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21 unusual facts about Kaiserslautern


527th Space Aggressor Squadron

The squadron relocated to a new base, located west of the Rhine River near Kaiserslautern, West Germany in 1952.

566th Intelligence Squadron

SC relocated to Shaw AFB, SC: 01 Jan–25 June 1953; Sembach AB, West Germany on 7 July 1953 and moved to Kaiserslautern, West Germany on 13 August 1953 till the unit was Inactivated on 8 February 1958.

Datsakorn Thonglao

Datsakorn made his debut in Thailand national team in 2001 while he was spending his loan spell at Kaiserslautern.

On 2002, May 2 Kaiserslautern expressed their interest in permanently signing Datsakorn, which also was the skipper of Thailand U-20 at the moment.

Erni Maissen

After 29 caps his last game for Switzerland was in a 1-0 defeat to West Germany in Kaiserslautern on the 27 April 1988.

German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

DFKI was founded in 1988, and has facilities in the German cities of Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin.

Interregio-Express

In the meantime IRE trains with former IR coaches ran on the SaarbrückenKaiserslauternLudwigshafenMannheim route for a year, a route now worked by the more usual Regional-Express services.

Johan Adam Pollich

Johan Adam Pollich or Johann (1 January 1741, Kaiserslautern - 24 February 1780) was a German doctor, botanist and entomologist.

John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In Heidelberg on 21 February 1595 John George married for a second time to Dorothea (b. Kaiserslautern, 6 January 1581 – d. Sandersleben, 18 September 1631), the only surviving child of John Casimir of Simmern, third son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine.

Karl Mildenberger

Karl Mildenberger (born 23 November 1937, in Kaiserslautern) is a retired German heavyweight boxer.

Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern

After his father's death in 1610, Louis Philip inherited his territories around Simmern, Kaiserslautern and Sponheim.

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems is co-located, and works closely with, the MPI for Informatics (MPII), the computer science departments at the University of Kaiserslautern and the Saarland University, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institutes for Experimental Software Engineering and for Industrial Mathematics and other computing research centers within the Kaiserslautern-Saarbrücken computer science cluster.

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) is a computer science research institute co-located in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern, Germany.

OCRopus

OCRopus is currently developed under the lead of Thomas Breuel from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern, Germany and is sponsored by Google.

Otterbach

Otterbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Otto I, Duke of Carinthia

He could at least retain the ducal title as "Duke of Worms", received the Kaiserpfalz of Lautern and seized large estates of Wissembourg (Weißenburg) Abbey in compensation.

Roller Girls of the Apocalypse

The Roller Girls of the Apocalypse (RGA) is a roller derby league based in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Royce Herron

-- as of when?--> she worked for several organizations including the Army Music and Theater Program in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and the State Arts Council of Oklahoma.

Seventeenth Air Force

It was announced on 12 September 2008 that Seventeenth Air Force would be reactivated, to be headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, located west of Kaiserslautern in the German federal state of Rheinland-Palatinate.

Terenure College A.F.C.

Subsequent to their Leinster Schools Cup Glory, the School team of '69 were invited to participate in the European Schools Championships the following year, hosted in Kaiserslautern in (then) West Germany.

Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch

Koch studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Marburg, and afterwards was a Stadtphysicus (state physician) in Trarbach and Kaiserslautern (1798).


1. FCK

1. FC Kaiserslautern, a German association football club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate

Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

The Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern (German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern) is a German orchestra which was created September 2007 as a merger of the orchestras of two broadcasters, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken of the Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) and the Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern of the Südwestrundfunk.

DODDS European Championships

Typically, they meet at a main base in Germany such as: Ramstein, Wiesbaden, Baumholder, or Kaiserslautern.

Emil Krieger

His most notable works are the group of four mourners at Langemark German war cemetery, the fountains at the Innenministerium in Munich, the Memorial in Treuchtlingen, the busts of Richard Wagner and of Karl von Fischer in the Bayerisches Nationaltheater, and two large reliefs for the Gedächtniskirche in Kaiserslautern.

Enkenbach-Alsenborn

Neighbouring municipalities are - in a clockwise direction - Neuhemsbach, Sippersfeld, Kerzenheim, Ramsen (Pfalz), Wattenheim, Fischbach (Kaiserslautern district), Kaiserslautern and Mehlingen.

