Devices in Karlsruhe (historical)

Ebertstrasse 17 (lost in 2023)

Hotel Greif December 2018 Above the entrance door on Ebertstrasse is a lettering made of white glowing tubes. June 2023Read More →

Kaiserallee 113 (lost in 2023)

Pharmacy Herder-Apotheke February 2018 Above the entrance of the pharmacy at the corner of Kaiserallee / Herderstrasse is a deviceRead More →

Adlerstrasse 9 (lost in 2023)

Bar December 2022 On the right above the entrance door is a double-sided boom with the red lettering “BAR”. TheRead More →

Am Entenfang 2 (lost in 2023)

Hoepfner February 2018 On the roof of the residential and commercial building is this device, consisting of single letters attachedRead More →

Elisabeth-Grosswendt-Strasse 12 (lost in 2023)

AWO childcare center “Aufwind” February 2018 On the facade of the building of the day care center is this moreRead More →

Ottostrasse 21 (lost in 2023)

Office for waste management of the City of Karlsruhe February 2018 At the gable end of the municipal office forRead More →

Kriegsstrasse 49 (lost in 2023)

Pharmacy May 2021 All that remains of the former pharmacy in the building is the signet. This glowed in classicRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 201 (lost in 2023)

Pharmacy Hof-Apotheke This device is mounted above the entrance, which is located at the corner of Kaiserstrasse and Waldstrasse. TheRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 141 (lost in 2023)

Böckeler Confiserie- und Kaffeehausbetriebe GmbH February 2018 This is a corner building, on the facade of which the yellow fluorescentRead More →

Karlstrasse 77 (lost in 2022)

Haarhaus Karlsruhe February 2018 In pink glowing tubes above the shop windows of the first floor is this lettering. ItRead More →

Suedliche Uferstrasse 7 (lost in 2022)

Schuster Schaltanlagen April 2019 On the building of the former company headquarters there is an installation consisting of two letteringRead More →

Am Entenfang 2 (lost in 2022)

City Play February 2018 Above the entrance area, there is an illuminated advertising sign on the canopy, to which additionalRead More →

Rheinstrasse 77 (lost in 2022)

Music Club 77 February 2018 The name of this club is displayed with red and blue tubes in a windowRead More →

Adlerstrasse 18 (lost in 2022)

City Play Spielcenter February 2018 On this building, the light tubes are used for three different purposes at once. First,Read More →

Kaiserstrasse 133 (lost in 2021)

Eiscafé Pierod December 2019 In the building entrance, through which the café is reached, there is a lettering of lightRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 223 (historical)

Sparkasse Karlsruhe In December 1962, neon signs referred to the then names of today’s Sparkasse Karlsruhe. There were also neonRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 74 (historical)

Volksbank Building In a photo from December 1962, many neon signs can be seen on and around the “Volksbank Building”.Read More →

Kaiserstrasse 52-56 (historical)

Clothing house C&A Brenninkmeyer The facade and arcade roof of the fashion house, which opened in 1956, were once adornedRead More →

Neon advertising on the Kaiserstrasse in Karlsruhe in 1962

In a Karlsruhe Facebook group, some photos recently appeared that interested me very much. They were digitized color slides that,Read More →

Kaiserstrasse 9 (lost in 2021)

Coffeein May 2018 In the window of the coffee bar, which opened in 2018, there is a vertical lettering madeRead More →

Kaiserstraße 209 (historical)

MUSIC POOL The record store in the Waldhof (passage between Kaiserstrasse and Erbprinzenstrasse) no longer exists. The photo is fromRead More →

Ettlinger Strasse 33 (historical)

Café am Zoo Even before the Second World War, there was the “Café am Zoo” at the location; even then,Read More →

Historical neon signs in Karlsruhe

In the last days there were some new additions to the historical devices in Karlsruhe. I received them from GeorgRead More →

Erbprinzenstrasse 34 (historical)

