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Places of Interest
In Kaiserslautern, soccer is written with capital letters. Five players of its team, the FC Kaiserslautern, known as "The Red Devil" after the color of their jersey, were part of the German team that won the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. One of them, Fritz Walter, was the captain and one of the few honorary ones in Germany. The stadium named after him is one of the best of the country. In the city, however, located in the Pfälzerwald natural park, its museums and gardens are worth visiting.
The then Royal Court of Lutra was first mentioned in a document dating back from 830. The market rights conferred by Emperor Otto III in 985 and the construction in 1152 of an imperial palace by Emperor Frederick I, known as Barbarrossa, definitely spurred the development of the village of Lutra.
Emperor Frederick I used to live in the palace; that is why the city was then named City of Barbarossa. With the count of Palatinate, Johann Casimir, known as the Kurpfalz Hunter, Kaiserslautern lived its last period of prosperity. During the War of the Thirty Years, the city was occupied by Spanish, French, and Sweden troops, who destroyed the medieval city almost completely. |
