Kaiserslautern – DEB32

EU regions: Germany > Rhineland-Palatinate > Rheinhessen-Pfalz > Kaiserslautern

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Demographics

From Wikipedia: Kaiserslautern (German pronunciation: [ˌkaɪzɐsˈlaʊtɐn] (listen)) is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland (State) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) at the edge of the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzerwald). The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is 459 kilometres (285 miles) from Paris, 117 km (73 miles) from Frankfurt am Main, and 159 km (99 miles) from Luxembourg.

Kaiserslautern is home to about 100,000 people. Additionally, approximately 45,000 NATO military personnel inhabit the city and its surrounding district (Landkreis Kaiserslautern), and contribute approximately US$1 billion annually to the local economy. The city is also home to football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern that has won the German championship four times.

History

Prehistoric settlement in the area of what is now Kaiserslautern has been traced to at least 800 BC. Some 2,500-year-old Celtic tombs were uncovered at Miesau, a town about 29 kilometres (18 miles) west of Kaiserslautern. The recovered relics are now in the Museum for Palatinate History at Speyer.

Medieval period

Kaiserslautern received its name from the favorite hunting retreat of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa who ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1155 until 1190.

Other: Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Alzey-Worms, Kaiserslautern, Ludwigshafen, Pirmasens, Bad Dürkheim (district), Donnersbergkreis, Germersheim, Rhein-Pfalz, Mainz-Bingen, Südwestpfalz, Kaiserslautern, Mainz, Kusel, Südliche Weinstraße, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Speyer, Worms, Landau in der Pfalz, Zweibrücken, Frankenthal

Neighbours: Kaiserslautern

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Kaiserslautern – DEB32, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PDEB32, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164