City Center West (Karlsruhe)

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Coat of arms of the city of Karlsruhe
Coat of arms of the city center-west district
Downtown West
District of the city of Karlsruhe
Location of downtown-west in Karlsruhe
Basic data
Geographer. location   49 ° 0 ′  N , 8 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′  N , 8 ° 24 ′  E
surface   2.4032 km²
Residents   9,814 (as of June 30, 2014)
Population density   4,084 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes   76131, 76133
prefix   0721
Transport links
Federal road   B10
Light rail   S 1 S 2 S 4 S 5 S 11
tram   1 2 3 4
Bus routes   70 73


The Downtown West is a district of Karlsruhe . It borders the neighborhoods Downtown East , South West City , West City and North City . The district is the actual business and service center of Karlsruhe and has around 25,000 jobs with a population of 10,585 (as of 2017). This is where the Karlsruhe Palace and the Federal Constitutional Court are located .

As part of the combined solution transport project, there have been several large construction sites in the district since 2010.

area

To the west and north, the west of the city center is bounded by Rheinhold-Frank-Straße and Adenauerring . The border to the east of the city ​​center runs in the Hardtwald along Linkenheimer Allee, through the palace gardens and past the palace to the east and along Karl-Friedrich-Strasse . In the south, the Kriegsstrasse delimits the district. The inner city west has an area of ​​240.32 hectares.

Together with the city center east, the district forms the city center of Karlsruhe, which was laid out in 1715 when the city was founded. This is where the city's retail and service center is located with the western part of the main shopping street Kaiserstraße and the two shopping centers Ettlinger Tor and Postgalerie .

history

The section of the district to the north of Kaiserstrasse was created in the years after Karlsruhe was founded (1715). Four of the six city gates, the Linkenheimer Tor , the Ettlinger Tor , the Mühlburger Tor and the Karlstor, were located in the area that was extended south to the Kriegsstraße in the course of the 18th and 19th centuries . Air raids during the Second World War destroyed 81% of the housing stock and numerous public buildings in the west of the inner city. The reconstruction on the western Kaiserstraße took place in a modernized form with new delivery streets on both sides in the rear area and individual old buildings preserved or rebuilt as monument islands.

Attractions

The district is home to some interesting buildings, including most notably the Castle , the Weinbrenner facilities warehouse pyramid , Town Hall , St. Stephen's Church and State Mint and the early days - Villas Prince Max Palace and Erbgroßherzogliches Palais . Furthermore, there are large green areas with the palace gardens , the nymph garden and the botanical garden . There are a few squares in the west of the city center, including Ludwigsplatz , Europaplatz , Friedrichsplatz , Stephanplatz and Kaiserplatz . The Rondellplatz and the market square are located on the " Via Triumphalis " at the transition from the city center to the west and the city center.

The cultural offerings in the district include the Badisches Landesmuseum , the Staatliche Kunsthalle , the Staatliche Museum für Naturkunde and the Badischer Kunstverein .

Sights gallery

  • lock

  • Botanical Garden

  • Prinz-Max-Palais

  • Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace

  • Natural History Museum

  • St. Stephen Church

Institutions

There are many public facilities in the west of the inner city. including the town hall , the city ​​library and the Badische Landesbibliothek .

There is also a high density of dishes:

Educational institutions

Web links

Commons : Downtown West  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karlsruhe Statistics Atlas. In: web3.karlsruhe.de. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Karlsruhe: downtown , accessed on January 2, 2015
  3. ↑ Ernst Otto Bräunche: Destruction in the Second World War . In: Dorothea Wiktorin (Hrsg.): Atlas Karlsruhe - 300 years of city history in maps and pictures. Emons, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-413-7 , p. 67.
  4. ^ Karlsruhe: City history. City Chronicle Karlsruhe. City of Karlsruhe, March 6, 2013, accessed on November 27, 2014 .