or my good ole buddy Karl used to say -- Charles-Rest -- definitely lives up to its promises. Its a 270.000 inhabitant town, full of buerocrats and technical male students. Some people like it's low profile enchanting atmosphere. The city is maintaining a high tech image and tries to attract small high tech companies especially in computer science. Given the small size of the city the cultural offerings are reasonable, yet their quality ranges from village theater to world class multimedia art. If you spent 2 weeks in Germany, don't visit it. Below you see the Schloss, left to the Schloss would be the German Constitutional Court, to the right of it is the university.
Below that is the symbol of the university, Fridericiana, right behind the classical entry to the 170 year young engineering school. Karlsruhe is one of the top schools in the country in computer science, chemical and process engineering, chemistry, industrial administration, mechanical and electrical engineering. Associated with the school and especially with the school of computer science are several campus near research institutes, in part operated, in part only financed by corporations and governmental institutions. The whole school is roughly 23.000 students enrolled in the combined bachelors and masters programs, the school of computer science alone is roughly 2.000 students. The school is public and (for the most part) free, however there is a high rate of people failing.
Yup, and Karlsruhe is close to the river Rhine, which I like to bike along for long miles.
