ICE high speed trains from Brussels via Cologne to Frankfurt am Main and Thalys trains from Paris to Cologne also stop at Aachen Central Station.

Aachen is also famous for its carnival ( Karneval, Fasching ), in which families dress in colorful costumes.

It also maintains a botanical garden ( the Botanischer Garten Aachen ).

There are also a number of regional airports, the most popular being Eindhoven Airport, Maastricht Aachen Airport, Rotterdam The Hague Airport and Groningen Airport Eelde.

Led by Rudolph Hermann who arrived in April 1937 from the University of Aachen, the number of technical staff members reached two hundred in 1943, and it also included Hermann Kurzweg of the ( University of Leipzig ) and Walter Haeussermann.

He was also patron to some of the best contemporary artists, who mainly produced new works in the Northern Mannerist style, such as Bartholomeus Spranger, Hans von Aachen, Giambologna, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Aegidius Sadeler, Roelant Savery, and Adrian de Vries, as well as commissioning works from Italians like Veronese.

He also received the two imperial cities, Aachen and Rome.

Elected King of the Romans 16 February 1486 in Frankfurt-am-Main at his father's initiative and crowned on 9 April 1486 in Aachen, Maximilian also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493.

And there are also related dialects around Aachen and in the extreme north of the province of Liège.

Limburgish is also spoken in a considerable part of the German Lower Rhine area, in what could be called German-administered Limburg: from the border regions of Kleve, Aachen, Viersen, Heinsberg stretching out to the Rhine river.

Neighboring districts are Viersen, district-free city Mönchengladbach, Neuss, Düren and Aachen, and also the Dutch province Limburg.

Sélestat was also more central to the Empire than Aachen.

The seat of the institution remained undecided over years ; while the prince initially favored Koblenz, the cities of Aachen, Bonn, Cologne and Düsseldorf also applied, with Aachen and Cologne being the main competitors.

While the ( then no more royal ) TH Aachen flourished in the 1920s with the introduction of the more independent faculties, several new institutes and the general students ' committee, first signs of nationalist radicalization were also visible within the university.

In the latest ranking published by DAAD together with Centre for Higher Education Development and Die Zeit, RWTH Aachen also stands on top among other German universities in the aforementioned fields of engineering and computer science.

Charles also created a large palace at Aachen, a series of roads, and a canal.

On 21 October, soldiers of the 26th Infantry Regiment, supported by the reinforced battalion of the 110th Infantry Regiment finally conquered central Aachen ; that day also marked the surrender of the last German garrison, in the Hotel Quellenhof, ending the battle for the city.

Ironically, it was the 3 – 0 home defeat to Bochum on 5 May that mathematically secured HSV's Bundesliga status as struggling Alemannia Aachen ( 16th ) and Mainz ( 17th ) also lost their games on the same weekend and despite the points difference only being six points with two games left, the goal difference was too large to make up by either club.

Charlemagne also is said to have acquired a piece of the sponge, which is venerated in the cathedral at his capital, Aachen.

There is also a survey by Charles Sims from Rutgers University and an older survey by Joachim Neubüser from RWTH Aachen.

On 17th May 2008, Alemannia Aachen began building a new stadium also named Tivoli nearby, which replaced the old stadium on 17th August 2009.

The airport is also northwest of the city of Aachen, Germany.

There is some documentary proof that the Romans named the hot sulfur springs of Aachen Aquis-Granum, and indeed to this day the city is known in Italian as Aquisgrana, in Spanish as Aquisgrán and in Polish as Akwizgran.

In 936, Otto I the Great was crowned as king at Aachen ; his coronation as emperor by the Pope at Rome in 962 inaugurated what became later known as the Holy Roman Empire, which became to be identified with Germany.

General Bradley and his First Army commander, General Courtney Hodges eventually decided to attack through a corridor known as the Aachen Gap towards the German township of Schmidt.

Eupen ( German () and French (), previously known as Néau in French ) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, from the German border ( Aachen ), from the Dutch border ( Maastricht ) and from the " High Fens " nature reserve ( Ardennes ).

The church is the oldest cathedral in northern Europe and was known as the " Royal Church of St. Mary at Aachen " during the Middle Ages.

Johannes Gutenberg, better known for his contribution to printing technology, marketed a kind of periscope in the 1430s to enable pilgrims to see over the heads of the crowd at the vigintennial religious festival at Aachen.

</ div > The Klinikum Aachen, full German name " Universitätsklinikum Aachen " ( University Hospital Aachen ), abbreviated UKA, formerly known as " Neues Klinikum ", is the largest hospital in Europe, located in Aachen ( Germany ).

Fighting around Aachen began as early as the second week of September, in a period known to the Germans as the " First Battle of Aachen ".

On the 24 April 1748 a congress assembled at Aachen ( French: Aix-la-Chapelle ) for the purpose of bringing to a conclusion the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession.

The Old Tivoli in Aachen, Germany, was the stadium of Aachen's best known football team Alemannia Aachen until 2009.

Today, Jülich is mainly known for its world-famous research centre ( established in 1956 ) and the satellite campus of the Fachhochschule Aachen ( established in 1970 ).

In cooperation with the universities, what are known as " research schools " ( e. g. " German Research School for Simulation Science " with RWTH Aachen University or " International Helmholtz Research School of Biophysics and Soft Matter " with the universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf ) are founded in an effort to support the scientific training of students.

The Aachen Gospels may refer to either of two illuminated manuscript Gospel Books, more precisely known as the Aachen Coronation Gospels ( Aachen, Cathedral Treasury, s. n.

The prototype may have been one known to have been set up in Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel in Aachen, apparently in gold foil worked over a wooden core in the manner of the Golden Madonna of Essen, though figureless jeweled gold crosses are recorded in similar positions in Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in the 5th century.

Of the numerous mineral springs the best known were those of Aachen and Kreuznach.

He soon found that wing venation alone was not enough to classify the Dipera correctly and he began to make drawings of the antennae viewed under a 20-power wooden-framed microscope purchased at the fair in Aachen, This, a lens of about 6-power, and his own very sharp eyesight and visual memory led him to the next important conclusion, that the Diptera could only be classified using character combinations ; what is now known as an eclectic system ..

As a spa city, Aachen could use the title Bad Aachen, but as the town then would not appear in first place on alphabetically ordered lists, it declined to do so.

These occasions were Mogadishu in 1977, Bad Kleinen in 1993, Aachen in 1999 and two more missions where firearms were used to shoot dogs of the persons being arrested.

Perhaps, not able to attend properly to his medical duties through ill health-he visited the spa town of Bad Aachen in 1817-Wiedemann changed employment ( to Pharmacology ) and had several semi-honorary positions.