Rüppurr

The district borders on the neighboring town of Ettlingen and is considered to be one of the more affluent residential areas in Karlsruhe.

[5] Knight Herrmann von Spiegelberg left the monastery he founded as well as his fields in, among others, Rüppurr and Knielingen (Knodilingen) to the diocese of Speyer.

A linear settlement was built between the moated castle (stonemason's mark on the Rotes Haus (Meierhof)) and a village center further south.

From 1931, the Protestant Diakonissenanstalt established the Diakonissenkrankenhaus Rüppurr, today a central care hospital with 464 beds, 60 places for geriatric rehabilitation and 1350 employees.

The main street is Herrenalber Straße, running in north-south direction, which separates the town into the older western and newer eastern parts and connects the Karlsruhe city center with Ettlingen.

At its northern end, Herrenalber Strasse connects to the southern bypass, which is Karlsruhe's main traffic artery in an east-west direction represents.

Rüppurr begins on the left at the high-rise buildings, behind it the garden city ; the old town center is to the right of the main road
S1 at the tram stop Rüppurr Battstrasse