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1306 – Aachen becomes a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire. 1309 – Coronation of Henry VII as King of the Romans. 1314 – Coronation of Louis IV as King of the Romans. 1349 – Coronation of Charles IV as King of the Romans. 1353 – Aachen Town Hall built.
During the First World War, a hospital and a recovery home for soldiers were set up in the glass palace of the park, but it was completely destroyed by a major fire in 1917. The park was revived by the reopening on 23 May 1920. From then on he was named Westpark. Two years later, in 1922, a new but considerably smaller glass palace was opened ...
The sword-billed hummingbird ( Ensifera ensifera) is a neotropical species of hummingbird from the Andean regions of South America. Among the largest species of hummingbird, it is characterized by its unusually long beak, being the only bird to have a beak longer than the rest of its body, excluding the tail.
Westwacht Aachen. Westwacht Aachen is a German football club from the city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The footballers played as a fourth division side in the late 1970s [1] and currently compete in the sixth tier Landesliga. They are part of a sports club with over 800 members that also has departments for swimming, fitness, and frisbee.
Aachen Hauptbahnhof. Aachen Hauptbahnhof ( German for Aachen main station) is the most important railway station for the city of Aachen, in the far west of Germany near the Dutch and Belgian border. It is the largest of the four currently active Aachen stations, and is integrated into the long-distance network .
e. Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the ...
The Sinfonieorchester Aachen, formerly known as Städtisches Orchester Aachen, is one of the oldest orchestras in Germany that is directed by the city. [1] In the beginning it consisted of military musicians of the city guard, supported by part-time string players. It was not until 1771 that the musicians applied for the establishment and ...
