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KARLSRUHE, or CARLSRUHE , a See also:city of See also:Germany, See also:capital of the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Baden, 33 M. S.W. Of See also:Heidelberg, on the railway See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main-See also:Basel, and 39 M. N. W. of See also:Stuttgart. Pop. (1895), 84,030; (1905), 111,200. It stands on an elevated See also:plain, 5 M. E. of the See also:Rhine and on the fringe of the Hardtwald See also:forest. Karlsruhe takes its name from Karl Wilhelm, See also:margrave of Baden, who, owing to disputes with the citizens of See also:Durlach, erected here in 1715 a See also:hunting seat, around which the See also:town has been built. The city is surrounded by beautiful parks and gardens. The See also:palace (Schloss), built in 1751-1776 on the site of the previous erection of 1715, is a plain See also:building in the old See also:French See also:style, composed of a centre and two wings, presenting nothing remarkable except the octagon See also:tower (Bleiturm), from the See also:summit of which a splendid view of the city and surrounding See also:country is obtained, and the See also:marble See also:saloon, in which the See also:meridian of See also:Cassini was fixed or See also:drawn.

In front of the palace is the See also:

Great Circle, a semicircular See also:line of buildings, containing the See also:government offices. From the palace the See also:principal streets, fourteen in number, radiate in the See also:form of an See also:expanded See also:fan, in a S.E., S. and S.W. direction, and are again intersected by parallel streets. This fan-like See also:plan of the older city has, however, been abandoned in the more See also:modern extensions. Karlsruhe has several See also:fine public squares, the principal of which are the Schlossplatz, with See also:Schwanthaler's statue of the grand See also:duke Karl See also:Friedrich in the centre, and See also:market square (Marktplatz), with a See also:fountain and a statue of See also:Louis, grand duke of Baden. In the centre of the Rondelplatz is an See also:obelisk in See also:honour of the grand duke Karl Wilhelm. The finest See also:street is the Kaiserstrasse, See also:running from See also:east to See also:west and having a length of a mile and a See also:half and a See also:uniform breadth of 72 ft. In it are several ofthe See also:chief public buildings, notably the technical high school, the See also:arsenal and the See also:post See also:office. Among other notable buildings are the town See also:hall; the See also:theatre; the hall of representatives; the See also:mint; the See also:joint museum of the grand-ducal and See also:national collections (natural See also:history, See also:archaeology, See also:ethnology, See also:art and a library of over 150,000 volumes) ; the palace of the See also:heir-apparent, a See also:late See also:Renaissance building of 1891-1896; the imperial See also:bank (1893); the national See also:industrial hall, with an See also:exhibition of machinery; the new See also:law courts; and the hall of fine arts, which shelters a See also:good picture See also:gallery. The city has six Evangelical and four See also:Roman See also:Catholic Churches. The most noteworthy of these are the Evangelical town See also:church, the See also:burial-See also:place of the margraves of Baden; the Christuskirche, and the Bernharduskirche. Karlsruhe possesses further the See also:Zahringen museum of curiosities, which is in the See also:left wing of the Schloss; an architectural school (1891) ; industrial art school and museum; See also:cadet school (1892); botanical and electrotechnical institutes; and horticultural and agricultural See also:schools. Of its See also:recent public monuments maybe mentioned one to See also:Joseph See also:Victor von See also:Scheffel (1826-1886); a See also:bronze equestrian statue of the See also:emperor See also:William I.

(1896); and, a memorial of the 1870-71 See also:

war. Karlsruhe is the headquarters of the XIV. See also:German See also:army See also:corps. Since 1870 the See also:industry of the city has grown rapidly, as well as the city itself. There are large railway workshops; and the principal branches of industry are the making of loco-motives, carriages, tools and machinery, See also:jewelry, See also:furniture, gloves, See also:cement, carpets, See also:perfumery, See also:tobacco and See also:beer. There is an important arms factory. Maxau, on the Rhine, serves as the See also:river See also:port of Karlsruhe and is connected with it by a See also:canal finished in 1901. See Fecht, Geschichte der See also:Haupt- and Residenzstadt Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, 1887) ; F. von Weech, Karlsruhe, Geschichte der Stadt and ihrer Verwaltung (Karlsruhe, 1893-1902) ; Naeher, The Umgebung der Residenz Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, 1888) ; and the See also:annual Chronik der Haupt- and Residenzstadt Karlsruhe.

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