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30 unusual facts about Aachen


Adalbert of Prague

His life has been written about in Vita Sancti Adalberti Pragensis by various writers, the earliest being traced to imperial Aachen and Liège/Lüttich's bishop Notger von Lüttich, although it was assumed for many years that the Roman monk John Canaparius wrote the first Vita in 999.

Alexander Sakkers

During his term in office he was responsible for the increased cooperation between the three local technology cities Eindhoven, Aachen and Leuven.

Arnold Förster

Arnold Förster, who was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884.

Bonifatius Becker

On 27 May 1956, he received the blessing of his Benediction in the recently and built under his instigation and management new Abbey which had been consecrated on 2 May 1956 by the Bishop of Aachen, Johannes Pohlschneider.

Calcium 2-aminoethylphosphate

The only reported trial involving Ca-AEP was performed in 1966 in Aachen, and shown only moderate improvement in movement disturbance but no other benefit.

Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton

Lady Anne died in 1751 and the Duke married Lavinia Fenton on 20 October 1751 at Aachen.

Cherubikon

In the history of Byzantine music manuscripts the cherubikon appears quite late in liturgical manuscripts with musical notation, not before the late 12th century, while the earliest sources are of Carolingian origin—sacramentaries with a so-called "Missa greca" like a Hadrianum written in Korvey (near Aachen).

Daniel Blagrave

On the restoration of King Charles II, Daniel Blagrave fled the country and settled at Aachen, in what is now Germany, where he died in 1668.

Derby Castle Depôt

In the past there have been various other edifices, including an ex-Aachen tramcar used as a store in the 1970s among others.

Dermott Lennon

Lennon was part of the Irish team that won their first European Championship title at the European Show Jumping Championships in Aachen riding Liscalgot.

Flugwerk Deutschland GmbH

Flugwerk Deutschland GmbH transferred its headquarters from Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen to Brand, a district of Aachen in Germany.

Gail Greenough

Greenough won the 1986 World Show Jumping Championships in Aachen, riding a horse named Mr T (Hann).

George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield

During 1790, he stayed at: Grossen Hotel, Dubigk; Karlsbad (bei Herr Brammertz); Kaiserbad, Aachen (bei Herr Mohren).

Guglielmo Stefani

Agenzia Stefani (Agenzia Telegrafica Stefani) was founded by Stefani in Turin, Italy in 1854, at a time when news agencies were also being established in other major European cities: Charles-Louis Havas established the Havas agency in Paris in 1836, Dr. Bernard Wolff established an agency in Berlin in 1849, and Paul Reuter established Reuters in London in 1858 (relocating from Aachen, where it had been established in 1851).

Jeffrey Leiwakabessy

In 2006–07 he moved to Alemannia Aachen in Germany, which had just returned to the Bundesliga after a four-decade absence; during the campaign he appeared in all 34 league matches, but could not help prevent the side's immediate relegation.

Johannes Joseph van der Velden

Johannes Joseph van der Velden (born August 7, 1891, died May 19, 1954) was a Catholic theologian and Bishop of Aachen.

Miguel Vila Ubach

He won the gold medal at the Individual endurance at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany in 2006.

Moniek Nijhuis

Nijhuis broke the national record in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke (SC) in Aachen at an early season meet.

Mustafa Güngör

Güngör, born in Aachen of Turkish descent, began playing rugby when he was nine years old in 1990.

Noemi Batki

She won her first medal aged 16 at the Juniores European Championships in Aachen, Germany, where she won the silver medal in the 3 metres springboard synchro competition, together with her mate Francesca Dallapè, and won the bronze medal in the platform event.

Odo of Metz

Eudes of Metz is credited as the architect of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen with the Palatine Chapel, in Aachen.

Palatine

Increasingly, the count palatine of Lotharingia, whose office had been attached to the royal palace at Aachen from the 10th century onward, became the real successor to the Carolingian count palatine.

Riccardo Bavaj

Riccardo Bavaj (born 1976 in Aachen) is a German historian.

Roetgen

Roetgen is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Roetgen is located approximately 15 km (9 mi) south-east of Aachen, near the border to Belgium.

