What’s on Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Landstuhl
Stum-Czubatinski;Stum Kaiserslautern invites you to the Maikerwe from 23 May to 2 June
From 23 May to 2 June 2025, the city of Kaiserslautern invites you to the traditional Maikerwe on the Messeplatz. During this period, visitors can once again expect a mixture of thrills, family fun, culinary delights and a leisurely stroll.
The festival opens on Friday 23 May at 5 pm. From 6.30 pm, the Werkvolkfanfarenzug parades across the square in a festive procession and puts guests in the right musical mood for the colourful hustle and bustle. The official start of the May market in the Lössel tent follows at 7 pm with the traditional tapping of the keg beer.
To kick things off and as a special thank you at the end on Monday 2 June, a colourful firework display will light up the sky above the Kerwe at around 10 pm and provide unforgettable moments.
A special highlight is the Family Day on Wednesday, 28 May. On this day, half-price rides and admission prices apply throughout the entire fairground. In addition, a balloon artist and face painting directly in front of the Ferris wheel will make children’s eyes light up and put young visitors in a good mood.
A diverse selection of rides and rides awaits guests on the grounds – for adrenaline junkies as well as families and young children:
- The ‘Avenger Royal’ thrills with a spectacular 360° overhead swing ride, where passengers experience centrifugal forces of up to 5 g with their feet hanging freely – thrills at the highest level.
- With the ‘Ghost Rider’, visitors can expect an innovative, technically sophisticated ride experience with impressive light, sound and special effects.
- The ‘Grand Soleil’ Ferris wheel offers the best views over the entire fairground – ideal for those who like things a little quieter but still don’t want to miss out on height.
- For horror fans, the ‘Walk of Dead’ horror house is a must: the boundaries between life and death are blurred here – not for the faint-hearted!
- Classics such as ‘Breakdance’ and ‘Musikexpress’ promise fast rhythms, rapid spins and a nostalgic Kerwe feeling.
- At ‘Pirates Adventure’, guests can immerse themselves in the mysterious world of pirates in five different themed areas – including a sinking ship and treasure hunt.
- The large swing ‘Chaos’ with its 22 metre high, rotating gondola is a real adrenaline rush – the name says it all.
- Rio’ is an elaborately designed obstacle course on five accessible levels – including a Sky Walk at a height of nine metres with a transparent floor.
- The ‘Crazy Construction Site’ is a themed family roller coaster that brings the romance of a construction site to the track at high speed.
- There are romantic moments in the ‘Wellenflieger’, the classic chain carousel with a nostalgic flair.
- And of course there is also a bumper car, a favourite meeting place for many young people. Numerous children’s rides and a pony ride are available for the youngest Kerwe fans.
- The offer is complemented by the popular Shopping-Gässje, which invites visitors to stroll and browse with small market stalls. Visitors can look forward to hearty culinary specialities such as knuckle of pork and chicken, sweet delicacies such as roasted almonds and a wide range of drinks. Numerous cosy beer gardens, musical entertainment and a friendly fairground atmosphere round off the experience.
Maikerwe 2025 once again promises varied days for the whole family – with plenty of fun, adventure, enjoyment and socialising in the heart of the Palatinate.
Open Sunday Shopping May 25
Experience shopping fun in Kaiserslautern
© Stadt Kaiserslautern - Jens Vollmer On Sunday, May 25, 2025, Kaiserslautern once again invites you to enjoy a relaxed shopping spree. On the occasion of Lautrer Maikerwe, numerous stores in the city center and in the commercial areas will open their doors to visitors from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – and offer a special kind of shopping experience.
As usual, all public parking spaces in Kaiserslautern can be used free of charge on Sunday. In addition, the parking lots at Rathaus West (former Maxschule), in Meuthstraße and the schoolyard of Burggymnasium are available free of charge.
For further information on how to get there and parking options visit the website:
Sightseeing tours
So, who was Barbarossa? – certainly not a baker (who has cashed in on this illustrious name), but a powerful emperor of the Middle Ages.
Discover more interesting aspects of Kaiserslautern: a guided tour of the Count Palatinate Hall (with the subterranean passages) and/or walk through the downtown highlights major personages, buildings and events in Kaiserslautern’s multifaceted history.
Hohenecken Castle
From its construction in the 12th century to its destruction in 1688, Hohenecken Castle experienced an eventful history. The legends, such as the story of the buried treasure or the tragic love story of Hildegard von Hoheneck, bear witness to this. The meeting point is directly at the castle.
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 5 p.m.
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced.
Lauter(er) Kleinode – Die unbekannte Denkmalzone
Villas, town houses and a trade museum, all built in the second half of the 19th century, form a monument zone in the north of the city that is unparalleled in Kaiserslautern. Prominent people from Kaiserslautern lived here, so that the history of the city, family history and industrial history flow into one another during the tour. Participants will get to know the magnificent, the pompous, the respectable and the hidden on their two-hour walk.
