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 Forchheim
The "Kaiserpfalz" I |
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Historic downtown Forchheim, marked by edifices with impressive baroque and half-timbered facades, bears testimony to the city's proud past and to the charm of early Franconian city architecture.
Its Franconian history goes back at least 1250 years and Forchheim can at all events be described as old and venerable, although documentary proof of its existence only dates from 805 with the "Diedenhofer Kapitular” (Capitulary of Diedenhofen).
But at that time a Franconian royal court had long been in existence, and it very soon achieved outstanding significance as a royal "Pfalz” at least from 840 to 1077 when Forchheim was a pre-eminent place in the empire. |
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Ludwig der Deutsche (Louis the German), Arnulf von Kärnten (Arnulf of Carinthia) and Otto II held court here on several occasions. (The word "Pfalz” refers to a building used as a royal residence and place of jurisdiction during a royal progress in mediaeval times.)
European history was made at Forchheim when in 900 Ludwig das Kind (Louis the Child) was elected king at the age of seven.  |
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