Amenta Cosmetic The signet of the cosmetic studio shone in neon in the early 2000s. Once in the shop windowRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 147-159 (historical)

Karstadt In one of the sales departments in the store Karstadt there was this neon lettering in the 1990s.Read More →

Herrenstrasse 17 (historical)

Paul Schulz GmbH home textiles This is probably one of the most beautiful former illuminated advertisements in Karlsruhe – neonRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 231-233 (lost in 2001)

Gundlach KG, Kinderwagen The store closed in the autumn of 2001 and the devices were removed.Read More →

Ottostrasse (historical)

Used cars There is no verified information about this device. The photo is from the 90s.Read More →

Karlsruhe neon signs at the end of the 1960s

A net find shows the variety of neon signs that existed in Karlsruhe in the 1960s. Almost all of theseRead More →

Kriegsstrasse 140 (lost in 2020)

Hoepfner February 2018 In green glowing tubes typical of the brewery, this large device is located on the roof ofRead More →

Amalienstrasse 8 (lost in 2020)

Hairdresser Mungenast February 2018 Above the shop window, on the simple advertising sign in the left area, there is aRead More →

Hirschstrasse 18 (lost in 2020)

Monk Bar May 2018 On the roof above the entrance area is the name of the bar made of whiteRead More →

Pfinztalstrasse 65 (lost in 2019)

Stadtwerke Karlsruhe – Customer Center Durlach February 2018 On the facade was an illuminated advertising sign with clock as aRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 182 (lost in 2019)

Stadtwerke Karlsruhe – Customer Center Kaiserstraße February 2018 An interesting device was located on the facade of the Stadtwerke customerRead More →

Amalienstrasse 3 (lost in 2019)

Hotel Betzler On the facade there are two devices with blue luminous tubes. The tubes are mounted on stainless steelRead More →

Reinhold-Frank-Strasse 46a (lost in 2019)

Hotel Handelshof February 2018 On the canopy above the entrance on the left and right side were single letters madeRead More →

Pfinztalstrasse 34 (lost in 2019)

Restaurant zum Adler February 2018 On this corner building, on the facade facing Ochsentorstrasse, at the level of the secondRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 36a (lost 2019)

Cherie-Bar February 2018 Above the entrance and window area of the first floor was a lettering made of red luminousRead More →

Lammstrasse 1-5 (lost in 2019)

Badische Neueste Nachrichten (BNN) The device at the corner of Lammstrasse and Zirkel consisted of blue luminous tubes mounted onRead More →

Ottostrasse 24 (historical)

Deutsche Homöopathie-Union (DHU) On the roof of the building were single-letter tubes, which probably glowed red. It is not knownRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 76 (historical)

Hotel and commercial building Illuminated tubes on the facade and on the roof of the house and arcade – that’sRead More →

Rheinstrasse 53 (lost 2019)

Uhren Weisser On the facade there were two quite artful devices with white and blue tubes. For their protection theyRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 174

City Play January 2018 On the canopy of the building there is an illuminated advertising sign with red and blueRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 215 (historical)

Hieke House On the facade of this store building, which was built in 1954, there were a lot of neonRead More →

Ettlinger Strasse 4a (lost in 2008)

Tullabad The Tullabad (indoor swimming pool) existed from 1955 to 2008. On the roof above the entrance area there wasRead More →

Kaiserstrasse 144 (historical)

Zum Moninger The building was constructed in 1901 by the architectural firm of Hermann Walder & Rauschenberg in the ArtRead More →

Hauptbahnstrasse 1 (lost in 2014)

Station Durlach From 1963 to 1992, there was the Karlsruhe loading station for “DB Auto im Reisezug” at the stationRead More →

Rheinstrasse 4-6 (lost 2017)

Radio Freytag The building, which housed a store of “Radio Freytag”, had a large illuminated advertisement of the Saba companyRead More →