Via Triumphalis (Karlsruhe)

Friedrich Weinbrenner's plan from 1803 for the Karlsruhe market square and Schlossstrasse (today Karl-Friedrich-Strasse)

View of the Via Triumphalis as seen from the castle

Karlsruhe pyramid on the market square

Via Triumphalis is a name for the central north-south street in downtown Karlsruhe . This begins at the palace and extends as a representative sequence of squares from the palace square along Karl-Friedrich-Strasse over the market square and the Rondellplatz to the extension of the Ettlinger Tor . The implementation was done in the 19th century mainly by the master builder of classicism Friedrich Weinbrenner .

history

Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as a planned city by Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach . The original floor plan is based on a 32-beam basic structure with the castle in the middle. Only the southern, fan-shaped quarter was built on. The central axis, which runs south from the center of the castle, initially ended at today's Kaiserstraße . A few years after the founding around the Konkordienkirche, the first market square was set up at the intersection . An appraisal from 1768 shows the first plans to expand the city to the south, in which the current sequence of squares is already indicated. It was first implemented in drawings in a draft by the court building director Maurizio Pedetti from 1787. Based on these plans, the Baden building director Friedrich Weinbrenner implemented his version of the plan for the former Schlossstrasse . The Konkordienkirche had to give way to the enlargement of the central market square from 1807. Today the Karlsruhe pyramid is located at this place as the symbol of Karlsruhe.

The name Via Triumphalis was only given to the centrally laid out street over time.

The official name of Via Triumphalis is now Karl-Friedrich-Straße, named after Grand Duke Karl Friedrich . From Ettlinger Tor, it turns into Ettlinger Straße and there today leads via the Karlsruhe Congress Center , the Karlsruhe Zoo to the main train station .

Buildings

The following well-known and important buildings in Karlsruhe are located on the centrally located Via Triumphalis:

• Square of Fundamental Rights
• Karlsruhe pyramid
• town hall
• City Church
• Margravial palace
• Roundabout
• Ettlinger Tor shopping center
• Grand Ducal District Office
• Oberpostdirektion Karlsruhe

photos

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  Grand-Ducal Baden District Office, today police station
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  Karlsruhe market square
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  Karlsruhe City Church
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  Constitutional column on Rondellplatz
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  Ettlinger Tor
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  View to the south

literature

• Gottfried Leiber : Friedrich Weinbrenner's urban development work for Karlsruhe .
  • Part 1: Baroque town planning and Weinbrenner's first classicist designs. Braun, Karlsruhe 1996, ISBN 3-7650-9041-7 .
  • Part 2: The city development and city expansion plans 1801–1826. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2903-2 .
• Hubert Doerrschuck, Herbert Meininger: Karlsruhe. City history and image documentation. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1984, ISBN 3-7650-8041-1
• City of Karlsruhe City Archives (Ed.): Karlsruhe. The city history. Badenia, Karlsruhe 1998, ISBN 3-7617-0353-8
• David Depenau, Ernot Drücke: Karlsruhe then and now - Comparative city views , regional culture publisher, ISBN 3-89735-461-6 .
• Wulf Schirmer : Karlsruhe city center - the market square . In: Clear and full of light as a rule - planned cities of the modern age , exhibition catalog, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe 1990, pages 313–328

Web links

• Information on the website of the city of Karlsruhe

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leiber: Friedrich Weinbrenner's urban development work for Karlsruhe. Part 1, p. 163