Sascha Maassen

Sascha Maassen, born September 28, 1969, in Aachen, Germany) is a veteran sports car driver.

Sharon Hunt

This gained her a place as an individual at the World Equestrian Games, in Aachen, Germany, where she finished 9th.

Siege of Hainburg

He left Hungary on a feigned pilgrimage to Aachen; the real reason was he was not in favor with the Gabriel Rangoni of Verona, the Bishop of Gyulafehérvár.

Wolfgang Seifen

Seifen studied church music at the Gregoriushaus in Aachen.

Zentis

The company was established by Franz Zentis on 20 June 1893 in Aachen as a trading company.


Aachen Altar

The Aachen Altar (de: Aachener Altar) or Passion Altar (Passionsaltar) is a late gothic passion triptych in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, made by the so-called Master of the Aachen Altar around 1515/20 in Cologne, Germany.

Alphons Bellesheim

Christian Peter "Alphons" Maria Joseph Bellesheim (December 16, 1839 Monschau, Germany - February 5, 1912 Aachen, Germany) was a church historian.

August Euler

Euler was born at Oelde in Westphalia and was educated at Oelde and at public schools in Cologne and Aachen and from 1885 started a career in engineering.

Bertram Huppert

In 1984, Huppert founded, together with Gerhard Michler, the first Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft priority programme in Mathematics at the German universities of Aachen, Bielefeld, Essen and Mainz.

Bundesstraße 1

A trade and military road was already mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography about 150 AD, parts of it formed the medieval Westphalian Hellweg trade route, vital for the transport of salt and crops, and the course of the Via Regia, the Ottonian "royal road" trough the Holy Roman Empire from Aachen to Magdeburg.

From the late 18th century onwards, parts of the route were rebuilt as a chaussee, mainly in the area between Aachen and Jülich as well as on the nearby territory of the County of Mark, promoted by the Brandenburg-Prussian administration under Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein.

Carl Joseph Begas

Carl Joseph Begas (September 30, 1794 – November 24, 1854), was a German historical painter born at Heinsberg near Aachen.

Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz are held in the public media to be Germany's three carnival "strongholds," but carnival celebrations are also widespread elsewhere in the Rhineland, in places such as Wattenscheid, Hagen, Krefeld, Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, Bonn, Eschweiler, Bocholt and Kleve.

Cisrhenian Republic

Under the terms of the Peace of Basel in 1795, the Kingdom of Prussia had been compelled to cede all her territories west of the Rhine, and together with the west-Rhenish territories of the Prince-Bishops of Trier, Mainz and Cologne, the Electorate of the Palatinate, the duchies of Jülich and Cleves, and the free city of Aachen they were combined into the short-lived Cisrhenian Republic under the rule of a "Protector" Louis Lazare Hoche, a French general.

De Pippini regis Victoria Avarica

They were defeated in 795 by Duke Eric of Friuli, who sent an enormous booty to the imperial capital of Aachen; one of their princes, a tudun, submitted and did homage.

Dispersion of the apostles

The first vestige of this feast appears in the undoubtedly authentic sequence composed for it by a certain Godescalc (d. 1098) while a monk of Limburg on the Haardt; he also introduced this feast at Aachen, when provost of the Church of Our Lady.

E314

European route E314, a European route class B road connecting the Belgian city of Leuven with the German city of Aachen

FH Aachen

While the Jülich site displays a campus atmosphere since all facilities are together in one place, the Aachen site is not a campus university.

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory

--(1775 berühmter Farbenprobeteller in London).--> By 1776 the Frankenthal porcelain factory had shops in Aachen, Basle, Frankfurt am Main, Livorno, Mainz, Munich and Nancy.

Henry V of Iron

As a vassal of Bohemia, Henry V also participated in many ceremonies and diplomatic activities on behalf of King John and later his son and successor, Charles IV, for example in Charles's coronation on 1 September 1347 in Prague, two years later when he joined to the King's suite in a trip to Avignon and Aachen, and finally in 1355 when he travel to Italy and witnessed the King's imperial coronation in Rome.

