100 Sights in Aachen, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Aachen, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Aachen. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Aachen1. Herz Jesu
The Catholic Sacred Heart Church, colloquially known as Frankenberg Cathedral or Öcher Sacre Coeur, was built between 1908 and 1910 as a neo-Romanesque stone basilica designed by the architect Josef Kleesattel in the Frankenberger Viertel in the Aachen district of Burtscheid. The mosaic above the altar is the second largest in the Diocese of Aachen after the one in Aachen Cathedral.
2. Vaalserberg
The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of 322.4 metres (1,058 ft) above NAP and is the highest point in the European part of the Netherlands. The Vaalserberg is located in the province of Limburg, at the south-easternmost edge of the country, near the town of Vaals.
3. Altes Kurhaus
The Old Kurhaus of Aachen was built between 1782 and 1786 according to designs by Jakob Couven at Komphausbadstraße 19 as a Neue Redoute and an extension to the neighboring Alte Redoute Aachen at number 11. In contrast to the Old Kurhaus, the Kurhaus at Monheimsallee 44, which was inaugurated in 1916, is referred to as the Neues Kurhaus Aachen, which also housed the Aachen Casino until 11 June 2015.
4. Villa Cassalette
The Villa Cassalette is a former residential building in Aachen, Wilhelmstraße 18, which was built in 1883–1888 as a city palace in the historicist style of the Neo-Mannerism according to a design by the Aachen architect Eduard Linse. The building now houses the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum and is a listed building.
5. St. Johann Baptist
The former parish church of St. Johann-Baptist in Burtscheid is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to John the Baptist and former abbey church of the imperial abbey of Burtscheid. Since 2010, it has been part of the "Catholic Parish of St. Gregory of Burtscheid", a large parish formed in the Diocese of Aachen as part of the municipal structural reform implemented in 2008, which is named after the founder of the abbey, Abbot Gregor von Burtscheid, and to which, in addition to St. Johann-Baptist, the former parishes of St. Michael-Burtscheid and St. Aposteln, St. Gregorius and Herz-Jesu belong.
6. St. Nikolaus
The Church of St. Nicholas in Aachen is a former monastery church of the Franciscan order. It stands at the intersection of Großkölnstraße and Minoritenstraße in the immediate vicinity of the Barbarossa Wall, the inner city wall of Aachen. A first church there is mentioned in 1005; it was an early church where Nicholas of Myra was venerated. The current church was built in the first half of the 14th century. The building is a listed building.
7. Haus Monheim
Haus Monheim is a listed building in the old town of Aachen. It was a residential and commercial building of the Monheim family of pharmacists and is one of the surviving works of Jakob Couven in Aachen. Today it houses the Couven Museum and is registered as an architectural monument in the Aachen list of monuments.
8. Ostfriedhof
The Aachen East Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in the modern history of the city of Aachen, which was built in 1803 at the instigation of the French municipal government. It is located in the east of the city area and geographically belongs to the northern quarter. The East Cemetery was placed under monument protection on 6 December 1988 as one of the oldest examples of modern cemeteries.
9. St. Foillan
St. Foillan is one of the parish churches in Aachen, Germany. It is located in the pedestrian zone and is only separated from the cathedral by a narrow alley. It is the only church in the German-speaking world that has been placed under the patronage of Foillan. This is considered an indication that the missionary work in the Aachen area took place from the west.
10. Bilal-Moschee
The Bilal Mosque in Aachen was built between 1964 and 1971 on the grounds of the Technical University of Aachen and named after Bilal al-Habashi. It is the fifth oldest mosque in Germany after the Wilmersdorf Mosque in Berlin, the Fazle Omar Mosque in Hamburg, the Nuur Mosque in Frankfurt am Main and the Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg, as well as the fourth mosque built in Germany after the Second World War. The Bilal Mosque is considered a pioneer in terms of interreligious dialogue.
11. Aachener Tierpark Euregiozoo
The Aachen Zoo Euregiozoo is an 8.9-hectare zoo located between the districts of Forst and Beverau in Aachen's "Drimborner Wäldchen", which is named after the former family of the aldermen's mayors Hermann von Dremborn and Johann von Drimborn. The entrance is located in Obere Drimbornstraße.
12. Gut Melaten
The Melaten estate is a former estate in Aachen, Germany. The farm goes back to a medieval leprosarium, which was founded on the Via Regia leading to Maastricht. In the period until 1550, it served as a quarantine station for lepers and lepers. The name is derived from mal'ladre, the "disease of Lazarus". It is also known as the Aachen Leper House. The estate is an architectural monument, the site a geological and archaeological ground monument of the city of Aachen.
