Karlsburg Castle

Karlsburg Castle in the Durlach region of Karlsruhe portrays the historical backdrop of the Baden since 1563. Just the Prinzessinnenbau of the chronicled constructing still stands. Pforzheim was the living arrangement of Margrave Charles II, until the point when he chose in 1563 to move to Durlach. The natives of Durlach offered him amid the arrangements is obscure. Charles chose to extende the medieval Karlsburg Castle into a royal residence and make it his home.

His successors additionally broadened the manor, until the point that the city was possessed by French troops in 1689. The French torched the city and the manor. In 1698, Margrave Frederick Magnus came back from oust in Basel and began reconstructing the palace. Frederick had self important plans, yet no cash and the margraviate had been crushed by the war. A debate emitted with the natives of Durlach, who declined to help the remaking exertion.

By 1703 two wings had been finished and the margrave had moved in, when the undertaking was suspended inconclusively. The Karlsburg was later utilized as a managerial office and even as a military enclosure. The Pfinzgau Museum has been housed in the stronghold since 1924. In 1964, a wing was wrecked to prepare for the Castle School at Durlach. The mansion was broadly redesigned from 1973 to 1988.