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Carlsruhe VIC General Information
Carlsruhe is the name of several locations: *Karlsruhe, a city in Germany (Karlsruhe was formerly ''Carlsruhe'') *Carlsruhe, South Australia, a locality in South Australia, Australia *Carlsruhe, Victoria Carlsruhe () is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges between Woodend and Kyneton, alongside the old Calder Highway, although now bypassed by the Calder Freeway. It is approximately 50 minutes from both Melbourne and Bendigo. At the , Carlsruhe ..., a town in Victoria, Australia *Carlsruhe O/S and Bad Carlsruhe, German names of the village Pokój in Poland {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of 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 (''Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof''). Karlsruhe was the capital of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach (Durlach: 1565–1718; Karlsruhe: 1718–1771), the Margraviate of Baden (1771–1803), the Electorate of Baden (1803–1806), th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo, South Australia
Waterloo is a settlement in South Australia, located just off the Barrier Highway between Manoora and Black Springs, approximately north-east of the state capital of Adelaide. History The township of Waterloo was surveyed and established in 1865 in the Hundred of Waterloo, County of Light. It derives its name from the famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars. Waterloo is situated in a valley on the head of the Light River. Located about midway between Kapunda and Burra, it is not to be confused with Waterloo Corner on the Adelaide Plains. In 1866 a petition was signed by 233 of the inhabitants and settlers for the establishment of a police station and courthouse. The government rejected this, as the township then comprised not more than six houses, a flourmill, and a hotel. The locality is the birthplace of Tom Kruse, the Australian outback mailman who worked on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Queensland. Land Use Although the tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlsruhe, Victoria
Carlsruhe () is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges between Woodend and Kyneton, alongside the old Calder Highway, although now bypassed by the Calder Freeway. It is approximately 50 minutes from both Melbourne and Bendigo. At the , Carlsruhe and the surrounding area had a population of 456. History Carlsruhe was settled for European use on 26 May 1837 by Charles Ebden. Carlsruhe was the second inland settlement in the Port Phillip District, Ebden having set up the first inland settlement on about 14 March 1837 at Sugarloaf Creek, Victoria.Williams, Martin, Charles Bonney and the fertile Kilmore Plains, Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 90, No. 1, June 2019, p. 107 It was named after Karlsruhe, Germany, where Ebden received part of his education. Although Carlsruhe is named after the German city, the German pronunciation of the name is very different from the Australian town which is pronounced using English spelling conventions. This is because in German the final "e" is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