13. St. Adalbert
The Provost's Church of St. Adalbert in Aachen was the collegiate church of a collegiate monastery and was consecrated in 1005. This makes it the second oldest church in the city after Aachen Cathedral. St. Adalbert is located directly on today's Kaiserplatz and is dedicated to Adalbert of Prague, who was canonized in 999.
14. Heißbergfriedhof
The Heißberg Cemetery is a cemetery inaugurated in 1862 in the then independent town of Burtscheid, which was incorporated into a district of Aachen in 1897. It is located on the corner of Heißbergstraße and Kapellenstraße No. 2, diagonally opposite Burtscheid's Ferberpark. The complex is listed in its entirety.
15. Bankhaus Kapuzinergraben
The Bankhaus Kapuzinraben is a building built in 1910 in downtown Aachen and was originally seat of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Disconto-Society AG. Rheinisch-Westfälische Disconto-Gesellschaft AG was founded in 1905 from the Aachen discount society, which in turn emerged from the private bank in Scheibler & Charlier in December 1872. Leopold Scheibler was wealthy due to a flourishing freight forwarding business that transported cloth and wool goods from Monschau into the processing centers in Aachen and Cologne. The Charlier family in Roetgen has had one of the largest mills in the Monschauer Land since the 18th century.
16. Wylre'sches Haus
The Wylre'sche Haus in Aachen is a listed representative residential building at Jakobstraße 35. It takes its name from the forester, alderman and multiple mayor of the imperial city of Aachen, Johann Bertram von Wylre, who had it built in 1669 after the purchase of several plots of land. Since it was taken over by the Aachen branch of the Hoesch/Heusch family, it has also been referred to in literature and in the vernacular as Haus Heusch or Palais Heusch because of its furnishings.
17. Reiff-Museum
The Reiff Museum was a museum in Aachen, Germany. The museum was founded by Franz Reiff (1835–1902); because from the founding of RWTH Aachen University in 1870 as the "Royal Rhine-Westphalian Polytechnic School of Aachen", there was also a painting professorship, which was located in the Department of Architecture; the positions were held (successively): Franz Reiff, Alexander Frenz, August von Brandis, Hermann Haas. The collection of works of art served to train architects and art historians at the Polytechnic Technical University. Today, only part of the existing building has been preserved. The building refers to its original use via a cartouche with the inscription Reiff Museum. The original collection rooms on the 2nd floor have had a different use since the 1950s. The building houses the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University. The collection has been stored in a basement depot since 2012 and cannot be visited.
18. Neues Kurhaus
The New Kurhaus in Aachen, built between 1914 and 1916, is a neoclassical building in Aachen, Germany. The Kurhaus is located on the edge of Aachen's Stadtgarten on Monheimsallee and has the location designation Monheimsallee 44. The building is a listed building.
19. DAS DA Theater
The Das-Da-Theater is the largest professional private theater in the Aachen city region. It was founded in 1987 and is based in Liebigstraße on the site of the disused Old Slaughterhouse in Aachner's Nordviertel. In addition to the actual DAS DA Theater on Liebigstraße, external venues are used: the Gut Hebscheid in Aachen-Lichtenbusch and the open-air stage of Burg Wilhelmstein. In addition to adult theatre, DAS DA-Theater also plays children's theatre.
20. Propsteikirche St. Kornelius
The Provost's Church of St. Cornelius in Kornelimünster, a district of Aachen, is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Aachen. The church is dedicated to St. Cornelius, who was pope from 251 to 253. Originally, it was the monastery church of the imperial abbey of Kornelimünster. Due to the relics of Christ kept in it, it became the destination of numerous pilgrimages, especially during the Kornelimünster pilgrimage to the shrine, which takes place every seven years. After secularization in the Napoleonic era, it became the parish church of the parish of Kornelimünster. In addition, it remained a pilgrimage church and the destination of the pilgrimage that takes place every seven years.
21. Archäologisches Fenster
The Archaeological Windows in Aachen are showcases or viewing windows in the public space of Aachen's old town or in buildings that are at least temporarily open to the public or visible, in which historically important archaeological finds from Aachen's city history can be viewed at the place where they were found.
