the palace is the center of a wheel with 32 spokes. One third of the circle is occupied by the town, the other two thirds belong to the park. This ground plan is still visible on today's town map.
A model in Badisches Landesmuseum (photo 2 and 3) shows what the baroque town and park looked like.
What's left of the baroque architecture in Karlsruhe? Not much, in fact...
- the palace (Schloss)
- Fasanenschlösschen (1765) in the Eastern part of the Schlosspark and 3 chinese pavillons
- Kleine Kirche, the former calvinist parish church (1773-1776)
- two houses in the Eastern part of Kaiserstraße: the Seilerei (1723) and the adjacent building
- the so-called Schwedenpalais (1768-1770)
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Many thanks to the ABC squad (Andrea, Bernd and Christine aka Jadefrau, Bernd_L and tini58de) for organizing this great meeting in Karlsruhe from May 30th to June 1st, 2008.
VT manager Giampiero gave an enthusiastic thank-you speech in which he apologized for "peddling in clichés" -- the cliché in this case being that the Germans are always so well organized, but in this case they certainly were.
While I can't claim to have spoken with all 130 VT members who attended this meeting, I did get around to quite a few of them, especially ones I have corresponded with online. I really enjoyed meeting these folks in person after reading their tips and exchanging comments and e-mails.
It was also very interesting to meet the founders of VirtualTourist, J.R. Johnson and Tilman Reissfelder, as well as the General Manager Giampiero and the controller Stephanie Johnson (J.R.'s mother). Her original function was to bring pizzas in the early days while J.R. and Tilman were putting in long hours setting up the site, but she is now the controller of VirtualTourist Corporation and comes to big meetings bearing gifts such as VT pins, caps, clogs, T-shirts and pens. I had some good talks with Stephanie and her husband Gerry during our tours of Karlsruhe and Baden Baden.
Second photo: VT members on a tour of Karlsruhe.
Third photo: Touring the nearby town of Baden Baden.
Fourth photo: Sunday brunch at Lehner's Wirtshaus in Karlsruhe.
Please also have a look at my travelogue about EuroMeet 2008. Leave a Comment
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