Charles the Great
2.4.747(8) - 28.1.814

Pfalz
Source: Röm.-Germ. Zentralmuseum Mainz
Scheme of the palace constructed after the first stay of Charles the Great in Ingelheim in September 774.
Aerial view of the former Palace area
Link to "Time and Life of Charles the Great" by Christian Ilaender (in german).
Reiterstatuette Karl 
des Grossen
Equestrian statuette (Louvre, Paris)

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Begining of June 1999 opened the Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz in Ingelheim.

Left Fig.: The former palace area about 1550 from Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster, who was born 1489 at Ingelheim.

Not too far from Ingelheim in Lorsch at the Bergstrasse (near Heppenheim) is situated the Imperial Monastery Lorsch.

From 23.7. - 1.11.99 takes place the exhibition 799 - Art and Culture in the Time of the Carolinguians - Charles the Great and Pope Leo III in Paderborn.

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