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The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles. The throne and gallery portion date from the Ottonian , with portions of the original opus sectile floor still visible. Finally, a choir was added around the start of the 15th century.

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After Frederick Barbarossa canonised Charlemagne, in , the chapel became a destination for pilgrims. The church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city. In the upper chamber of the gallery, Charlemagne's marble throne is housed. Most of the marble and columns used in the construction of the cathedral were brought from Rome and Ravenna , including the sarcophagus that Charlemagne was eventually laid to rest in.

These were in contrast to a wolf and a statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline. Finally, there is uncertainty surrounding the bronze pine cone in the chapel, and where it was created. Wherever it was made, it was also a parallel to a piece in Rome, this in Old St. Aachen Cathedral Treasury has housed, throughout its history, a collection of liturgical objects.

The origin of this church treasure is in dispute as some say Charlemagne himself endowed his chapel with the original collection, while the rest were collected over time.

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Others say all of the objects were collected over time, from such places as Jerusalem and Constantinople. Matthew's Chapel until , when it was moved to the Karlskapelle Charles' Chapel. From there it was moved to the Hungarian Chapel in and in to its present location next to the Allerseelenkapelle Poor Souls' Chapel. The Coronation Gospels and a reliquary burse of St.

Stephen were moved to Vienna in and the Talisman of Charlemagne was given as a gift in to Josephine Bonaparte and subsequently to Rheims Cathedral. Charles IV donated a pair of reliquaries. Louis XI gave, in , the crown of Margaret of York , and, in , another arm reliquary of Charlemagne. The Aachen Rathaus, English: Aachen City Hall or Aachen Town Hall dated from , [21] lies between two central squares, the Markt marketplace and the Katschhof between city hall and cathedral. The coronation hall is on the first floor of the building. Inside you can find five frescoes by the Aachen artist Alfred Rethel which show legendary scenes from the life of Charlemagne, as well as Charlemagne's signature.

Also, precious replicas of the Imperial Regalia are kept here. Since , the city hall has been a station on the Route Charlemagne , a tour programme by which historical sights of Aachen are presented to visitors. At the city hall, a museum exhibition explains the history and art of the building and gives a sense of the historical coronation banquets that took place there.

As before, the city hall is the seat of the mayor of Aachen and of the city council, and annually the Charlemagne Prize is awarded there. The Grashaus , a late medieval house at the Fischmarkt , is one of the oldest non-religious buildings in downtown Aachen. It hosted the city archive, and before that, the Grashaus was the former city hall until the present building took over this function.

The Elisenbrunnen is one of the most famous sights of Aachen. It is a neo-classical hall covering one of the city's famous fountains. It is just a minute away from the cathedral. Just a few steps in a south-easterly direction lies the 19th-century theatre. Also of note are two remaining city gates, the Ponttor Pont gate , half a mile northwest of the cathedral, and the Marschiertor marching gate , close to the central railway station. There are also a few parts of both medieval city walls left, most of them integrated into more recent buildings, but some others still visible.

There are even five towers left, some of which are used for housing. It is attributed to the Rhine mannerism and a sample of a local Renaissance-architecture. The church is a Greek Orthodox church today, but the building is used also for concerts because of its good acoustics. The synagogue in Aachen, which was destroyed on the Night of Broken Glass Kristallnacht , 9 November , was reinaugurated on 18 May There are numerous other notable churches and monasteries , a few remarkable 17th- and 18th-century buildings in the particular Baroque style typical of the region, a synagogue, a collection of statues and monuments, park areas, cemeteries, among others.

Among the museums in the town are the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum , which has a fine sculpture collection and the Aachen Museum of the International Press , which is dedicated to newspapers from the 16th century to the present. Carolus Thermen, thermal baths named after Charlemagne. A statue commemorating David Hansemann. There have been a number of spin-offs from the university's IT technology department.

Aachen is the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast. Products manufactured in Aachen include electrical goods, textiles, foodstuffs chocolate and candy , glass, machinery, rubber products, furniture, metal products. Kampker was also the founder and chairman of the European Network for Affordable and Sustainable Electromobility.

In May , the company announced that the city of Aachen, the city council Aachen and the savings bank Aachen had ordered electric vehicles from the company. In April , StreetScooter GmbH announced that it would be scaling up to manufacture approximately 10, of the Work vehicles annually, starting in , also in Aachen.

In , Aachen became the first coin-minting city in the world to regularly place an anno Domini date on a general circulation coin , a groschen. The thriving Aachen black metal scene is among the most notable in Germany, with such bands as Nagelfar , The Ruins of Beverast , Graupel and Verdunkeln. The local speciality of Aachen is an originally hard type of sweet bread, baked in large flat loaves, called Aachener Printen. Unlike Lebkuchen , a German form of gingerbread sweetened with honey, Printen use a syrup made from sugar. Today, a soft version is sold under the same name which follows an entirely different recipe.

RWTH Aachen University , established as Polytechnicum in , is one of Germany's Universities of Excellence with strong emphasis on technological research, especially for electrical and mechanical engineering, computer sciences, physics, and chemistry. It also maintains a botanical garden the Botanischer Garten Aachen.

The AcUAS offers a classic engineering education in professions such as mechatronics , construction engineering, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering. It also has the only programme of study in Germany especially designed for mothers. The annual CHIO short for the French term Concours Hippique International Officiel is the biggest equestrian meeting of the world and among horsemen is considered to be as prestigious for equitation as the tournament of Wimbledon for tennis.

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The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division , after its promotion in However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the fourth division. The stadium "Tivoli" , opened in , served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division. The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32,, began in May and was completed by the beginning of Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof Central Station , was constructed in for the Cologne—Aachen railway line.

In it was moved closer to the city centre. The Euregiobahn , a regional railway system, reaches several minor cities in the Aachen region. There are four smaller stations in Aachen: Slower trains stop at these. There are two stations for intercity bus services in Aachen: The first horse tram line in Aachen opened in December After electrification in , it was with maximal Many tram lines extended to the surrounding towns of Herzogenrath , Stolberg , Alsdorf as well as the Belgian and Dutch communes of Vaals , Kelmis then Altenberg and Eupen.

The Aachen tram system was linked with the Belgian national interurban tram system. Like many tram systems in Western Europe, the Aachen tram suffered from poorly-maintained infrastructure and was so deemed unnecessary and disrupting for car drivers by local politics. On 28 September the last line 15 Vaals—Brand operated for one last day and was then replaced by buses.

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Because of the location at the border, many bus routes extend to Belgium and the Netherlands. There are plans to eliminate traffic jams at the Aachen road interchange. There is a shuttle-service between Aachen and the airport. Since , a committee of Aachen citizens annually awards the Charlemagne Prize German: Karlspreis to personalities of outstanding service to the unification of Europe. It is traditionally awarded on Ascension Day at the City Hall.

In , the Charlemagne Award was awarded to Pope Francis. The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year to US president Bill Clinton , for his special personal contribution to co-operation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe , and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union. Aachen is twinned with: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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In February , Ryanair announced the cancellation of 18 routes from Weeze for the summer season stating a lack of aircraft. The airport has had several different names in its history as a civil airport. Weeze Airport features one passenger terminal building featuring restaurants and shops besides the check-in facilities. The apron, which lies to the west of the terminal building, features nine aircraft stands for mid-sized aircraft such as the Boeing As there are no jet bridges due to the location of the apron — it is located to the west of the terminal building instead in front of it — bus-boarding is used for 6 stands.

Only 3 stands are close to the terminal which could be boarded by foot.

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