Market square (Karlsruhe)
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 The Karlsruhe market square with pyramid, city church (left) and town hall (right) |
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| place | Karlsruhe |
| District | Inner city west , inner city east |
| Created | from 1807 |
| Confluent streets | Kaiserstrasse , Karl-Friedrich-Strasse , Zähringerstrasse, Hebelstrasse |
| Buildings | City church , town hall |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Space design | Pyramid , Grand Duke Ludwig Fountain |
The market square is the central square in downtown Karlsruhe . It is located at the intersection of the central axis of the fan-shaped city plan that extends south from the castle and the main shopping street, Kaiserstraße . The dominant buildings on the square are the town church and opposite the town hall , as well as the entire square, classicist designs by Friedrich Weinbrenner . The Karlsruhe pyramid is located on the square . It is the symbol of the city and the tomb of the city's founder, Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach .
history
The Karlsruhe market square was designed by the Baden architect and town planner of classicism Friedrich Weinbrenner as a bourgeois counterweight to the aristocratic seat of Karlsruhe Palace. The first sketches were made around 1800 and were implemented from 1807. Several buildings on the south side of Langen Straße (today's Kaiserstraße), at the intersection with the street that runs south from Schlossplatz , had to be demolished, including the previous town hall and the Konkordienkirche . Since there was a sealed crypt with the remains of Karl Wilhelm under the latter , the city decided to preserve it and to create a tomb on it. A wooden pyramid was temporarily built, which was felt to be so successful that it was replaced by a stone one in 1823 - both were designed by Weinbrenner. Up until the 1820s, several buildings were built on the market square based on his design, especially the town church (1807-1816) and the new town hall (1805-1825).
Design and buildings
The market square forms the climax of a well-planned urban ensemble known as the Via Triumphalis . This runs from Schlossplatz via Marktplatz and Rondellplatz to Ettlinger Tor.
The northern part of the square, intended for trade from the outset, is wider than the southern part and is surrounded by uniformly classicist residential and commercial buildings from the east and west. The north side, which is on Kaiserstraße, was rebuilt after the Second World War in a modified form of post-war modernism with a colonnade corridor (1952 Hotel am Markt by W. Wede; 1952/53 Volksbank by Erich Schelling , demolished in 2010 and then with the Kaiserkarree by Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei replaced). The southern part is more representative. The town hall forms its west side with a risalit exhibited as a portico . On the east side is its counterpart - the city church (now the bishop's church of the united Evangelical regional church ) with a Corinthian portico in colossal order , the side wings of the church were built as a grammar school (left) and lyceum (right). In the north the pyramid forms the middle, in the south the Grand Duke Ludwig fountain with the statue of the Grand Duke. The south side of the square is bounded by the current police station, with which Josef Durm introduced the neo-renaissance into the classical image in 1900 , and the Hotel Kaiserhof.
town hall
Großherzog-Ludwig-
Brunnen, police station and Hotel Kaiserhof
City Church
traffic
The marketplace is a central node of the city and tram with the tram lines 1 and 4, as well as rail lines S1, S11, S2, S5 and S52. During the day there is a lot of tram traffic in the square, which is otherwise a pedestrian zone. As part of the combined solution , construction work to lay the railway underground began in 2010 outside the market square and at the end of 2012 on the square as well.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 32 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 14 ″ E