Karl Freiherr von Drais was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. He was born and died in Karlsruhe. He is seen as "the father of the bicycle".
Karl Drais, c. 1820, then still a baron
Karl von Drais on his original Laufmaschine, the earliest two-wheeler, or hobbyhorse in 1819
A Draisine from around 1820, built with cherry wood and softwood. Displayed at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, Germany.
Tomb of Karl von Drais, Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital 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 to the south, Karlsruhe is Germany's legal center, being home to the Federal Constitutional Court, the Federal Court of Justice and the Public Prosecutor General.
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Image: Schloss Karlsruhe und Fächerstadt 2
Image: Karlsruhe, Schloßplatz panoramio
Image: Konzerthaus Karlsruhe bei Nacht
