bicycle, as well as Carl Benz, the inventor of the car were born in Karlsruhe and that Benz also studied at the city�s university; and that Benz�s wife Bertha took the world's first long distance-drive with a car from Mannheim to Karlsruhe-Gr�tzingen and Pforzheim (see Bertha Benz Memorial Route). Their professional lives led both men to the neighboring city of Mannheim, where they first applied their most famous inventions
