Our beautiful city Kaiserslautern is located in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is located right on the edge of the green paradise of the Palatinate Forest. Together with the northern part of the adjacent Vosges Mountains in France it forms the UNESCO-designated Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve.
Kaiserslautern is home to about 100,000 people plus approximately 45,000 NATO military personnel that are based within the city and its surrounding district.
Prehistoric settlement in the area of what is Kaiserslautern now has been traced back to at least 800 B.C. The historical center of the city as is today dates back to the 9th century. Kaiserslautern received its name from the favourite hunting retreat of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa who ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1155 until 1190. Ruins of Frederick’s original castle, built 1152–1160, can still be visited in front of the city hall. The small river Lauter made the old section of Kaiserslautern an island in medieval times.
Today, Kaiserslautern has become a modern city with lot’s of attractive possibilities for leisure, sports, shopping, and more. The city not only attracts wanderers and soccer fans, but also offers many excursion destinations, museums, pubs and a beautiful, lively inner city. Visit our tourism pages serving all information available to our guests about arrival, accommodations from the vacation home up to the suite, sight-seeing tours, or the regional weather report.