Our catchment area – Karlsruhe Südstadt
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Südstadt emerged as a workers' residential area and as the first urban expansion south of the first train station on Kriegsstrasse. The population rose to 15,000 within 20 years after the building ban was lifted in 1847. In 1900, as today, Werderplatz offered a center with shops. An above-average number of railway and postal employees [...]