Erdesbach

Today, the village is almost purely a residential community for those who commute to jobs in Kusel, Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Baumholder and even as far away as Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.

FCK

1. FC Kaiserslautern, a German football club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate

Franziskus von Bettinger

Bettinger held a number of pastoral posts in the diocese of Speyer: chaplain in Zweibrücken, 1873-1877; chaplain in Kaiserslautern, 1877-1878; cooperator in Reichenbach, 1878-1879; administrator, and later pastor and school inspector in Lambaheim, 1879-1888; pastor in Roxheim, 1888-1895.

Fritz Walter

20 km east of Kaiserslautern (first exit from Kaiserslautern on Bundesautobahn 6 direction Mannheim).

Fritz-Walter-Stadion

It is named after Fritz Walter, who played for the Kaiserslautern club throughout his career and was captain of the Germany national football team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup in the "Miracle of Bern".

Glan Cattle

The first breed associations were founded in 1880 in Meisenheim and Quirnbach, later followed in 1898 by the Glan-Donnersberg Breeding Association based in Kaiserslautern and in 1912 the revived Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeding Cooperatives (later Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeders).

Gustave J. Stoeckel

Born in Maikammer, Bavarian Palatinate, Stoeckel graduated from the seminary in Kaiserslautern in 1838, and then pursued a post-graduate course in musical composition under Joseph Krebs.

Jimmy Gilligan

Returning to Watford, he began making intermittent appearances for the first team, the undoubted highlight being scoring Watford's first goal in Europe in their very first game against Kaiserslautern in the 1983–1984 UEFA Cup; he would later score in the quarter final defeat to Sparta Prague.

JTD engine

Their CDTI engine, manufactured in Pratola Serra, Italy and Kaiserslautern, Germany, is the product of the half-decade joint venture between GM and Fiat.

Klaus Knopper

He received his degree in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag in 1996 (a major European Linux expo) and has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998.

Kullman Building Corporation

A franchise in Germany affiliated with Kullman was established in 1997, and since has opened a number of restaurants in a number of cities such as Berlin, Kaiserslautern, Ludwigsburg and Regensburg.

Luis Robles

Robles missed much of the summer training with Kaiserslautern – which had recently hired a new manager, Marco Kurz – because of his inclusion in the United States squad at the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Max Ackermann

To mark his 80th birthday in 1967, one-man shows were held at the Mittelrhein Museum in Koblenz and other galleries in Kaiserslautern, Friedrichshafen and Lake Constance.

National Alliance for Youth Sports

2011 – MCCS Cherry Point Youth Sports, Village of Evendale Recreation, Kaiserslautern Military Community Youth Sports and Fitness Program, Town of Westport Parks and Recreation, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Youth Sports Program

Neckar Valley Railway

In a few years, the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn network is expected to be reorganised so that S-Bahn services on the Neckar Valley Railway no longer run on the Palatine Ludwig Railway to Kaiserslautern; instead they will run from Schifferstadt via Speyer to Germersheim and later to Bruchsal.

Oskar von Redwitz

In 1852, however, he gave up this post and retired to his estate of Schellenberg, near Kaiserslautern.

Palatine Forest Mountain Bike Park

The park's administration headquarters are at the Verbandsgemeinde Kaiserslautern-Süd.

Perry Hicks

At Buena Perry also played with current Kaiserslautern goalkeeper Luis Robles and Portland Timbers midfielder Miguel Guante.

Rosanne Bailey

She was Commander, 435th Air Base Wing, Ramstein Air Base, and Commander, Kaiserslautern Military Community, Germany, and Commander, Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo., where she was responsible for executing the North American Aerospace Defense Command's integrated tactical warning and attack assessment mission, the U.S. Northern Command's homeland defense mission, and U.S. Strategic Command's space and missile warning support.

Strategic Army Corps

Alerted for movement on 10 October, although scattered at different training sites along the Eastern Seaboard, the Regiment arrived at its new duty stations of Baumholder and Kaiserslautern exactly thirty days later.

Taylor Barracks

An Autobahn bridge near Kaiserslautern destroyed by German engineers near the war’s end made long stretches of the autobahn useless.