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.
Dautzenberg put together a resistance group in Aachen and Eschweiler, which was broken up by the Gestapo in August 1944.
In 1926, he closed his print shop in Eschweiler and became a flight instructor with Raab-Katzenstein and continued to hone his flying skills, becoming an accomplished stunt pilot.
Ralf Souquet (pronounced soo-kay) (born 29 November 1968 in Eschweiler, Germany) is a German professional pool player.
Götz Briefs (b. January 1, 1889, in Eschweiler d. May 16, 1974, in Rome) was a Catholic social theorist, social ethicist, social philosopher and political economist, who together with Jesuit Gundlach, influenced the social teachings of Pope Pius XI.
The concession for the construction and operation of the extension of the line to Hochneukirch, Jülich, Inden and Weisweiler to Eschweiler-Aue, with a total length of 48.77 km, was granted to the BME on 23 September 1870.
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The Eschweiler-Weisweiler Langerwehe line is a 2.4 km long rail link, in the Eschweiler district of Weisweiler, connecting Eschweiler-Weisweiler station and Langerwehe station in the neighbouring community of Langerwehe.
Dialects belonging to the Ripuarian group almost always call themselves Platt like Öcher Platt (of Aachen) or Eischwiele Platt (of Eschweiler), Kirchroadsj Platt (of Kerkrade) Bocheser Platt (of Bocholtz) or Bönnsch Platt (of Bonn).