Date: Friday, May 23, 4 p.m.
10.00 EUR per person / 9.00 EUR reduced.
Hidden traces of Kaiserslautern’s brewery history
Here you can learn and experience all kinds of stories about Kaiserslautern’s breweries. A tasting is included. Sturdy shoes and a good flashlight are required. The tours are at your own risk. Participants release the City of Kaiserslautern and the tour guides and cooperation partners commissioned by it from any liability.
Dates: Friday, May 23, 5 p.m. (in English).
18.00 EUR per person
Palatine Hall & underground corridors
The tour begins in the Palatine Hall of the former Renaissance palace, the city’s representative rooms. The tour then moves on to the approximately 70-metre-long underground corridors, which allow visitors to experience the history of Kaiserslautern in a lively way.
Dates: Saturday, May 24, 10:30 a.m.
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced.
Cemetery tour – Old Cemetery (NEW)
The tour of the old part of the main cemetery and the Old Jewish Cemetery provides an insight into Kaiserslautern’s cemetery culture. It leads to magnificent gravestones and important personalities from the city’s history. Men please remember to bring a head covering. The meeting point is at the funeral parlor in Donnersbergstraße.
Date: Sunday, May 25, 11 a.m.
7.00 per person / 6.00 EUR reduced.
Fountain tour through the city center
From drawing fountain to ornamental fountain. Kaiserslautern and water are inextricably linked. The tour tells stories about the fountains in the city center.
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 3 p.m.
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced.
City tour
A stroll through the more than 750-year-old Barbarossa city. Kaiserslautern is a wonderful place to discover on foot, as most of the sights are close together.
Dates: Friday, May 30, 3 p.m.
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced.
KL intensive
The tour begins with a guided tour in the Palatine Hall of the former Renaissance palace and a visit to the underground corridors. The tour continues on foot with a short walk through the city center.
Date: Saturday, May 31, 10.30 am.
10.00 EUR per person / 9.00 EUR reduced.
The historic center – a discovery tour around the collegiate church
The old center of the city can be experienced in a new way on this guided tour. Around the former monastery complex there are historic buildings and facilities of importance, some of which are hidden: the Adlerapotheke pharmacy, the Manufakturhaus, the so-called beautiful fountain and the former Jewish quarter including the mikvah. After a short tour, we will of course also take a look inside the collegiate church.
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2 pm.
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced.
Unless otherwise stated, the meeting point is always in front of the Tourist Information.
Discounts are available for schoolchildren, students, trainees up to the age of 25 and severely disabled people with a disability of 70 percent or more.The Tourist Information Office (telephone 0631 3654019) requests advance booking for all guided tours.
JUNE TOURS
Palatine Hall & corridors
The tour begins in the Palatine Hall of the former Renaissance palace, the city’s representative rooms. The tour then moves on to the approx. 70 metre long underground corridors, which allow visitors to experience the history of Kaiserslautern in a lively way.
Dates: Wednesday, 04 June, 3.00 p.m.
Saturday, 14 June, 11.15 a.m. (in English)
7 EUR per person / 6 EUR reduced
Hidden traces of Lautr’s brewery history
Here you can learn and experience all kinds of stories about the breweries of Kaiserslautern. A tasting is included. Sturdy shoes and a good torch are required. The tour is at your own risk. Participants release the City of Kaiserslautern and its authorised tour guides and cooperation partners from any liability.
Date: Thursday, 05 June, 5.00 pm
18.00 EUR per person
Stolpersteine – (Un)forgotten life stories
The Stolpersteine are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig that has been in existence since 1992. Small memorial plaques laid in the ground, the so-called Stolpersteine, are intended to commemorate the fate of people who were persecuted, deported, murdered or driven to suicide during the National Socialist era. The walk through the town leads to individual stumbling blocks and other memorials and tells the life stories of former Lautr citizens.
Date: Friday, 06 June, 3.00 pm
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced
City tour
A stroll through the more than 750-year-old Barbarossa city. Kaiserslautern is a wonderful place to discover on foot, as most of the sights are close together.
Dates: Saturday, 07 June, 10.30 a.m.
Saturday, 21 June, 10.30 a.m.
7 EUR per person / 6 EUR reduced
500 metres of city history
From the Kaiserbrunnen to the pedestrian zone – in the footsteps of emperors, kings and noblemen. Of course, citizens, peasants and beggars are not forgotten.
The meeting point is at the Kaiserbrunnen.
Date: Wednesday, 11 June, 3.00 p.m.
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced
The emperor’s footsteps
From the exciting construction of the imperial palace, its heyday, the expansion and construction of Casimir Castle to the destruction and decline of both buildings: the guided tour over the castle hill and through the underground passage shows the exciting traces of the eventful history up to the present day.
