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In Karlsruhe, civic urban development had to accommodate itself to the existent Baroque town plan focused axially on the Schloss. Between 1806 and 1826, Weinbrenner created a civic centre for the Baroque town by means of a circus and a market place flanked by the town hall and Protestant church and marked in the middle by the pyramidal tomb of Margrave William. All the buildings are constructed in an international Neoclassical style, which Weinbrenner defended against the stylistic and nationalistic ambitions of the Gothic and Renaissance Revivals on the grounds that Europe was developing into a bourgeois, democratic society.
The photo shows the market place with the town hall, Protestant church and pyramidal tomb of Margrave William, ruler of Baden in Baroque times.
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