Barbarossa city

Barbarossa City is the nickname of five German cities because of shorter or longer stays of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in or near these cities.

Sinzig

Sinzig is a city in the Middle Rhine in the district of Ahrweiler. In the early history of colonized Celtic and Roman, she found her first mention 762 as Frankish royal court " Sentiacum ". Their heyday was the city in the 12th and 14th centuries as imperial palace, which was often visited by German kings and emperors, four of Barbarossa. Because of this, also called this city " Barbarossa town ".

In recent years, the past is used more than before in Sinzig touristy. Thus, the modern version of the " Barbarossa " head, which adorns brochures and banners created. There is a medieval market Barbarossa on the second weekend in September, and one market Emperor ( Krammarkt ) for Sinziger fair. A " Barbarossamärkchen " enjoys great popularity as a discount brand. Barbarossa chocolates, a " Barbarossaelexier " and a red "Edition Barbarossa " are further examples of marketing.

Kaiserslautern

The settlement history of Kaiserslautern, industry and university town on the northern edge of the Palatinate Forest, begins with the early 5th millennium BC

Around 1100 let Salian rulers built a castle on the site of the present Town Hall. Between 1152 and 1158 can be the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa Hohenstaufen Castle expand it to a later named after him Palatinate " with no little splendor ". For a mill, a protective trench and for the castle pond the volume donated the water. The castle had solid walls and towers of red sandstone, it was fine living spaces with beautiful carpets and paintings, a chapel, many adjoining rooms and a large hall emperor. The Imperial Palace ( popularly known also Barbarossa Castle ) was in the center of Kaiserslautern, just below the spot where now stands the new City Hall. He makes Kaiserslautern to the center of Hohenstaufen power area and it starts the heyday of the settlement. The Imperial Palace is first mentioned in 1172 as " castrum domini imperatoris ".

1176 donates Emperor Barbarossa Hospital; are called to the line Premonstratensian by Kaiserslautern. From then built late Romanesque parish church foundations are still preserved. Construction of the early Gothic choir of the collegiate church of today was to 1260th

"The Emperor Kaiserslautern " now calls itself the nickname of Barbarossa city.

Gelnhausen

The " Barbarossa town " Gelnhausen, a town in the Main -Kinzig-Kreis in the east of Hesse, was founded by Emperor Frederick I in 1170. As a place for this establishment served a conveniently located spot where the Via Regia, the trade route from Frankfurt to Leipzig crossed with some other. Friedrich founded the city, by summarizing three villages at this point to the imperial city of Gelnhausen. Imperial trade privileges, such as exemption from customs duties, quickly led to a settlement of merchants. The awarded in this context Stapelrecht contributed also contributes nicely that trade in Gelnhausen flourished fairly quickly. The Imperial Palace ( also known as " Barbarossa Castle " ), was only 10 years after founding the city scene of a major Reichstag: Henry the Lion was taken in 1180 in the absence of the process and its lands were redistributed. The Imperial Palace in Gelnhausen is the best preserved Palatinate the Staufer period.

Altenburg

Also Altenburg in the east of Thuringia allowed to " Barbarossa town " call. In the year 976 Old castle was first mentioned in a document of Emperor Otto II. In the imperial palace Altenburg ( Castrum Plysn ), which was mentioned for the first time in 1132, Emperor Frederick I held 1165-1188 on several occasions. 1172 is in its presence the Collegiate Church of Our love women have been dedicated to St. Mary on the mountains of the Augustinian Canons - pin, whose twin tower red tips are a landmark Altenburgs today.

Bad Frankenhausen

First settlements of Bad Frankenhausen about 10,000 years ago on the southern edge of the Kyffhäuser were detected by excavations. The place Frankenhausen first mentioned in the 9th century in documents of the monastery in Fulda as a Frankish settlement. Nearby are the Barbarossahöhle with the " throne " and of course the Kyffhaeuser Memorial ( also known as " Barbarossa Monument ") with the larger than life Emperor " Redbeard ", which was built on the ruins of the kingdom Kyffhausen 1890-1896. Therefore, counting the city also to the " Barbarossa cities", even if it is not to prove that Barbarossa Frankenhausen has ever visited.

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