15 Facts About Bruchsal

Bruchsal is the largest city in the district of Karlsruhe and is known for being Europe's largest asparagus producer and one of the economic centers of the region of Karlsruhe.

The Bruchsal area includes the cities and towns of Bad Schonborn, Forst, Hambrucken, Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Kraichtal, Kronau, Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Ostringen, Philippsburg, Ubstadt-Weiher and Waghausel.

Bruchsal is located at the edge of the Upper Rhine River Plains and the Kraichgau along the Saalbach, which is a small tributary of the Rhine that joins it between Philippsburg and Oberhausen.

City of Bruchsal is made up of Bruchsal proper along with the boroughs of Buchenau, Heidelsheim, Helmsheim, Obergrombach and Untergrombach.

In 1743 Franz Christof von Hutten, Schonborn's successor, completed the extensive construction of the baroque city of Bruchsal, by adding Damian's Gate, the military barracks and the Water Chateau .

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Bruchsal's had 8 children of whom 6 were daughters, and she was known as Europe's mother-in-law.

In 1939 the District Bruchsal became the district of Bruchsal, which included 38 towns and cities, until it was merged into Karlsruhe during the district reform of 1970.

Between 1971 and 1974 the local government reform incorporated 5 neighbouring communities into the city of Bruchsal, including the cities of Heidelsheim and Obergrombach.

The Coat of Arms symbolized the Cross of Speyer, referring to the fact that Bruchsal was the official residence of the Bishop until 1803, and has been in use for many centuries.

Chateau of Bruchsal was built in the baroque style of the mid 18th century, starting around 1720, and served as the official residence of the bishops of Speyer.

Bruchsal station, designed and built by Berthold Schweikert, is located at the intersection of the Karlsruhe–Heidelberg line, the line to Muhlacker and the line to Germersheim.

Stadtinfoplattform Bruchsal-XL offers facts, reports and up-to-date information on events in the city and region.

Bruchsal was the home of the International University in Germany, one of the first private colleges in Germany.

Bruchsal offers a wide variety of liberal arts schools, among them the Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium, the Schonborn-Gymnasium, the St Paulusheim gymnasium, a private college-track high school that started out as a boys-only boarding school, and the Albert-Schweitzer-Realschule, a non-college track public high school .

Abendrealschule Bruchsal allows students with middle school diplomas to achieve the first in a series of steps to gain college entrance prerequisites on a part-time basis after work.