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Cologne District
Aachen

Aachen

Aachen is a historically important city, spa and university centre in , situated at the "three lands corner" where the borders of , and the meet.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Aachen Cathedral and Aachen Town Hall.

Church
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is a Catholic church in Aachen, and the cathedral of the Diocese of Aachen. One of the oldest cathedral buildings in Europe, it was constructed as the royal chapel of the Palace of Aachen of Emperor Charlemagne, who was buried there in 814.

Town hall
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is a landmark of cultural significance located in the Altstadt of Aachen, . It was built in the Gothic style in the first half of the 14th century.

Railway station
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is the most important railway station for the city of Aachen, in the far west of near the and border. It is the largest of the four currently active Aachen stations, and is integrated into the long-distance network.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laurensberg and Forst.

Suburb
is a quarter and borough of Aachen, . As a borough, includes, in addition to itself, Orsbach, Seffent, , Vaalserquartier and Vetschau, as well as the residential areas of Gut Kullen and Steppenberg.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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The formerly independent municipality of lies four kilometers north of Aachen, into which it was incorporated in 1972. lies at the fork of the Wurm, itself a tributary of the Rur, and a smaller stream that shares its name with the community.

Aachen

Latitude
50.7751° or 50° 46′ 30″ north
Longitude
6.0833° or 6° 5′ east
Population
242,000
Elevation
266 metres (873 feet)
IATA airport code
AAH
United Nations Location Code
DE AAH
Open location code
9F28Q3GM+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240041315
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3247449
Wiki­data ID
Q1017
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aachen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aken”
  • Amharic: “አኽን”
  • Arabic: “آخن”
  • Aragonese: “Aachen”
  • Aragonese: “Aquisgrán”
  • Armenian: “Աախեն”
  • Armenian: “Ախեն”
  • Arpitan: “Aachen”
  • Asturian: “Aachen”
  • Asturian: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • Asturian: “Aquisgrán”
  • Asturian: “Oche”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aaxen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Axen”
  • Balinese: “Aachen”
  • Basque: “Akisgran”
  • Bavarian: “Aachen”
  • Belarusian: “Аахэн”
  • Belarusian: “Ахен”
  • Bengali: “আখেন”
  • Bosnian: “Aachen”
  • Breton: “Aac’hen”
  • Breton: “Aachen”
  • Bulgarian: “Аахен”
  • Bulgarian: “Ахен”
  • Catalan: “Aquisgrà”
  • Cebuano: “Aachen (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Aachen”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاخن”
  • Chechen: “Ахен”
  • Chinese: “Aachen”
  • Chinese: “亚琛”
  • Chinese: “亞琛”
  • Chinese: “阿亨”
  • Chinese: “阿臣”
  • Corsican: “Aquisgrana”
  • Croatian: “Aachen”
  • Czech: “Aachen”
  • Czech: “Cáchy”
  • Danish: “Aachen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aachen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Axın”
  • Dutch: “Aachen”
  • Dutch: “Aken”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اخين”
  • Esperanto: “Aachen”
  • Esperanto: “Aĥeno”
  • Esperanto: “Akeno”
  • Estonian: “Aachen”
  • Finnish: “Aachen”
  • French: “Aachen”
  • French: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • Friulian: “Aachen”
  • Galician: “Aquisgrán”
  • Georgian: “აახენი”
  • German: “Aachen”
  • German: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • German: “Aken”
  • German: “Bad Aachen”
  • German: “Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen”
  • German: “Oche”
