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Landstuhl
Also known as Sickingen Town of Landstuhl
Landstuhl (), officially the Sickingen Town of Landstuhl (), is a town in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Municipal Association of Landstuhl. Situated on the north-west edge of the Palatinate Forest, west of the city of Kaiserslautern, the town is located near Ramstein Air Base.
Key facts
- German place.Name
- Landstuhl
- German place.type
- Town
- German place.image_photo
- Burg Nanstein "von oben" - panoramio.jpg
- German place.image_caption
- Ruins of Nanstein Castle
- German place.image_coa
- Landstuhl wappen.jpg
- German place.image_plan
- Landstuhl in KL.svg
- German place.state
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- German place.district
- Kaiserslautern
- German place.Verbandsgemeinde
- Landstuhl
- German place.mayor
- Mattia De Fazio
- German place.leader_term
- 2024–present
- German place.party
- CDU
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Landstuhl (), officially the Sickingen Town of Landstuhl (), is a town in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Municipal Association of Landstuhl. Situated on the north-west edge of the Palatinate Forest, west of the city of Kaiserslautern, the town is located near Ramstein Air Base.
==History== ===Early history=== The earliest traces of human settlement in Landstuhl date from around 500 BC. The "heathen rock" (Heidenfels) from the Celtic period was a holy site until Roman times, and a Roman settlement dates from the 1st century. About 1152, Emperor Frederick I had Nanstein Castle built on the mountain south of town.
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