I went to a German city near France!

your shaky camera gives me "motion sikness", but nevertheless a really great, funny and entertaining video! Thumbs up!

I live in Baden-Württemberg now for 36 years, but I think you know more about our cities than me.. this makes me think 😅👍good work

If you are looking for the Altstadt you have to visit Durlach nearby. It's the "mother" of Karlsruhe, and much older. And Schloss Favorite (small palace) in Rastatt is an old enchanted fairytale place.
Nice to have you here, Conner . Welcome. 🤗

Once a beautiful city in the heart of Baden. Now a shithole full of thieves beggars and junkies going to ruins.

Moin aus Niedersachsen! Richtig interessantes Video. Ich war selber noch nie in Kalsruhe, deshalb bin ich dankbar für deine Einblicke. Ich bekomme immer ein Lächeln im Gesicht, wenn ich sehe, dass du unsere Kultur und unser Land so wertschätzt. Man lernt die Republik nochmal von einer neuen Seite kennen, durch deine Perspektive!
Also: Wirklich vielen Dank für deine ganzen bodenständigen, ehrlichen Videos 🙂

Come to Schwetzingen!

Good that you are fully back making videos❤

Visite Bremen
Rathaus snoor Viertel river Weser statium can do all by feed😅

Hello Conner, the special thing about Karlsruhe is that it was planned precisely, the streets and paths are arranged symmetrically (fan-shaped). And this has been the case since the year of its foundation in 1715. This is best seen from a bird's eye view. It is therefore similar to Washington DC ;-)), although Karlsruhe is a little older, but very young by German and European standards ;-))

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I love your energy and enthusiam.

I lived in Karlsruhe for about 10 years and it's wonderful city to live in – except during hot days in summer. It gets incredibly hot with high humidity usually. But during all other seasons it's really beautiful.
The main railway station is remarkable because it is one of the first ones with a concrete roof in the shape of half of a barrel. Originally the main railway station was closer to the palace – almost halfway between the current one and the palace, so near the crossroads near Media-Markt and the mall where you've been filming.
The zoo is much smaller than the one in Stuttgart but it's a really nice park right in the middle of the city.
Karlsruhe has a number of museums of art, history and natural history. Apart from the technical university KIT, a polytechnical academy and an academy for teachers there's an academy of music and an academy of art and media. The latter one has an interesting exhibition area and is located in a former industrial building a bit outside of the central city area.
Karlsruhe is famous for it's public transport system, particularly the tramway system which is partly underground. During the last 4 decades it has grown to connect Karlsruhe with many neighbouring towns like Rastatt, Baden-Baden, Graben-Neudorf (halfway to Mannheim), Pforzheim (halfway to Stuttgart), Bretten, Heilbronn, Ettlingen and Bad Herrenalb deep in the Black Forrest. You can even go to Hagenau and Wissembourg in Alsace/France, to Wörth and Bad Bergzabern in Palatinate (the Bundesland west of Baden-Württemberg). Durlach – the original residence of the dukes and grand-dukes of Baden – is part of Karlsruhe now. However it's significantly older than Karlsruhe. It's located at the foot of the Turmberg mountain.
There's another park located a bit outside of the central city along the river Alb: die Günter-Klotz-Anlage. It's the location of a very nice music festival in early summer. Its specialty: there's a little mountain. Between that mountain and the river Alb there's a meadow large enough to provide space for a stage and dancing area. Sitting on that mountain looking at the stage you're looking to the west. I've had some of the most fascinating concert moments watching some gigs in the evening during sunset – some in violent rain and thunderstorms freaking out right above me but a clear sky near the horizon – that experience is almost impossible to describe. It must suffice to say that nobody left the scene and the bands often continued to play watching people continuing to dance in ponds of water and mud right in front of the stage.
I don't know if those things are still existing but Jazz Club Karlsruhe, Kulturverein Tollhaus, youth club Jubez and a few others were organizing many interesting events and concerts during my time in Karlsruhe. I really hope that they're there still – they made Karlsruhe often a great place to be.
North and south of Karlsruhe there are beautiful landscapes along the river Rhine – marvellous for hiking and cycling. However, there a bit of a problem with stinging beasts like gnats and gadflies.
Karlsruhe was a wonderful place for shopping. However it was there that I could experience what an economic recession can do to businesses and a city. Meanwhile a few more crises have hit and I know that a lot has changed there. Several of my favourite shops have disappeared, particularly book shops. In that regard Karlsruhe is certainly facing the same challenges of many other cities. However it seems to have many shops still. And nice cafes and restaurants too.

If you like the Laugenstange, try to eat it the way I use to eat it (and I LOVE Laugenstange!): Cut it in half, put butter on one half and thin slices of Salami on top, put the halves together – and you have the perfect breakfast sandwich 😊

Karlsruhe is a baroque planned city and actually a young town for german conditions because it was built in 1715 and this is why you wont find any medival buildings there. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson visited Karlsruhe and used the city as architectural model for Washingtons DC.?
If you would like to come back to Karlsruhe, I could show you some nice places as I'm living there.😊

The woman saying the pyramid is a pyramid hahah 😀

Karlsruhe doesn't really have a well preserved old town center due to destruction during WWII, however, there's a district in Karlsruhe called Durlach which is actually older than Karlsruhe itself and has a very beautiful and well preserved old town style center. There's also a viewpoint in Durlach called Turmberg with gorgeous views (especially at sunset in late summer ;)). You can either hike up there using the stairs (including nice views of vineyards) or take the Turmbergbahn. Some other cool/pretty spots in Karlsruhe are City Park, Südstadt, Südweststadt (around ZKM), Oststadt, Rheinhafen and Günther-Klotz-Anlage. There's also a pretty botanical garden close to where you were in the park behind the castle. And additionally to that, I'd say the Schlossgartenbahn you can see at minute 34:00 is also totally worth checking out 😉

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Hi Connor, great video! It's nice to see someone discover ones hometown on the fly, with a set of completely fresh eyes! Should you come back for a second video I would recommend going to "Durlach"(the original residence of Karl and now one part of Karlsruhe that is older than the town center). You might also be interested in the former army base in the "Nordstadt" where American streets and names like "Marylandschule" remain. Other points of interest could be the Turmberg (in Durlach), for the best view of the entire city, Schloss Gottesaue (would be on the way between town center and Durlach). The university campus is right to the east of the Schloss, not really spectacular, but it's there. Then there's the Wildparkstadion (wouldn't have been far from the schloss, about 10min walk). If you'd like to see even more parks there's also the "Günther-Klotz Anlage" and a few nice stretches along the Alb. Hoepfner has a castle like brewery building (every bit as fake as anything in Vegas but still looks nice ;)). "Mühlburg" (another part older than the actual city) was the birthplace of Karl-Benz. If your next visit is very soon I'd also recommend taking the "Turmbergbahn" up the Turmberg because it will probably be replaced or shut down soon. If it is very soon, check out "Schlosslichtspiele" in the evening, basically a arty projection on the Schloss building itself that has become pretty popular. Anyways, thanks for your video and hope you have a nice time should you come back (or go other places 😉 ).