Mosaic inside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedachtniskirche), Protestant church, located in Berlin on the Kurfurstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz. Taking of the Franks from 768, king of the Lombards from 774, and emperor of the Romans from 800. During the Early Middle Ages, he united the majority of western and central Europe. He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.