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Landstuhl
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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
German place.elevation
248
German place.area
15.34
German place.postal_code
66849
German place.area_code
06371
German place.licence
KL
German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
07 3 35 022

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
town
Official name
Landstuhl
Country
Germany
Population
8305
Area
15.34
Elevation
248
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Official website
www.landstuhl.de
Image
Burg Nanstein "von oben" - panoramio.jpg
Dialing code
06371
Licence plate code
KL
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inception
1326-00-00
Commons category
Landstuhl
twinned administrative body
Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
topic's main category
Category:Landstuhl
postal code
66849
category of associated people
Category:People from Landstuhl
native label
Landstuhl
category for people born here
Category:Births in Landstuhl
hashtag
Landstuhl
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • History
  • Early history
  • Politics
  • Economy and infrastructure
  • Notable people
  • International relations
  • References
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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Landstuhl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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