Düsseldorf-Carlstadt
Elegant chessboard-grid quarter of cobbled lanes, classical townhouses, museums and a daily market.
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This guide to Carlstadt in Düsseldorf is about the ground beneath the quarter's cobbles and gas lanterns, and what stood there before the townhouses. It follows Elector Carl Theodor, a city squeezed by its own walls and bastions in the late eighteenth century, and the year his name went onto a new district. Along the way you'll hear how builders were coaxed onto empty plots around Carlsplatz. Best heard on the cobbles near the market square, then carried south to the water of the Spee'scher Graben.
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