Oststadt (, ) is the eastern district of

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( ; ; ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart a ...

. It is located east of the Durlacher Tor, which borders the city center, and borders the

Durlach Durlach is a district in Karlsruhe, Germany, with a population of roughly 30,000. The district is further divided into ''Alt-Durlach'', ''Dornwald-Untermühl'', ''Hanggebiet'', ''Bergwald'', ''Aue'', ''Lohn-Lissen'' and ''Killisfeld''. Histor ...

district to the east.

History

At the end of the 19th century, the city of Karlsruhe opened up parts of today's Oststadt as a building area. To this day, the district is characterized by its coexistence of trade, crafts and living. The area south of

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, the Gottesaue, has a much older history. The Benedictine monastery Gottesaue was founded here in 1094. After its

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during the Reformation in the 16th century, the Gottesaue Palace was built in its place, which was rebuilt between 1982 and 1989 and now serves as the home of the State University of Music.

Tourist attractions

Sights in the eastern part of Karlsruhe include the Gottesaue Palace which is a music academy now, the old cemetery on Kapellenstrasse, the Hauptfriedhof as the oldest German

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, several

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streets, the botanical garden of the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...

KIT, the Franz Lust Children's Clinic (formerly Victoria Pensionat and Girls' School; no longer a children's clinic since July 2003, since 2006 the headquarters of the academic international office of the University of Karlsruhe), the old Jewish cemetery on Kriegsstraße, the Alter Schlachthof and the Hoepfner castle. There are also some notable church buildings, including the neo-Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Bernhard, the Art Nouveau-style Evangelical Luther church, the chapel at the old cemetery, which is considered the smallest Evangelical Lutheran church in Germany, and the mausoleum of the grand ducal burial chapel Großherzogliche Grabkapelle in the Fasanengarten.

References

External links

Citizens' association of the Oststadt
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