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hundreds of years of history the palatine chapel is the oldest part dating back to the eighth century charlemagne largely considered the father of europe had a medieval chapel built as part of his palace it's the only remaining component of his residence. his remains are also kept here. this is true and of course always when you have world heritage status it's a big responsibility to make sure the building remains preserved. or and. if it's all. the city must also ensure that there are protections owns around the cathedral get that there are no skyscrapers which would obscure the view of it to the dorms leaving but the city and its people do all they can to make sure that the angel maintains its status as a world heritage site it does put on the of course one unique feature of aachen cathedral is that more than thirty kings were crowned here in the middle ages crew needed an all clear unfolds and up stairs we have what's called charlemagne's throne which was probably built during his time here on the from cardiff. to toward this. in september of one nine hundred seventy eight the cathedral wasn't

he's a warlord but we know him as charlemagne. madness manyrollas times for a thousand years, it will sound like charlemagne. and he comes to his rescue with an army. a frankish army. and in exchange the pope offers him a small token of his gratitude which is he makes him emperor of the world. lodgeurns to his hunting in the capital of the empire at that time with the population smaller than the rancho bernardo inn. that begins the foundation of what later is transformed in various stages into the holy roman and are german nation to destination. -- the german nation. his successor claim to have the power to appoint bishops in germany. this pope says, that's my responsibility because they are of the church. this sets a great conflict between them called the investiture conflict. thehas the right to a point land and their keys of authority. the german emperor henry the fourth of saxony says, that's my job and i represent god on earth. this pope says, you are wrong. and youe a great debate might think, who's going to win that? the ge

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people who wished to be free of the rule of the 88 warlords and -- idiots warlords and charlemagne's warlords who made wishe feudal mobility, who to trade in peace, who wished to be able to live without risk of conscription by the warlords and so on, they would come together and build walls, and pledged themselves to the fence of the walls -- to the defense of the walls enjoying in the making of laws to join the society within the walls. cities were carved out more or less against the will of local powers a lot of the time. people wished to be free of the local power. and that freedom was in the first instance the collective corporate freedom. we govern ourselves inside these walls. we are not subject to the feudal hierarchy directed by the church or what have you. but then there was a powerful sense of freedom for individual members of the city. the freedom of the city was also the freedom of the citizens. freehat it was to become after breathing city air for a year and a day was to be individually free from the ties fromudal obligations, the ties of course to marriage, from duties