Kirche St. Hedwig

The latitude of Karlsruhe is 49.1.0 N and the longitude is 8.24.0 E. It is located in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Wurttemberg, located near the French-German border. The city's altitude is between 100 m (on the western shore of the river Rhine) and 322 m (near to the TV Tower). The city was planned with the tower of the palace (Schloss) at the center and 32 streets radiating out from it like spokes on a wheel, or ribs on a folding fan, so that a nickname for Karlsruhe in German is the "fan city" (Fächerstadt). Almost all of these streets survive today.