  • Greek: “Άαχεν”
  • Greek: “Αιξ-λα-Σαπέλ”
  • Gujarati: “આકેન”
  • Hebrew: “אאכן”
  • Hindi: “आखन”
  • Hindi: “आचेन”
  • Hungarian: “Aachen”
  • Icelandic: “Aachen”
  • Ido: “Aachen”
  • Indonesian: “Aachen”
  • Interlingua: “Aachen”
  • Interlingua: “Aquisgrano”
  • Interlingue: “Aachen”
  • Irish: “Aachen”
  • Italian: “Aachen”
  • Italian: “Aquisgrana”
  • Japanese: “アーヘン”
  • Kannada: “ಆಚೆನ್”
  • Kashubian: “Achen”
  • Kazakh: “Ахен”
  • Kirghiz: “Ахен”
  • Kölsch: “Aachen”
  • Kölsch: “Oche”
  • Kongo: “Aachen”
  • Korean: “아헨”
  • Kotava: “Aachen”
  • Kurdish: “Aachen”
  • Ladin: “Aachen”
  • Ladin: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • Ladin: “Aken”
  • Ladin: “Aquisgrana”
  • Ladin: “Oche”
  • Latin: “Aquae Grani”
  • Latin: “Aquisgranum”
  • Latvian: “Āhene”
  • Ligurian: “Aachen”
  • Limburgan: “Aoke”
  • Lithuanian: “Achenas”
  • Lojban: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • Lombard: “Aquisgrana”
  • Low German: “Aachen”
  • Low German: “Aken”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aachen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oochen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Aachen”
  • Macedonian: “Ахен”
  • Malagasy: “Aachen”
  • Malay: “Aachen”
  • Malayalam: “ആക്കൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ആഹ്ഹൻ”
  • Maltese: “Aachen”
  • Marathi: “आखन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aachen”
  • Minangkabau: “Aachen”
  • Moksha: “Аахэн”
  • Mongolian: “Аахен”
  • Mongolian: “Ахен”
  • Narom: “Aachen”
  • Neapolitan: “Aachen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aachen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aachen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aachen”
  • Norwegian: “Aachen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aquisgran”
  • Ossetian: “Аахен”
  • Ossetian: “Ахен”
  • Persian: “آخن”
  • Persian: “آکن”
  • Persian: “ریپوآری”
  • Picard: “Aachen”
  • Piemontese: “Aachen”
  • Polish: “Akwizgran”
  • Portuguese: “Aachen”
  • Portuguese: “Aix la Chapelle”
  • Portuguese: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • Portuguese: “Aquisgrano”
  • Portuguese: “Aquisgrão”
  • Portuguese: “Oche”
  • Pushto: “آخن”
  • Quechua: “Aachen”
  • Romanian: “Aachen”
  • Romansh: “Aachen”
  • Russian: “Ахен”
  • Sardinian: “Aachen”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Aachen”
  • Scots: “Aachen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aachen”
  • Serbian: “Aachen”
  • Serbian: “Ахен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aachen”
  • Sicilian: “Aquisgrana”
  • Silesian: “Aachen”
  • Sinhala: “ආචෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Aachen”
  • Slovenian: “Aachen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آخن”
  • Spanish: “Aquisgran”
  • Spanish: “Aquisgrán”
  • Swahili: “Aachen”
  • Swedish: “Aachen”
  • Swiss German: “Aachen”
  • Tagalog: “Aachen”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Aachen”
  • Tajik: “Аахен”
  • Talysh: “Aaxen”
  • Tamil: “ஆஃகன்”
  • Tatar: “Ахен”
  • Telugu: “ఆకెన్”
  • Thai: “อาเคิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Aachen”
  • Tumbuka: “Aachen”
  • Turkish: “Aachen”
  • Turkish: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
  • Turkish: “Aquisgranum”
  • Turkish: “Bad Aachen”
  • Ukrainian: “Аахен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aachen”
  • Urdu: “آچن”
  • Urdu: “آخن”
  • Uzbek: “Aachen”
  • Venetian: “Aachen”
  • Vietnamese: “Aachen”
  • Vlaams: “Aachen”
  • Volapük: “Aachen”
  • Walloon: “Åxhe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aachen”
  • Welsh: “Aachen”
  • Western Frisian: “Aken”
  • Western Panjabi: “آخن”
  • Wolof: “Aachen”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚琛”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿臣”
  • Zeeuws: “Aken”
  • Zulu: “Aachen”
  • “Aachen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aachen”. Photo: Knipptang, CC BY-SA 3.0.