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in the Light of History By KARL KOLMEL Page #4 - 1700's & 1800's |
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in the Light of History By KARL KOLMEL Page #4 - 1700's & 1800's |
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| Reconstruction started. The baroque town comes into being. |
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- 1703 |
Reconstruction of the University and Town Hall.
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| Foundation of the Jesuit Chirch laid. |
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- 1742 |
Elector Karl Philipp, called the "Hunter of the Palatinate" on account of his fondness for hunting Buildings: Outer Castle Gate and Guardroom Upper Prince's Wall. |
| The Electoral residence transferred from Heidelberg to Mannheim. Building of the Mannheim Castle begun. |
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- 1779 |
Elector Karl Theodor. Type of the art-loving baroque princes. His building activities were chiefly concerned with his Mannheim residence and the Schwetzingen Castle, whose magnificent castle grounds still keep the memory of his name alive. Heidelberg buildings: Renovations Lower Prince's Well |
| Karl Theodor's big vat built by the cooper Engler (approx. 50,000 gallons). |
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| On 24 june a great fire caused by lightening once again destroyed the castle, in the meantime restored to a large extent. |
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- 1781 |
Building of the Karl's Gate |
| Goethe in Heidelberg for the first time (Poetry and Truth). |
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| The Palatine Residence is transfered from Mannheim to Munich. |
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| The old wooden bridge destroyed by drifting ice on the Necar. |
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- 1788 |
Building of arched stone bridge, today known as the Old Bridge. |
- 1802 |
Maximilian Joseph IV, Duke of Zweibruken. |
| Under the influences of Nepoleonic formation of states the Palatinate on the right banks of the Rhine, and thus Heidelberg, Mannheim and Schwetzingen come to Baden. |
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& 1815 |
Goethe's last visits to Heidelberg. (Meeting with the Boisseree brothers and with Marianne Willemer.)
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- 1890 |
Thorough servey and architectural design of the castle by the architects Koch and Seitz.
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| %00th anniversary of Heidelberg University.
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- 1900 |
Restoration of the Friedrich Building by Professor Karl Schafer.
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| Proceed to A tour of the CASTLE. |