News for the Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl & Baumholder military communities in Germany 
Tuesday, Germans observe “Nikolaustag,” or “Santa Claus Day.” Traditionally, the night of Dec. 5 children will place their boots outside their rooms to have them filled by Santa Claus with candy, cookies, nuts, oranges and little gifts during the night.
The Messeplatz fairgrounds in Kaiserslautern will turn into a big amusement park today to Oct. 24, when the city will sponsor its traditional “Oktoberkerwe,” or October carnival. The event will feature rides for adults and children, beer gardens, and a wide range of merchandise as well as food and candy specialties.
Wednesday is St. Martin’s Day, and children and parents will walk in lantern processions that evening or the night prior to honor St. Martin, the patron of the poor and friend of children.
On Sunday, federal street B270 will be closed to motorized traffic for 31 km between Kaiserslautern and Lauterecken for “Autofreies Lautertal,” Car-free Lauter Valley.
A veteran of the post-World War II occupation returned to his former offices on Panzer Kaserne and Rhine Ordnance Barracks, as well as the scene of his marriage and much of his youth.
he smell of freshly baked pizza, homemade fresh pasta, crispy salads – Vapiano is this and much more.
Julia Cameron, the bestselling author of ‘The Artist Way’ defines an ‘Artist Date’ as a once-weekly, festive, solo expedition to explore something that interests us: a way to spend quality time with our inner creative self while leaving phones, laptops and our social agendas unattended. We’re extending this concept to include the whole family.
New to the area? Go see The Documentation and Exhibition Centre, a permanent exhibition, in bright red shipping containers close to Azur swimming pool in Ramstein that traces the history of U.S. Americans in Rheinland-Pfalz. There is a real commitment in K-Town to making history and collective memories exciting and available for the population.
Slicing through last month’s competition in Europe has earned the Kaiserslautern High School culinary team a spot at the national competition April 18 to 20 in Anaheim, California.
aiserslautern’s new downtown attraction, “K in Lautern,” opened its doors March 24 to shoppers ready to check out the highly anticipated mall’s shops, cafes and restaurants.
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