Karlsruhe (deu)

Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe ranks 180th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sapporo, Salvador, Bahia, and Long Beach, California. Memorable people born in Karlsruhe include Hans Frank, Friedrich Ratzel, and Karl Drais. 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 politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and painters. Karlsruhe is located in Germany.

Karlsruhe is the third-largest city of the German state (Land) 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/Kehl to the south, Karlsruhe is Germany's legal center, being home to the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) and the Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice. Read more on Wikipedia