Carl Benz Monument

Right at the beginning of the Augustaanlage, not far from the Mannheim Water Tower, stands the Carl Benz monument from 1933. It commemorates the invention of the automobile by the ingenious inventor Carl Benz, who lived in Mannheim in T6, 11 (today T 6, 33 ) had his workshop and spent busy times there. His greatest technical invention was the three-wheeled "horse-free car", for which he received the patent on January 29, 1886 under the number 37435 from the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin.

"Carl Benz founded a workshop in Mannheim in 1871 in the square T 6. In 1886 he received the German Reich Patent No. 37435 for the patent motor car ("three wheeler"). In 1904 he left his now very large Mannheim company in a dispute in order to open his own plant in Ladenburg.
The monument is one of the first ever erected for a technician rather than a ruler or artist. On the back it bears the names and emblems of the donors: RDA (Reichsverband der Automobil-Industrie), AvD (Automobilclub von Deutschland), ASC (Allgemeiner Schnauferl-Club) and the ADAC as well as the relief of a modern racing car from the 1930s.
In front of the monument in the direction of the water tower, a bronze replica of the first roadworthy Benz automobile has been on display for a number of years. On the site of the workshop in T 6, 33 (the address used to be T 6, 11) there is now a faceless new building. The entrance gate is adorned with a metal silhouette of the car invented by Benz."
Source: rhein-neckar-industriekultur.de/objects/benz-denkmal-in-mannheim

Memorial in honor of the famous inventor who developed the first automobile in Mannheim.