22. Campo Santo
The Aachen West Cemetery is a burial site in the west of the city of Aachen, which was established in 1889/90 as a denominationally separate complex on both sides of the arterial road from Aachen to Maastricht about one kilometer before the Dutch border. Both parts of the cemetery with a total size of 279,000 m² are run under the common postal address Vaalser Straße 334 in Aachen and are connected by a road overpass.
23. Friedhof Güldenplan
The Aachen City Garden with the central and 193 m high Wingertsberg is an urban park in Aachen with a landscape architecture. It consists of the hospital garden, which was laid out in 1852 and converted into a spa park in 1916, as well as the Farwickpark to the north, which was acquired in 1925, and the former Protestant cemetery Güldenplan, which was incorporated after 1945. The Stadtgarten has a total area of about 2.3 hectares and is located in the area between Monheimsallee, Jülicher Straße, Robensstraße, Passstraße and Rolandstraße.
24. STAWAG Stadtwerke Aachen AG
Stadtwerke Aachen AG (STAWAG) is the municipal utility of the city of Aachen and offers services in the areas of gas, district heating, water and electricity. This includes supplying the population of Aachen with gas, water, electricity and heat as well as advising and providing customer service for the use of energy in households and industry. The group is a subsidiary of Energieversorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft Aachen mbH (E.V.A.), which also has other subsidiaries (ASEAG, FACTUR Billing Solution).
25. Dreifaltigkeitskirche
The Holy Trinity Church is the largest Protestant church in Aachen. It was built between 1897 and 1899 on the historic city border between Burtscheid, which was independent until 1897, and the city of Aachen and is a listed building. In 2006, it was abandoned as a parish church in the course of the redivision of the parish districts and since 2015 has served as a youth church of the Evangelical Church of Aachen, which belongs to the Aachen church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
26. Salvatorberg
With a height of 229 meters, the Salvatorberg is the middle of Aachen's three "local mountains". The highest of these witness mountains is the Lousberg, the lowest the Wingertsberg. The Salvator Hill got its name after the Salvator Chapel built on it in the 9th century and the "Salvator Monastery" of the same name, which was later also founded there, both of which were dedicated to Jesus Christ in his capacity as Salvator Mundi.
27. Schwimmhalle Elisabethstraße
The Elisabethhalle is a municipal indoor swimming pool in Aachen, Germany, located at Elisabethstraße 10, not far from Aachen Cathedral. It was built from 1908 to 1911 in Art Nouveau style for a total of 900,000 marks and opened on 17 July 1911. The design came from the Aachen city architect Joseph Laurent. The Elisabethhalle is one of the few surviving indoor swimming pools from the Art Nouveau era that are still in operation today.
28. Grabeskirche St. Josef
St. Josef in Aachen is a former Catholic parish church, which is now used as a columbarium for urn burials under the name "Church of the Holy Sepulchre", also because the neighboring Aachen East Cemetery has reached the limits of its capacity.
29. Marschiertor
The Marschiertor, until the 17th century also called Mies(ch)ierspforte or later also Berseter Tor or Burtscheider Tor, was the south gate of the outer Aachen city wall. It is one of the mightiest surviving city gates in Western Europe. Its construction began around 1257 and was probably completed shortly after 1300. With the Marschidetermined Gate, also known as the Burtscheid Middle Gate, it had a counterpart in the inner ring of walls, the so-called Barbarossa Wall, which had a total of ten gates.
30. Wehrhafter Schmied
Wehrhafter Schmied is a fountain monument in Aachen designed in 1909 by the Aachen sculptor Carl Burger and created by the Düsseldorf ore foundry Bernhard Förster. It shows the figure of a blacksmith who, according to the legend The Blacksmith of Aachen, is said to have slain Count Wilhelm IV of Jülich.
31. Centre Charlemagne
The Centre Charlemagne – Neues Stadtmuseum Aachen is the local history museum of the city of Aachen. It received its French name after Charlemagne, the best-known and most important historical figure in Aachen; French was chosen instead of German because of the prominent position of the French language in the Eurégion Meuse-Rhin and EU.
32. Pfarrkirche St. Fronleichnam
The Aachen Church of St. Corpus Christi is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Josef and St. Corpus Christi and the most famous and at the same time best documented church building by Rudolf Schwarz. The sacred building, built in 1929/30, was originally the parish church of the parish of St. Corpus Christi, which was merged with the parish of St. Josef in 2005. The former parish church of St. Josef has been used as a columbarium for urn burials since November 2006 under the name Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
33. Heilig-Kreuz
Heilig Kreuz is a church in Aachen, Germany. It was consecrated in 1902 and is located in the Pontviertel, a northern area of the city on Pontstraße near the former city gate Ponttor. This means that it is in the immediate vicinity of the buildings of the RWTH Aachen University.
