Karlsruhe, Germany/karlsruhe201

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This is the original University of Karlsruhe, the Polytechnische Schule founded in 1825, on the north side of present Kaiserstrasse, about 600 meters east of the Pyramid. The first Technical School (Technische Hochschule) in Germany, it was patterned after the École Polytechnique in Paris. This print is of the building in 1836. The view is northwest.