The Old Bridge, Heidelberg, Germany
Statue of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. River god from the pedestal and arms of the Elector
Inscription:
| palatinorum patri, CAROLO THEODORO; hoc pietatis monumentum posuit senatus populusque heidelbergensis ao mdcclxxxviii. |
For the father of the Palatinate, Karl Theodor this pious monument was placed by the senate and the people of Heidelberg in the year 1788 |
Charles Theodore (German: Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) was a German nobleman of the Sulzbach branch of the House of Wittelsbach. He became Count Palatine of Sulzbach from his father Johann Christian in 1733, at the age of six. With the death of his cousin, Charles III Philip, he became Prince-elector and Count Palatine of the Rhine in 1742, being eighteen. In his fifties, he became Prince-Elector of Bavaria at the death of another cousin, Maximilian III Joseph, in 1777.
