Aachen Cathedral has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Only slower trains stop at these, but Aachen-West has developed enormous importance due to the expanding RWTH Aachen university.

Aachen has the hottest springs of Central Europe with water temperatures of 74 ° C ( 165 ° F ).

* Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor has Charlemagne's vault opened ( see Aachen Cathedral ).

He has been confused with his twin brother Alfonso ( a courtier of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who attended Charles's coronation in Aachen in 1520 and was Latin secretary of state from 1524 ).

Middle Francia ( Latin Francia media ) thus included all the land between Aachen and Rome and it has sometimes been called by historians the " Lotharingian axis ".

He was never canonized, and his veneration has been mostly suppressed, though permission is given to celebrate Mass in his honor in the cities of Aachen and Osnabrück, but without using the title of " Blessed.

RWTH Aachen has achieved recognition in several fields of engineering and science, especially mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, computer science, physics and chemistry.

The proximity of Aachen to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg combined with the subsequent exposure to a variety of cultural heritages has placed RWTH Aachen University in a unique position with regards to the reflection and promotion of international aspects and intensive interaction with other universities.

It has been awarded once a year since 1950 by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the ideals upon which it has been founded.

Following the presentation of the award to the Italian Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi in 1952, the International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen has repeatedly sent messages going far beyond Germany and promoting the " unity of Europe ".

Although the palace no longer exists, the chapel has been incorporated into the Aachen Cathedral, Germany.

Lindt & Sprüngli has six factories located in Kilchberg, Switzerland ; Aachen, Germany ; Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France ; Induno Olona, Italy ; Gloggnitz, Austria ; and Stratham, New Hampshire in the United States.

Traditionally the festival has been in October, held in a bunker deep underground Aachen, Germany.

He has received honorary doctoral degrees ( Doctor honoris causa ) from the University of Aachen ( 2002 ), University of Aveiro ( 2003 ), University of Copenhagen ( Copenhagen Business School ; 2009 ), University of Leiden ( 2010 ), University Ramon Llull, Barcelona ( 2010 ), University of Coimbra ( 2011 ) and from the EPFL, Lausanne ( 2011 ).

Contiki was created by Adam Dunkels in 2003 and is has been further developed by a world-wide team of developers from Atmel, Cisco, Enea, ETH, Redwire, RWTH Aachen University, Oxford University, SAP, Sensinode, SICS, ST Microelectronics, Zolertia, and many others.

MAGMA was founded in 1988 and has its Headquarters in Aachen, Germany.

Wolf Kahlen ( born 7 January 1940 in Aachen, Rhine Province ) is a German video artist who has been exhibiting since the 1960s.

A modern legend identifies as Brie de Meaux a certain cheese, " rich and creamy ", with an edible white rind that in the eighth century French Emperor Charlemagne first tasted in the company of a bishop and approved, requiring two cartloads to be sent to Aachen annually ; the site, not mentioned in the anecdotal but unreliable ninth-century life of Charlemagne, De Carolo Magno by Notker the Stammerer, has become associated with the monastery traditionally founded by Rado in Reuil-en-Brie.

The city of Aachen is near the Belgian and Dutch borders and as a result Alemannia has had frequent contact with clubs from those countries.

Horn has received several awards for his achievements in foreign relations, among others the Charlemagne Award of the city of Aachen in 1990.

The college has twinning programs with many institutions including Konyang University, South Korea University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, West Virginia University, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Lamar University, all in the United States ; Aachen University and University of Muenster in Germany ; ISMANS, France ; University of Sydney and University of Wollongong, both in Australia.

The local specialty of Aachen is an originally stonehard type of sweet bread, baked in large flat loaves, called Aachener Printen.

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

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.

For a large sum he sold his vote to Richard of Cornwall, brother of Henry III of England, and crowned him at Aachen on 17 May 1257.

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.

Thus by 1848, the towns of Aachen, Cologne and Düsseldorf were heavily industrialized with a number of different industries represented.

Success in Aachen was measured by the number of houses captured, as the advance proved to be sluggish ; in order to cope with the thick walls of the older buildings in the city, the 26th Infantry Regiment used the howitzer at point blank range to destroy German fortifications.

The city hosts a number of electronics start-ups, profiting from the neighbouring Technical University RWTH Aachen.

He further acquired at various times a number of other provostships: in St. Severin in Cologne, Aachen, Deventer and Zutphen.

The region's main artistic centres were the cities of Liège, Huy, Dinant, Namur, Tongeren, Maastricht, Roermond and Aachen, as well as a number of important monasteries: Sint-Truiden, Aldeneik, Herkenrode, Averbode, Munsterbilzen, Susteren, Sint Odiliënberg, Rolduc, Burtscheid, Kornelimünster, Stavelot, Nivelles, Aulne, Floreffe, Flône, Celles, Gembloux and Lobbes.

He went on to remain there in a mansion which he may have extended, although there is no source attesting to any significant building activity at Aachen in his time, apart from the building of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen ( since 1929, cathedral ) and the palatial presentation halls.

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.

Starting in 1840, the railway from Cologne to Belgium passed through Aachen.

For 600 years, from 936 to 1531, Aachen Cathedral was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens.

Inside you can find five frescoes by the Aachen artist Alfre Rethel which show legendary scenes from the life of Charlemagne, as well as Charlemagne's signature.

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 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 ).

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

HSL 3 continues this route from Liège to the German border near Aachen.

Recently, scientists from the Technical University of Aachen ( RWTH ) in Germany analyzed bubble tea samples within a research project in order to look for allergenic substances.

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.

* 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

Category: People from Aachen

On Maundy Thursday 817, Louis and his court were crossing a wooden gallery from the cathedral to the palace in Aachen when the gallery collapsed, killing many.

The birth of this son damaged the Partition of Aachen, as Louis's attempts to provide for his fourth son met with stiff resistance from his older sons, and the last two decades of his reign were marked by civil war.

Seeking help from a physicist, on March 14, 1888, he wrote to Otto Lehmann, at that time a < i lang =" de "> Privatdozent </ i > in Aachen.

This road had started out in the Middle Ages as a lane running out from Berlin to the hamlet of Schöneberg, but it had developed into part of a trading route running right across Europe from Paris to St. Petersburg via Aachen, Berlin and Königsberg.

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.

Named after the Inklings is The Inklings Society based in Aachen, and their yearbook, Inklings Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik, published from 1983 by Brendow, Moers.