The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

Phillips won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006.

In December 2006, RWTH Aachen and the Sultanate of Oman signed an agreement to establish a private German University of Technology in Muscat.

He once again played the entire match on his Bundesliga debut in Leverkusen's first match of the 2006 – 07 season, a 3 – 0 win at home to Alemannia Aachen on 12 August 2006.

* W. Mückenheim: Die Mathematik des Unendlichen, Aachen 2006.

After his contract expired in late August 2006, Németh agreed to join German Bundesliga club Alemannia Aachen.

Several interested parties competed over a period of several months until it was announced in December 2006 that the brand rights had been sold to the perfume company Mäurer & Wirtz in Aachen, a subsidiary of the Dalli Group.

* Member of the US Eventing Team at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen ( team finished in fourth place )

In May 2006, he signed a three-year deal with Alemannia Aachen and on 12 July 2007 he moved to another German club, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Aachen was heavily damaged during World War II.

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

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside Aachen.

The Battle of Aachen was a major conflict of the Second World War, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 2 – 21 October 1944.

As part of the Aachen Cathedral, the chapel is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* Member of the 4th place Team at the Show Jumping World Championships, Aachen

After World War II Alemannia Aachen played in the Oberliga West, and the stadium became too small.

Aachen Flugzeugbau was a German aircraft manufacturer of the early 20th century, established around the time of World War I.

After World War II, during which his family lived in Switzerland, von Puttkamer studied mechanical engineering at Konstanz and the Technische Hochschule ( RWTH Aachen ) in Aachen, graduating with a university degree.

In 2010, she represented Monaco at the World Junior Diving Championships in Aachen, Germany, and in July 2010 she competed in the European Junior Swimming and Diving Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

In its 2011 and 2012 surveys amongst human resources officers, the Wirtschaftswoche business magazine consistently ranked RWTH Aachen the first in Germany in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering and natural sciences, with computer science being ranked third in 2011 and second in 2012.

* Hans Von Aachen Exhibition in Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna October 2010-January 2011

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 ).

Solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Bern, CH ( 1991 ); Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Kunstverein Leverkusen, GER ( 1997 ); Helmhaus Zurich, CH ( 1998 ); University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh PA, USA ( 2000 ); Kunstmuseum Solothurn, CH ( 2005 ); Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, GER ( 2005 ); Haunch of Venison, Zurich ( 2007 ); Cohan and Leslie, New York ( 2008 ); Nolan Judin, Berlin ( 2009 ); Fred Jahn, Munich ( 2009 ); Haunch of Venison, London ( 2009 ); Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich ( 2010 ); Haunch of Venison, London ; Nolan Judin, Berlin ( 2011 ); Haunch of Venison, London ( 2011 ); Void, Derry ( 2012 )

Shaker, Aachen 2001, S. 7-26.

This permission opening the door to luxurious living, the council of Aachen, AD 817, decreed that the abbot should dine in the refectory, and be content with the ordinary fare of the monks, unless he had to entertain a guest.

He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school in Aquae Grani ( Aachen ) under Alcuin.

Aachen (, also known as Bad Aachen ) is a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and later the place of coronation of the Kings of 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.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

Medieval architecture can be found in Aachen.

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

Since Roman times, the hot springs at Aachen have been channelled into baths.

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 the year of his coronation as King of Franks, 768, Charlemagne came to spend Christmas at Aachen for the first time.

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.

Charlemagne spent most winters between 792 and his death in 814 in Aachen, which became the focus of his court and the political centre of his empire.

Over the next 500 years, most kings of Germany destined to reign over the Holy Roman Empire were crowned in Aachen.

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.

From the early 16th century, Aachen lost power.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.