Circle (Karlsruhe)
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| Basic data | |
| place | Karlsruhe |
| District | Inner city east , inner city west |
| Hist. Names | Inner circle, small circle |
| Name received | 1870 |
| Connecting roads | Hans-Thoma-Strasse, New Circle |
| Cross streets | Waldstrasse, Herrenstrasse, Ritterstrasse, Lammstrasse, Karl-Friedrich-Strasse , Kreuzstrasse, Adlerstrasse, Kronenstrasse, Waldhornstrasse, Englerstrasse |
| Places | Square of Fundamental Rights |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 750 |
The circle is a street in the center of Karlsruhe . The street was laid out in the first years of the city's foundation and, as part of the Karlsruhe fan, leads in a semicircle around the castle tower as the center. The circle is named after the exact round layout of the street. Until 1870 it was called the inner or small circle, in contrast to Schlossplatz , which was considered an outer, front or large circle.
Location and course
The circle is located south of the castle and north of Kaiserstraße and is around 750 meters long. The circle is continued in the east by the Neue Zirkel (bounded by Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße) and in the west by Hans-Thoma-Straße (bounded by Waldstraße). Together with the Ahaweg in the north, the four streets form a circle around the castle tower as the center and a radius of a good 425 meters. The Via Triumphalis crosses the circle on about half the length of the street, at this point is the place of the basic rights between the circle and Schlossplatz.
As part of the City Route North , the circle is largely a bicycle road . There is also a car park with 432 spaces at the circle .
Circular constructions
On the north side of the street are the circular buildings, a series of uniformly designed buildings originally designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner . While the buildings were initially inhabited by privileged citizens, civil servants and officers, later some Baden ministries were located there . Due to severe damage in the course of the Second World War , the buildings were then rebuilt in a functional style as government buildings, taking into account the uniform arcades planned by Weinbrenner towards the palace square. Today the buildings are home to the regional council , the district court , the headquarters of the L-Bank and the tax office . Some of the buildings are cultural monuments , including the buildings of the regional council, the L-Bank and the tax office.
Web links
- Circle in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Street names in Karlsruhe. (No longer available online.) Property Office Karlsruhe, archived from the original on February 12, 2019 ; accessed on July 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Database of cultural monuments. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on July 29, 2015 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 13 ″ E