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Undated historical photo of Bertha Benz, the world’s first dominated woman driver and driver of a long-distance road trip. Courtesy Bertha Benz Memorial Route. One of ten certified hand-made replicas of the original Dr. Carl Benz “Patent-Motorwagon” produced by Mercedes-Benz to commemorate the company’s recent 100th anniversary, on display at the Midwest Dream Car Collection in Salina, Kansas. This is the model Bertha Benz drove on her history-making road trip between Mannheim and Pforzheim, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. Photo courtesy of the museum. The Bertha Benz Historical Road Trip in Germany Story and Photos by Evelyn Kanter Today, she would be a successful blogger, influencer and videographer. Then, she was just a housewife hoping her husband’s new business would succeed. She was Bertha Benz, wife of the mechanical engineer who had invented and patented the world’s first “vehicle with gas engine” in 1886. Dr. Carl Benz was building them, but they weren’t selling. One day, she piled two of their children into one of his contraptions and set off on a 130-mile round-trip journey from home in Mannheim to Pforzheim, where her mother lived. It doesn’t matter if she just wanted to get out of the house or if she knew instinctively that her escapade would kick-start sales, but it made her a pioneer and an inventor, like her husband. 44 It was the first documented drive by a woman and the first road trip by anybody. She was followed by cheering crowds attracted by minute-to-minute updates telegraphed by newspapers. She made history, and Carl later said she popularized the automobile, even though they scared horses and pedestrians. Within a decade, business was booming, and so was our non-stop worldwide love affair with cars. Engineer Carl incorporated Bertha’s road trip discoveries into his vehicles, making them safer and more efficient. She recognized that brakes would need a liner to prevent overheating, and suggested he add gears for climbing up and down hills. That’s in her 1890 version of a blog, known as a diary. Germany has honored her original drive as The Bertha Benz Memorial Route, with historical markers and designated stops. It took her one full day each way to negotiate the rutted roads carved by horse-drawn carriages, but it took me longer, even on fully paved roads, since there’s so much to see and do in a combination of sleepy small towns and bustling cities. Plaque on Town Pharmacy in Wiesloch, Germany, acknowledging its history as the world’s first refueling stop. Placed there in 1990, the 100th anniversary of the headline-making 130-mile round trip by Bertha Benz and two of her children, between Manheim and Pforzheim.
Dr. Carl Benz, seated on one of his original vehicles. Photo courtesy Mercedes- Benz Museum The 1886 original vehicle that Bertha Benz made famous, which scared horses and pedestrians.Photo courtesy Mercedes- Benz Museum Original 1886 German patent for “vehicle with gas engine” by Dr. Carl Benz, two years before Gottlieb Daimler patented a similar invention, setting off a fierce competition that lasted until just after WWI, when the two companies merged to form Mercedes-Benz. Photo courtesy Mercedes-Benz Museum PHOTOS FROM MERCEDES BENZ MUSEUM MANNHEIM Its location on the Rhine and Neckar rivers has made it a wealthy center of commerce and culture since the 1500s. The impressive baroque palace is one of the largest in Europe and dates from the 1600s. Arrive hungry when you visit the Fressgasse, loosely translated as “street of food”, a pedestrian zone of grocery and gourmet shops and restaurants. https://www.germany.travel/en/citiesculture/mannheim.html LADENBURG The family moved here in 1906, when the newly named Benz and Sons needed a larger manufacturing facility. There’s a small museum in the old factory, and the simple graves of Carl and Bertha are a few blocks away. HEIDELBERG Now one of the most popular tourist spots in all of Germany for its romantic vistas, including its stone bridge and the monumental Schloss Heidelberg hilltop castle, which includes the world’s largest wine cask, big enough to walk into. Save your energy and take the funicular to the top. My favorite restaurant is the 175-year-old Zum Roten Oschen (The Red Ox), downtown, where photos of famous patrons including Mark Twain and Marilyn Monroe decorate the walls. https://www.heidelberg.de/english/ Home/Visit.html Panoramic view of Heidelberg, with its famous hilltop castle dominating the skyline, along the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. Photo courtesy Heidelberg Marketing. Graves of Dr. Carl Benz and wife Bertha Benz in Ladenberg, Germany, where he founded Benz and Sons in 1906 45
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