Damaged buildings included the medieval churches of St. Foillan, St. Paul and St. Nicholas, and the Rathaus ( city hall ), although Aachen Cathedral was largely unscathed.

Ford Motor Company | Ford Research Center, Aachen.

File: Aachen Le jugement de Paris. jpg | Hans von Aachen, c. 1588

File: Hans von Aachen 037. jpg | Hans von Aachen, c. 1593.

Aachen Gospels ( c. 820 ), an example of Carolingian Illuminated manuscript | illumination.

image: Aachen Cathedral Octagon1. jpg | Mosaics

image: Aachen Cathedral Octagon2. jpg | Mosaics

image: Aachen cathedral 007. JPG | Shrine of the Virgin Mary ( 1238 )

Image: Aachen Refraktor. JPG | Refractor at the Observatory in Aachen, Germany.

Louis XIV's gains before the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ( Aachen ): Cambrai, Aire-sur-la-Lys | Aire and Saint-Omer as well as the Franche-Comté were returned, the other gains remained under Louis XIV's rule

Image: Allsehendes Auge am Tor des Aachener Dom. JPG | An all-seeing eye that appears on the gate of Aachen Cathedral.

Image: Laubsauger-LKW. jpg | Vegetable oil ( Pflanzenöl ) powered vacuum cleaner truck ( Laubsauger-" leaf sucker "), Aachen, Germany

File: Tivoli Aachen, Würselner Wall, Mai 2009. jpg | Würselen wall

File: Tivoli Aachener Wall. jpg | Aachen wall

File: Tivoli Aachen, Pressetribüne II, Mai 2008. jpg | Aachener und Münchener stand

File: Karolingischer Buchmaler um 820 001. jpg | Carolingian depiction from an Aachen Gospel, 820

Image: Finial_rathaus_aachen. jpg | Stone finial at Aachen town hall

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Aachen, Prussia

Folio 13 recto of the Aachen Coronation Gospels contains the Evangelist portrait | portraits of the four Evangelists.

File: Karl der große. jpg | Imperial crown on the head of the Charlemagne reliquary in Aachen

Image: Wurm at Gut Kalkofen. jpg | Wurm at Gut Kalkofen, Aachen

| align = left | Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost city of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, west of Cologne.

RWTH Aachen University, one of Germany's Universities of Excellence, is located in the city.

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.

During the Middle Ages, Aachen remained a city of regional importance, due to its proximity to Flanders, achieving a modest position in the trade in woollen cloths, favoured by imperial privilege.

Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich ; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.

The city and its fortified sourroundings were encircled 13 September – 16 October 1944 by the US 1st Infantry Division and 3rd Armored Division in conjunction with the US 2nd Armored Division and 30th Infantry Division during the prolonged Battle of Aachen, later reinforced by US 28th Infantry Division elements.

Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies.

Aachen is connected to the Autobahn A4 ( West-East ), A44 ( North-South ) and A544 ( a smaller motorway from the A4 to the Europaplatz near the city centre ).

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.

In 1372, Aachen became the first coin-minting city in the world to regularly place an Anno Domini date on a general circulation coin, a groschen.

By 1559 the Germany city of Aachen alone was capable of producing 300, 000 cwt of brass per year.

Brundtland was awarded the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen.

Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors ( which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics ) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid.

In 1954, he received the Karlspreis ( English: Charlemagne Award ), an Award by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea, European cooperation and European peace.

The city is part of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, the Euregio that includes Aachen, Hasselt and Liège in respectively Germany and Belgium.

* The city of Aachen, Germany, begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins, the first city in the world to do so.

After occupying Aachen for five days, Lothair returned to France after symbolically disgracing the city.

In 2003 he received the Charlemagne Award of the German city of Aachen.

Albert of Aachen and Fulcher of Chartres locate the battleground in the plain opposite to the city of ar-Raqqah.

The municipality covers an area of 23. 90 km² in the foothills of the Ardennes – Eifelrange and is located about 23 km east of Maastricht and 5 km west of the city centre of Aachen.

In September the American tank armies in Lorraine literally ran out of gas, and during October the Allied offensive gradually lost momentum and came to a halt on a line well west of the German border in most sectors, although the frontier city of Aachen fell on 21 October.