34. St. Peter
St. Peter's Church is a city church in Aachen, Germany, dedicated to St. Peter. It is located in the city center in the immediate vicinity of the bus station. The church is one of the oldest monuments in Aachen.
35. Varnenum
The so-called Varnenum is the excavation site of a Gallo-Roman temple district near Kornelimünster. It is located about 300 meters east of St. Stephen's Church on a plateau called "Schildchen". It is a Roman temple district, whose foundation and first building period is set in the time around the birth of Christ. The first documented excavations were carried out on the site in 1907, 1911, 1923 and 1924. A further excavation carried out in 1986 and 1987 was preceded by magnetometer prospections by the RAB and a phosphate analytical soil investigation, the drilling grid area of which covered approx. 250,000 m² and thus extended very extensively around the old excavation area.
36. Großer Neuenhof
The Großer Neuenhof is a listed courtyard in the Aachen district of Laurensberg, which dates back to the 14th century. The originally four-winged farm yard, made of quarry stones and bricks, used to be surrounded by a moat. The two-storey manor house was built in the first half of the 18th century. The building complex has been rebuilt several times and used in various ways. In 1972, the courtyard became the property of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and, after the reconstruction of the monument and a structural extension, is used as a building of the RWTH Aachen University.
37. Grashaus
The building at the Fischmarkt in Aachen, known under the name Grashaus, is not only one of the oldest houses in the city, but the first Aachen town hall is also of historical importance. It was completed in 1267, but is probably on even older foundations from possibly Carolingian times. The grass house owes the name to the grass, a medieval village long, on which both executions and the folk festivals and supposedly also the funeral of the executed took place.
38. Theresienkirche
The Theresienkirche is a Catholic city church in Aachen, Germany. It is located in the northeastern area of the city center and borders on the building areas of the RWTH Aachen University. It is owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as a special property.
39. Sankt Gregorius
The Church of St. Gregorius in Aachen-Steinebrück is a church of the "Catholic Parish of St. Gregory of Burtscheid", which was established on 1 January 2010 and is also referred to administratively as the "Community of Communities" (GdG) Aachen-Burtscheid. The church was built in the 1960s according to plans by the Cologne architect Stefan Leuer as the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Gregorius and consecrated on June 16, 1967 in honor of the canonized Pope Gregory the Great. In 2018, it was placed under monument protection and its crypt was converted into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the third of its kind in Aachen.
40. Aula Carolina
The Aula Carolina is a listed building that is available for both school gatherings and public cultural events. It is located at the southern end of Pontstraße in the center of Aachen. The auditorium belonging to the eponymous Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium is the former church of St. Katharina of the former monastery of the Augustinian hermits.
41. Lemierser Ölmühle
The list of historic mills in Aachen offers an overview of the most famous former water mills on the banks of the Aachen streams on the present-day territory of the city of Aachen. More than 70 mills could be proven on the basis of the sources and substantiated with data, although there were also other mills that have been historically forgotten or about which there is no information. The proven Aachen mills had once served, among other things, as grain, grist or oil mills as well as copper, grinding, fulling or dyewood mills and most of them had an overshot water wheel. From the early modern period onwards, they formed the basis for Aachen's economic rise, especially in the area of the cloth and needle industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, as evidenced, for example, by the history of the cloth industry in Aachen.
42. Sankt Hubertus
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Hubert is located in the Aachen district of Verlautenheide in the district of Haaren and belongs to the parish of Christ our Brother. The current church building dates back to 1954. The church is consecrated in honour of St. Hubertus of Liège.
43. Offene Tür St. Jakob
The Aachen Eye Hospital, also known as the Ophthalmology Institute in the Rhineland, was a hospital in Aachen, Stephanstraße 16–20, built in 1887/88 according to the design of the architect Eduard Linse, which is now used as a youth home. The historicist building is a listed building.
44. Elisengarten
The Elisengarten is a small park in the city center of Aachen on the rear side of the Elisenbrunnen. The Elisengarten was laid out between 1852 and 1854 according to plans by the Prussian master gardener Peter Joseph Lenné.
45. Hotmannspief
The Hotmannspief, also Hotmannspiif, is a fountain monument at the historic fountain site in Aachen, which was erected in 1825 according to designs by city architect Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel in the form of an obelisk and provided with figures in 1830.
