Things to check out around Fritz Walter Stadion?

Fritz Walter Stadion is a venue in or near Kaiserslautern that is most often used for Soccer

Kaiserslauten offers passionate fans the opportunity to walk in the players footsteps and enjoy an hour and a half tour of the stadium. The tours take place on a gameday, 3.5 hours before kickoff. Although this means that you get to feel the building atmosphere in the stadium, you are not allowed access to the changing rooms which is a shame. Fans can see the press areas as the VIP areas before taking a walk down the tunnel to pitch side and being lucky enough to take a seat in the dugout! Tickets are a bargain at €5!The towns other big attraction is the Gartenschau Park. It has great scenery as well as life size dinosaurs that the kids will love!

Kaiserslautern itself is not too big of a city. If arriving at the train station, for instance, you can easily walk towards the city center first (about 600m) and take a stroll to the town hall or even the Japanese Gardens. Back to the stadium it's only a 15-minute walk, climbing the so-called "Betzenberg” will be your final task before getting into the stadium. Kaiserslautern is a neat, little city, you should take your time, get here a bit earlier and walk around.

Kaiserslautern itself is not too big of a city. If arriving at the train station, for instance, you can easily walk towards the city center first (about 600m) and take a stroll to the town hall or even the Japanese Gardens. Back to the stadium it's only a 15-minute walk, climbing the so-called "Betzenberg” will be your final task before getting into the stadium. Kaiserslautern is a neat, little city, you should take your time, get here a bit earlier and walk around.

Kaiserslautern doesn't have much to give aside from football, but there are a few other footballing treasures to discover even when there's no game on. The Fritz-Walter-Stadion is named for Fritz Walter, one of the greatest players in German history, who won the World Cup in 1954 - at the ground there is a statue of him, his brother Otto and Werner Liebrich, Werner Kohlmeyer and Horst Eckel, all World Champions while Lautern players.