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Imperial Palace of Kaiserslautern (Barbarossa Castle)

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Imperial Palace of Kaiserslautern (Barbarossa Castle)

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Imperial Palace of Kaiserslautern (Barbarossa Castle)

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Location: Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Sitzende by Lothar Fischer – Brezel Adam Statue loop from Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof

8.26km

02:11

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2. Beilstein Castle Ruins – Totenköpfchen Sandstone Rock loop from Kaiserslautern West

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04:49

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3. Humberg Tower – View of Fritz-Walter-Stadion loop from PRE Wohnpark

12.0km

03:18

190m

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Scout Jens

May 4, 2023

The ruined imperial palace of Kaiserslautern, popularly known as Barbarossaburg or Kaiserslautern Castle, is a military and administrative castle built by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in the 12th century as a royal palace in the western Palatinate city of Kaiserslautern (now Rhineland-Palatinate).

In front of the Casimir Castle (Pfalzgrafensaal) in the southeast of Willy-Brand-Platz you will find an information board about the historical remains that can be seen on the castle hill. Right there you can also see stone sarcophagi from the Carolingian burial ground from the 7th-10th centuries. Century and east of the Count Palatine Hall the moat with cart tracks.

If you are interested in the history of the city, this is the place for you.

Lots of information to read here: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserpfalz_(Kaiserslautern)

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Radsport Volker Maus

November 1, 2020

Time until the Palatinate was established

Excavations on the hill, which took place in 1991/1992, produced a cemetery with ribbon ceramic finds from the 6th millennium BC. BC to the surface. This is the earliest evidence of settlement on the castle grounds.

In the year 830 the place is attested as the Carolingian Villa Luhtra. [2] It is believed, however, that the courtyard was in the same place as early as the 7th century. [2] Originally there was still a necropolis there with 188 proven graves on an area of 1400 m². [3]

The court came to the Salians in 985 and was called curtis (lat. For court) in 1114. [4] A 1.40 m thick defensive wall built in the 10th century, in the late Salian period, along the eastern and southern boundary has been proven. [5] In view of the traditional name Rittersberg, which is still in use today, the castle-like settlement is likely to have been administered by low-nobility ministerials.
12th to 14th centuries

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Imperial Palace of Kaiserslautern (Barbarossa Castle)

1. Sitzende by Lothar Fischer – Brezel Adam Statue loop from Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof

2. Beilstein Castle Ruins – Totenköpfchen Sandstone Rock loop from Kaiserslautern West

3. Humberg Tower – View of Fritz-Walter-Stadion loop from PRE Wohnpark

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