Herbert Mataré

Later Mataré taught physics and mathematics in Wabern near Kassel and gave lectures at the Aachen university, and he was invited to build a semiconductor diode plant for Compagnie des Freins & Signaux Westinghouse in Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris.

Heribert Offermanns

Heribert Offermanns (October 24, 1937 in Merkstein near Aachen) is a German chemist and former member of the board of the Degussa AG.

Jacob Soll

Through his maternal Grandmother, Liese Bronfenbrenner, née Price, Soll is the great grandson of the English author and professor, Hereward Thimbleby Price, and a descendent of the Prym family of industrialists and academics from Aachen, Stolberg, Düren and Bonn, Germany.

Jakob Dautzenberg

Jakob Dautzenberg (born 2 February 1897, in Würselen (today part of the district of Aachen); died 20 August 1979 in Aachen) was a German politician, member of the Communist Party of Germany, and resistance fighter against the Nazis.

Jenny Erpenbeck

As a freelance director, she directed in 1998 different opera houses in Germany and Austria, including Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Aachen, Acis and Galatea at the Berlin State Opera and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Zaide in Nuremberg/Erlangen.

March of Friuli

In 828 the last Friulian duke, Baldric, was removed from office by Emperor Louis the Pious at the Imperial diet of Aachen, as he had not been able to defend the Pannonian frontier against the troops of Khan Omurtag of Bulgaria.

Meuse–Rhine Euroregion

It comprises 11.000 km² and has around 3.9 million inhabitants around the city-corridor of AachenMaastrichtHasseltLiège.

Neven

Hartmut Neven (born 1964 in Aachen, Germany) is a scientist working in computational neurobiology, robotics and computer vision

Notow

More odd items found is a musical instrument known as a "Pilgrim's horn", made in the German town of Aachen in the 15th century where such horns are known to have been used at coronation ceremonies or religious holidays, and a mortar made of Rhine basalt.

Olga Scheps

Characterized by musical surroundings of her family, especially of her father Ilja Scheps who is also a pianist and moreover professor at the Aachen section of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, she began piano lessons at the age of four.

Oppenhoff

Franz Oppenhoff, mayor of Aachen, Germany (born August 18, 1902, in Aachen, Germany; died March 25, 1945, in Aachen, Germany)

Poor Sisters of St. Francis

Schervier formed a small community with four companions, all members of the Third Order of St. Francis, in the city of Aachen, in the Kingdom of Prussia, in 1845.

Quintuple Alliance

After Aix-la-Chapelle (now Aachen), the Alliance powers met three more times: in 1820 at the Congress of Troppau (Opava), in 1821 at the Congress of Laibach (Ljubljana); and in 1822 at the Congress of Verona.

Rainald of Dassel

Rainald won the consent of the King of England to common ecclesiastico-political action in behalf of Paschal and once more took up arms in defence of his one ambition, which he hoped the proposed canonization of Charlemagne at Aachen in 1165 would advance.

Rhein-Niers-Bahn

Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, opened from Duisburg to Uerdingen by the Rhenish Railway Company on 23 December 1873, from Uerdingen to northern Viersen by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway on 15 October 1849 and from northern Viersen to Mönchengladbach by the Prussian state railways in 1917; and

Robert O'Hara Burke

Towards the end of 1847 he suffered health problems and went to Recoaro spa in northern Italy, then Grafenberg and finally Aachen before resigning from the Austrian army in June 1848 after charges against him relating to debts and absence without leave were dropped.

Saul K. Padover

(In this capacity following a fact-finding mission to occupied Aachen he leaked the identity of the city's U.S.-appointed mayor Franz Oppenhoff, following which Heinrich Himmler ordered Oppenhoff's assassination.)

Vaals

Vaals turned from a wealthy industrial town into a leisure and holiday destination for the citizens of Aachen, slightly resembling Monte Carlo because of its casinos.

Vera Hilger

2011 exhibition celebrating the nomination to the IKOB Arts Award 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen Vera Hilger - Works 2010/11, Gallery Freitag 18.30, Aachen (D)