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Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
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Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Carl Benz
Bertha Benz was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor Carl Benz. On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive an internal-combustion-engined automobile over a long distance, field testing the Benz…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mannheim
City in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Mannheim, officially the University City of Mannheim, is the second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the state capital, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a population of over 315,000. It is located at the border with Rhineland-Palatinate. The city is the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pforzheim
City in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Pforzheim is a city of over 125,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
Tourist and theme route in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a German tourist and theme route in Baden-Württemberg and member of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. It opened in 2008 and follows the tracks of the world's first long-distance road trip by a vehicle powered with an internal combustion…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)