Karlsplatz (Heidelberg)
The Karlsplatz is a right at the Heidelberg main road situated public space to the foot of Heidelberg Castle . It is named after the Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Baden .
The square was only laid out in 1805 instead of the demolished Franciscan monastery (barefoot monastery). In the middle of the square is the Sebastian-Münster-Brunnen, which was created by Michael Schoenholtz in 1978 when Karlsplatz was redesigned as part of the construction of an underground car park. It is reminiscent of the cosmographer and humanist Sebastian Münster , who worked in the Franciscan monastery for several years at the beginning of the 16th century.
On Karlsplatz are not only the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , the Palais Boisserée and the Roßhirt residential building , but also two of the oldest and most famous Heidelberg student pubs and several connecting houses, including the historic Mittermaierhaus . Generations of fraternity students have already been guests in the Gasthaus Zum Seppl, built in 1634, and the Gasthaus Zum Roten Ochsen, built right next door in 1703 .
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation (publisher): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, city district of Heidelberg , Thorbecke-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolf von Oechelhäuser: The art monuments of the district of Heidelberg . Verlag JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1913, p. 345 ( digitized version )
- ^ City of Heidelberg: Sebastian-Münster-Brunnen
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 44 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 46" E