Barbarossa city

Celtic in its early history and settled by the Romans, the city was first mentioned in 762 as a Franconian king's court, sentiacum.

The settlement history of Kaiserslautern, an industrial city and university seat at the northern edge of the Palatinate forest, begins in the 5th millennium BC.

[citation needed] He designated Lautern the center of his Staufen empire, which marked the beginning of a boom for the community.

It was founded in 1170 by Barbarossa in this convenient location because the merchant highway Via Regia from Frankfurt to Leipzig intersected here with several other roads.

Only ten years after it was born the city hosted an important Reichstag where Henry the Lion was tried in absentia and all his lands were redistributed.