Bertha Benz Memorial Route
The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a German tourist and holiday street with cultural and historical background. Today it allows anyone nachzufahren the track itself, the Bertha Benz in 1888 voted for the first automobile voyage in history.
History
Invented in 1886, born in Karlsruhe Carl Benz in Mannheim, the automobile ( Imperial Patent 37435 of 29 January 1886), which initially was not a commercial success.
Beginning of August 1888 proved his wife Bertha Benz, accompanied by their 15 and 13 year old sons Eugen and Richard with a secret drive with the Benz patent motor car number 3 from Mannheim to her native city of Pforzheim and back in the daily use of the horseless carriage, which the automobile for breakthrough helped.
In the city pharmacy in Wiesloch had to be bought as a few liters of fuel ligroin, which served as a cleaning agent at the time. So this pharmacy was the first gas station in the world. A plaque mounted there as well as a monument to remember.
During the trip several repairs had to be carried out, of which Bertha Benz two self could do on the open road: " The one time was the fuel line clogged - my hairpin helped. The other time the ignition was broken. I have repaired my garter. "
Sponsorship
The private non-profit initiative for the establishment of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route 2007 founded two clubs, the Bertha Benz Memorial Route eV and the Bertha Benz Memorial Club eV The latter is recognized in the fields of education, monument care and home care than non-profit and wants to make known the historical performance of the Bertha Benz.
On 25 February 2008, the authorities in Karlsruhe officially licensed the Bertha Benz Memorial Route as a tourist or holiday route, a 194 km long dynamic monument Baden and therefore also German industrial history. The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a member of ERIH ( European Route of Industrial Heritage ).
Course
One Way
The outward journey leads in a southerly direction for about 104 km from Mannheim to Pforzheim:
Mannheim, Feudenheim, Ilves Home, Ladenburg, Schriesheim, Dossenheim, Heidelberg, Rohrbach (Heidelberg ), glues, Nussloch, Wiesloch, Mingolsheim, long bridges, Stettfeld, Ubstadt, Bruchsal, Untergrombach, Weingarten, Grötzingen, Bergshausen, Söllingen, Kleinsteinbach, Wilferdingen, King Bach stone Eisingen, Pforzheim.
The above mentioned and also signposted route corresponds as far as possible the original route traveled by Bertha Benz. The only exception: From Wilferdingen they drove along today's federal highway 10 to Pforzheim. The section between Wilferdingen and Pforzheim, which corresponds to the historically traveled by Bertha Benz route is, since November 2012 awarded signs " Bertha Benz Memorial Route ( hist ) ".
Return journey
The return trip takes you on an alternative route in a northerly direction over 90 kilometers from Pforzheim back to Mannheim:
Pforzheim, Bauschlott, Bretten, gondola Home, Helmsheim, Heidelsheim, Bruchsal, forestry, Hambrücken, meadow valley, Kirrlach, Reilingen, Hockenheim, Talhaus, Ketch, Schwetzingen, Friedrich field Seckenheim, Mannheim.
Landscapes
The authentic route of Bertha Benz not only links almost forgotten original sites of their journey, but also runs through the wine region of Baden.
This route of industrial culture follows in the Upper Rhine Plain several Roman roads, including the mountain road that leads to the Odenwald and Kraichgau along in order to turn shortly before Karlsruhe Pforzheim in the northern Black Forest.
On the way back she then performs the Kraichgau, again through the Upper Rhine Valley, this time following the floodplains towards the starting point and destination Mannheim.
Attractions
- Mannheim: Electoral Palace Mannheim, Luis Park, Mannheim Water Tower
- Ladenburg: Auto Museum Dr. Carl Benz, Home of the Benz family, Old Town
- Heidelberg: Heidelberg Castle, Heidelberg old town, old bridge
- Wiesloch: City Pharmacy ( first filling station in the world)
- Bruchsal Bruchsal Palace
- Pforzheim Jewellery Museum Pforzheim, Pforzheim industry with Schmuckwelten
- Bretten: Melanchthon's house on the market square, near is the monastery Maulbronn (World Heritage Site ). Students of the monastery Maulbronn were like Johannes Kepler, Friedrich Hölderlin and Hermann Hesse
- Hockenheim: Motorsport Museum Hockenheim Hockenheimring
- Schwetzingen Schwetzingen Castle
Auto Museum Dr. Carl Benz in Ladenburg
Heidelberg Castle with Old Bridge
First gas station in the world in Wiesloch
Schloss Bruchsal
The Gold City Pforzheim
Melanchthon's house in Bretten
Hockenheimring
Red Mosque of Schwetzingen Castle
Bertha Benz Challenge
The Bertha Benz Memorial Route was opened in late 2008, the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry suggested, however, to organize the official inauguration trip as part of the Automobile Summer 2011, the official event commemorating the invention of the automobile by Carl Benz 125 years ago.
The German wave reported on 25 January 2011 in a worldwide TV preliminary report in several languages on the Bertha Benz Challenge. As part of the program " Made in Germany" not only the invention of the automobile was illuminated, but also its future.
Then the first Bertha Benz Challenge took place on 10 and 11 September 2011, open only to future-proof vehicles: All vehicles with alternative drive systems - electric and hybrid drive, hydrogen power and fuel cells - but also extremely fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly vehicles. For Bertha Benz drove 1888 no old-timers, but the most innovative car of its time. And at the official opening drive should therefore establish the most innovative cars of our time to participate.
Winfried Kretschmann Prime Minister took over the patronage, State Minister Silke cancer and Science Minister Theresia Bauer went personally to document the commitment of the State of Baden- Württemberg for forward-thinking mobility. With 43 registered alternatively powered vehicles, the first Bertha Benz Challenge was already one of the biggest e - mobility events.
The motto was: "Sustainable mobility on the oldest automobile road in the world! "
Also present was the replica of the flakes electric car in 1888, proving that electric mobility in Germany already has a long tradition.
The second Bertha Benz Challenge took place from 14 to 16 September 2012, but started in the framework of Automechanika from Frankfurt Fair, and made two rounds one on the motodrome the Hockenheimring, which so visibly opened the electric mobility.
The third Bertha Benz Challenge was held from September 13 to 15, 2013, and started for the first time by the International Motor Show ( IAA) in Frankfurt. Patrons were Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier, Prime Minister Volker Bouffier, and Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.