Aachen in a sentence

St. Michael's Church, Aachen was built as a church of the Aachen Jesuit Collegium in 1628.

The city is known by a variety of different names in other languages: Aachen dialect Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

Serfs, nobles, men, women, old and young—all took part in the “dancing plague” of Aachen.

Any genuine hope of denying Aachen to the Americans for an extended time lay not with the small Schnelle combat group but with a promise from Commander-in-Chief West Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt to commit his most potent theater reserves.

PKK-affiliated groups and far-left organizations claimed responsibility for more than two dozens of attacks on Turkish mosques, associations and shops in various German cities, including Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Aachen.

Swiss rider Steve Guerdat jumps over an obstacle during July’s Grand Prix of Aachen in Germany.

Aachen was the place of coronation of the German emperors, and the ecclesiastical principalities of the Rhine played a large role in German history.

Advances were made in architecture (at Aachen and Ingelheim, for instance), technology (such as the iron horseshoe and the padded harness for plowing with horses), and agriculture (for example, the system of triple crop rotation).

After occupying Aachen for five days, Lothair returned to France after symbolically disgracing the city.

Also in and around Aachen is the production of chemicals, plastics, cosmetics, and needles and pins.

Also in the late 1970s, Lichtenstein's style was replaced with more surreal works such as Pow Wow (1979, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen ).

As an imperial city, Aachen held certain political advantages that allowed it to remain independent of the troubles of Europe for many years.

As the Imperial City of Aachen refused to let him enter through its gates, Rupert was crowned by Archbishop Frederick III in Cologne on 6 January 1401.

Because of its location north of the Eifel and the High Fens and its subsequent prevailing westerly weather patterns, rainfall in Aachen (on average 805 mm/year) is comparatively higher than, for example, Bonn (with 669 mm/year).

Bradford, Huddersfield, Sheffield and York have inner-ring roads made by re-aligning existing roads while Halifax has a town-centre relief scheme made up of the Aachen Way and the North Bridge flyovers.

Church reforms seeAlso Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen Cathedral Unlike his father, Pippin, and uncle, Carloman, Charlemagne expanded the reform program of the church.

Conrad was crowned at Aachen six days later (13 March) and was acknowledged in Bamberg by several princes of southern Germany.

Courtney Hodges ′ First Army experienced hard resistance pushing through the Aachen Gap and perceived a potential threat from enemy forces using the Hürtgen Forest as a base.

Education reforms Arm reliquary of Charlemagne, located at the Cathedral Treasury in Aachen A part of Charlemagne's success as a warrior, an administrator and ruler can be traced to his admiration for learning and education.

Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich ; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.