Date: Saturday, 14 June, 10.30 a.m.
7 EUR per person / 6 EUR reduced
On the historical traces of the military in Kaiserslautern – NEW –
Kaiserslautern is known worldwide as ‘K-Town’. More than almost any other city in Germany, it was changed by the military after the Second World War. The US armed forces in particular still characterise the municipality and its surrounding area today. But the French occupation is also still visible today.
Michael Geib, the former director of the Ramstein Docu Centre, invites you to an entertaining and informative two-hour walk through the centre of Kaiserslautern. Historical photos and memories of contemporary witnesses bring the past to life.
Date: Friday, 20 June, 3.00 pm, duration approx. 2 hours
10.00 EUR per person / 9.00 EUR reduced
City tour in a vintage bus – NEW –
As part of KL Classics, there is an entertaining and informative city tour in a nostalgic vintage bus. Participants learn interesting facts and curiosities about the Barbarossa city and can enjoy the view from the panoramic bus in a special atmosphere.
Dates: Saturday, 21 June, 10.00 a.m.
11.30 a.m. (in English)
13.00 hrs
10.00 EUR per person / 9.00 EUR reduced
Fritz Walter Tour – NEW –
125 years of 1. FC Kaiserslautern – to mark the occasion, participants will be taken on a tour in the footsteps of the club’s greatest legend – Fritz Walter. In the first half of the tour, you will learn everything you need to know about the 1954 World Cup winner on a bus ride through the city centre, from his birthplace to his grave in the main cemetery. His greatest monument, the Fritz Walter Stadium, is the destination of the second half. The unique history of 1. FC Kaiserslautern is documented and brought to life in the FCK Museum.
The stadium is only visited from the outside, admission to the FCK Museum is included.
Date: Sunday, 22 June, 2.00 pm
19.00 EUR per person / 17.00 EUR reduced
Kaiserslautern ‘uff Pälzisch’ – dialect tour
De Kaiserbrunne, e Sticksche Stadt unn Lautrer Originale – the tour leads ‘uff Pälzisch’ from the Kaiserbrunnen through Steinstraße to Brezel Adam.
The meeting point is at the Kaiserbrunnen.
Date: Tuesday, 24 June, 5.00 pm
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced
Culinary tour of Kaiserslautern
In the Palatinate there is not only ‘Worscht, Weck unn Woi’. The diversity of the cuisine is also characterised by the French, Americans and Bavarians, especially in the Western Palatinate.
During a culinary tour, participants will have the opportunity to taste ‘Lautr’ history, peppered with a few details about eating habits from the Middle Ages to the present day. We don’t stop for a bite to eat, but follow the history behind us. Small appetisers await at various locations.
Date: Friday, 27 June, 4.30 pm, duration approx. 2 hours
18.00 EUR per person
KL intensive
The tour begins with a guided tour of the Palatine Hall of the former Renaissance palace and a visit to the underground corridors. The tour continues on foot with a short walk through the city centre.
Date: Saturday, 28 June, 10.30 a.m.
10.00 EUR per person / 9.00 EUR reduced
Legend walk
Starting at the Imperial Palace, the tour leads through Lautern’s former upper town. The protagonist is a high-medieval frouwe from nearby Sterrenberg Castle, whose legendary story invites you on an excursion into the past. Suspense is included!
Date: Saturday, 28 June, 2.00 pm
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced
Guided tour of the cemetery – Waldfriedhof
The tour leads through one of the oldest and most beautiful forest cemeteries in Germany, a very special part of the main cemetery.
Date: Sunday, 29 June, 2.00 pm
7.00 EUR per person / 6.00 EUR reduced
Automotive gems wanted
– Register now for the Kaiserslautern Classics 2025
Experience the fascination of past automotive history: This is what the “Kaiserslautern Classics” stands for in Kaiserslautern – a highlight for all classic car enthusiasts. This year’s event takes place on June 21 and presents an impressive selection of classic and vintage cars that bring the history of the automobile to life. Visitors can look forward to lovingly restored vehicles that inspire with their timeless design and technical sophistication. In addition to the vehicles, there will be a varied supporting program with great music and a nostalgic atmosphere that celebrates the passion for cars and the good old days.
Anyone who owns a suitable vehicle and would like to present it in the city center of Lautr at the “Kaiserslautern Classics” can contact Silke Walter from the city’s city management at any time. The presentation is not limited to cars; commercial vehicles or two-wheelers can also be registered.
Please send inquiries by e-mail to silke.walter@kaiserslautern.de or call 0631 365 3423.
Registrations can also be made directly via the following link:
https://www.kaiserslautern.de/tourismus_freizeit_kultur/kultur/veranstaltungen/klclassics/index.html.de
The organizers are looking forward to numerous registrations!
Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern
Tickets for concerts at the Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern are available from:
Tickets – 19.00 euros (reduced 13.00 euros) for all seats are only available in advance at the Tourist Information Office, Fruchthallstraße 14, Tel. (0631) 365-2316 or at the box office. The ticket entitles the holder to a return journey on the day of the event until 3:00 a.m. the following day on all public transport (with DB: RE, RB and S-Bahn, in the Rhine-Neckar transport network (VRN), 2nd class).
Wochenmarkt Kaiserslautern
Welcome to the Kaiserslautern weekly market – Every Tuesday and Saturday on Stiftsplatz and on Thursdays in the Königstraße
From 07:00 to 13:30 you will find everything your heart desires. Fresh food from fruit, cheese, vegetables and sausages to fish and baked goods as well as flowers and plants. Or simply have a nice chat about the weather, world events and the football.
Garbage Guide for the City of Kaiserslautern 2025
Ernst Gabriel Once again in 2025, Stadtbildpflege Kaiserslautern (City Image Maintenance) has published a waste management booklet for English-speaking citizens who live in the Kaiserslautern city area. The 32 page Garbage Guide offers information on proper disposal, reuse, and avoidance of waste.
The A5 booklet provides addresses and opening hours of the municipal recycling centers, guidance on waste disposal dates published in the Stadtbildpflege app and website, as well as locations and dates for hazardous waste disposal. The booklet also gives an illustrated overview of correct waste separation.
The 2025 Garbage Guide for the City of Kaiserslautern is available for you to take away from the municipal recycling centers, the Rathaus city hall and the Stadtwerke Kaiserslautern (municipal utilities). An online version can be downloaded from the Stadtbildpflege website at www.stadtbildpflege-kl.de.
Wadgasserhof
Biergarten Wadgasserhof (c)Stadt KL Inviting Beer Garden at the Wadgasserhof
In the summer months the inner courtyard of the Wadgasserhof with its beer garden invites visitors to linger in its historical ambience.
Sitting under the old chestnut tree, enjoy drinks and food from the neighboring Vietnamese restaurant Pho Viet. Opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Monday is a day off.
The exhibitions in the Wadgasserhof and the Theodor Zink Museum can be visited during the opening hours of the City Museum. These are Wednesday to Friday from 10:00 to 17:00 and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00. Admission to special exhibitions is 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros, the visit to the permanent exhibition is free.
Wadgasserhof, Steinstrasse 55, 67653 Kaiserslautern
Tel: 0631 365-2326
Pfalzgalerie
Photo: © Stadt Kaiserslautern Pfalzgalerie, Museumsplatz 1, 67657 Kaiserslautern
Tel.: 0631 3647201
Tuesday: 11:00 – 20:00, Wednesday – Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00, Closed Mondays
The Museum Palatine Gallery in Kaiserslautern was founded in 1874 as a museum of Trades and Crafts. The museum building was constructed from 1875 to 1880. Today, its main focus is on painting and sculpture from the 19th to 21st centuries.
The permanent collection includes: our friends. Abstract American Art from a Private French Collection
Theodor Zink Museum
Photo: © Stadt Kaiserslautern Theodor Zink Museum, Steinstr. 48, 67657 Kaiserslautern
Tel. 0631 365-2327
www.theodor-zink-museum.de
Tuesday to Friday: 9 am to 5 pm;
Saturday and Sunday: 10 am to 6 pm;
Closed Monday
Guided tours by telephone arrangement
Permanent Exhibition: Kaiserslautern – Time Pictures from Ten Millennia
Times of Opening: Wednesday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 6pm, Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Documentation – Stations of a Municipal Museum
From the History of the Theodor Zink MuseuEmmerich Smola School of Music and Music Academy
Kaiserslautern Zoo
The Kaiserslautern Zoo is a popular destination located in Siegelbach in the northwestern outskirts of the city’s suburbs: an oasis of tranquility where you discover nature, and learn interesting details about the kingdom of animals.
KAMMGARN Kaiserslautern
The Kammgarn is one of the top venues in Germany and for years has been an internationally respected, first-call concert hall for pop, rock, hip-hop, rap, indie, jazz, blues, comedy, cabaret, punk, goth, infotainment and more.
“The SNUG” Irish Pub
Kaiserslautern’s funnest place to be
Opened in August 2013 in the location of former Irish Pub, Thursty Nellys, it has been totally transformed by new manger, Lisa Muehlberger.
K1 HIGH ROPES Course Fröhnerhof
The attraction in the Palatinate forest
Climbing Fun – Up the trees
A wonderful piece of nature, healthy trees, a few loads of building wood, many meters of steel and the enthusiasm you bring along – discover for yourself the purest joy of climbing! The courses consist of exercises which make the way from one platform to the next a genuine adventure, with obstacles made from cables, swings, rope bridges and wooden bridges.
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