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The 33rd bronze plaque on the Mile of Innovation in front of Mannheim Palace is dedicated to Otto Feick and the rhönrad he invented in Ludwigshafen in 1921. Fritz-Jochen Weber, Chairman of the "Kurpfälzer Meile der Innovationen", also welcomed guests from Reichenbach-Steegen, Otto Feick's…

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The bronze plate dedicated to the important naturalist Karl Friedrich Schimper was inaugurated on September 30, 2021 as the highlight of the Schimper Day of the Reiß- Engelhorn Museums in the presence of Prof. Dr. Wilfried Rosendahl, General Director of the Reiß- Engelhorn Museums. Prorector Prof…

We were able to welcome many guests to the handover of the plaque dedicated to Johann Jakob Hemmer. Among them Patrick Schäfer as representative of the sponsor, Academia Domitor as well as First Mayor Christian Specht, City Councilor Alexander Fleck, Prof. Dr. Wilfried Rosendahl (REM), Anita Schäfer…

The bronze plaque donated by Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH was presented to the public on July 19, 2021 in the presence of its three managing directors Johann Masse, Uwe Sternstein and Peter Körner as well as the L'Orange family. First Mayor Christian Specht conveyed the greetings of the City of…

At a small internal celebration on July 15, 2021, the members of the Kurpfälzer Meile der Innovationen were pleased to add two new plaques to the Innovation Mile after a long Corona-related break. They honor the physician Prof. Dr. Adolf Kußmaul and the inventor of the rocket plane Julius Hatry.

In the presence of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Harald zur Hausen and his wife Prof. Dr. Ethel-Michele de Villiers, the plaque donated by Jörg Oswald was inaugurated on December 3, 2019. Mayor Dr. Peter Kurz personally conveyed the city's greetings.

August 20, 2019 marked the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of court astronomer Christian Mayer. For this special birthday celebration, the Kurpfälzer Meile der Innovationen association invited guests to the Alte Sternwarte to honor the jubilarian at his former place of work.

On July 25, 2019, the innovative Weinheim-based company Freudenberg was honored with a plaque. Dr. Tilmann Krauch, represented the Freudenberg SE company.

The Bornzetafel, donated by BASF, was presented to the public on June 25, 2019, the 150th anniversary of the granting of the patent for the first chemical dye, Alizarin.

Since June 3, 2019, a bronze plaque on the Mile of Innovation commemorates the physician Albert Fraenkel, the founder of the life-saving strophanthin therapy. The sponsor is the company Roche Diagnostics.

Mayor Michael Grötsch is delighted that the Mile of Innovation now commemorates the "Mannheim Gene", which was decoded under the direction of Prof. Dr. Fokko van der Woude. At the ceremony on October 18, 2018 to inaugurate the plaque sponsored by Bouwfonds, we were able to welcome not only its…

Big celebration for the laying of the bronze plate for Carl Benz on August 4, 2017.

Mayor Dr. Peter Kurz and Thomas Seiler unveil the bronze plaque for the first electric elevator.

On 03.07.2017 the 2nd bronze plate for Friedrich Schiller was laid.

We are very pleased to invite you to the laying of the 3rd bronze plaque to the right of the entrance to Mannheim Castle (Ehrenhof) on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 5:00 pm.

It is dedicated to the world's first electric elevator, which Werner von Siemens presented to the astonished public in 1880 at…

On 29.05.2017 the first bronze plate for Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Drais was laid.

On Epiphany Day 2017, the city of Mannheim invited to the New Year's reception in the Rosengarten. Our association, the Kurpfälzer Meile der Innovationen e.V., was represented with a booth on site and presented the project and the laying of the first bronze plate for Karl Drais, fitting to the topic…

Inspection of the construction site: Now all 42 foundations are sunk.

Inspection of the construction site: 20 foundations are now embedded on the east side.

Inspection of the construction site: the foundations are being sunk into the sidewalk.

On-site appointment with Sax+Klee to determine the exact installation locations.

The fence of the cour d'honneur is approx. 36m long on the left and right. If the panels are evenly distributed, this results in a calculated distance of approx. 1.75m from panel to panel. Depending on where exactly…