Karlsruhe (deu)

Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe ranks 186th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Salvador, Bahia, Mannheim, and Adelaide. Memorable people born in Karlsruhe include Richard Willstätter, Hans Frank, and Walther von Reichenau. Memorable people who died in Karlsruhe include Karl Drais, Gotthard Heinrici, and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden. Karlsruhe has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Karlsruhe is located in Germany.

Karlsruhe is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. It is also a former capital of Baden, a historic region named after Hohenbaden Castle in the city of Baden-Baden. Located on the right bank of the Rhine near the French border, between the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen conurbation to the north and Strasbourg to the south, Karlsruhe is Germany's legal center, being home to the Federal Constitutional Court, the Federal Court of Justice and the Public Prosecutor General. Read more on Wikipedia