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The
Stiftskirche
Kaiserslautern's 'collegiate church' is
the most significant early Gothic hall-style church in south-west Germany.
The oldest part of the church, the chancel, was completed at the end of the
13th century, following the foundation of a monastery in the 12th century by
monks sent to the area by the Emperor Frederick I,
Barbarossa.
The show side of the church is its north side on Market
Street (Marktstrasse), where the windows are two-storeys high, an unusual
architectural feature.
There is a church with a similar window design in
Oppenheim am Rhein and as both towns belonged to the bishopric of
Worms, people suspect that both churches were built by
the same master builder. |
If you understand
German, more details are available here. |
The Spoliensäule
The
'relics column' is a relatively new landmark in Kaiserslautern. 'Spolien'
(related to the English 'spoils') are relics of old buildings incorporated into
new ones.
Today, very little is left of the former glory of
Kaiserslautern's imperial palace (the Kaiserpfalz) or the Casimir castle
(Casimirschloss). To mark the 700th anniversary of the granting of the
city charter in 1976, it was therefore decided to erect this column to
acknowledge part of the city's important past.
The plinth features ten
reproduced boundary stones, while the city seal appears in the middle, with
symbols denoting the various local guilds on stones around the
top. |
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The Spoliensäule stands
at the top end of Marktstrasse at the opening onto St
Martins Platz. |
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