46. Großes Haus von Aachen
The Great House of Aachen is probably the oldest surviving residential building in the city of Aachen. Its significance as an architectural monument lies in the fact that it survived the Aachen city fire of 1656 largely undamaged. The building now houses the International Newspaper Museum.
47. Hühnerdieb
Hühnerdieb is a fountain monument by the Berlin sculptor Hermann Joachim Pagels, which was unveiled at Christmas 1913 at the Aachen Hühnermarkt. It consists of the bronze figure of a chicken thief, which was mounted on a fountain bowl made of shell limestone. The figure shows the moment when the thief is astonished to discover that instead of the chicken, he has stolen a rooster, which crows and thus betrays him. However, the scene embodied in the figure is without historical precedent.
48. Barockfabrik
The Barockfabrik is a cultural centre under the municipal sponsorship of the city of Aachen. The state-approved vocational school for: acting • directing • musical, Aachen Theatre School, the Öcher Schängchen City Puppet Theatre, the dance workshop Art bewegt and Café Couleur are located here.
49. Gartenhaus Mantels
The Mantels Garden House, also known as the Kerstenscher Pavilion, is a Baroque garden pavilion designed by the Aachen master builder Johann Joseph Couven, today located on the southeastern slope of the Lousberg. The garden house is one of Couven's three surviving garden houses in Aachen, which also include the Nuellens garden house and the Pastor garden house, which was demolished in 1888.
50. Türelüre-Lißje-Brunnen
Türelüre-Lißje, also Turelure-Lieschen or Türelüre-Loetche, is the name of a legendary Aachen figure, to whom a fountain monument by the Aachen sculptor Hubert Löneke, which has stood at the entrance to Klappergasse since 19 November 1967, is dedicated.
51. Fischpüddelchen
Fischpüddelchen is a fountain monument originally erected in 1911 by Hugo Lederer in front of the baptistery of Aachen Cathedral at the fish market in Aachen. The figure was melted down during the Second World War and recreated in 1954 according to the destroyed model of Heinrich-Clemens Dick. The fountain is a modified copy of the Fischerbuberl fountain by the sculptor Ignatius Taschner, built in 1910 and now standing on Wiener Platz in Munich.
52. Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
The Ludwig Forum for International Art is a museum for modern art in Aachen. It is based on the Ludwig Collection, which was brought together by the Aachen collector couple Irene and Peter Ludwig, and is supported by the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation.
Wikipedia: Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (EN), Website
53. Ehrenmal
The Marienturm was a defensive tower of the outer city wall of the city of Aachen, which was built between 1300 and 1350. It is one of the few surviving towers of the former city fortifications and is one of the architectural monuments of the city of Aachen.
54. Domschatzkammer
The Aachen Cathedral Treasury is a museum of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aachen under the control of the cathedral chapter, which houses one of the most important collections of medieval church artworks in Europe. In 1978, the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, along with Aachen Cathedral, was the first monument on German soil to be entered in the List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The treasury contains works from Late Antique, Carolingian, Ottonian, Staufen, and Gothic times. The exhibits are displayed in premises connected to the cathedral cloisters.
55. Kriegerdenkmal
The Eilendorf War Memorial on Marienstraße in the Aachen district of Eilendorf is a memorial to the citizens of the village who died in the First World War, built in 1927 according to plans by the sculptor Fritz Neumann.
56. Kurpark Burtscheid
The Kurpark Burtscheid is a green space in the Aachen district of Burtscheid that was laid out at the end of the 18th century. The Burtscheid Kurpark is the oldest park in Aachen and has been changed several times in its size and use over time. Until the middle of the 20th century, more than 15 artesian thermal springs still sprang up within the spa park. There are several listed buildings on the park grounds, such as the translocated Nuellens Pavilion, the Fürstenbad and the former Neubad.
57. Pelzerturm | Steinreste
The Pelzer Tower was located on the Steineknipp hilltop, which is the highest point of the Aachen city forest at 358 m above sea level. The original construction consisted of mighty tree trunks and was built in 1886 at the suggestion of the head forester Franz Oster.
58. Salvatorkirche
St. Salvator on the Salvatorberg in Aachen is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church. The current building was completed in 1886. Predecessor buildings were first mentioned around the year 840 and dedicated to Jesus Christ in his capacity as Salvator Mundi by 870 at the latest.
59. Von-Halfern-Park
The Von-Halfern-Park is a park and arboretum in the southwest of Aachen on the Lütticher Straße, in the direction of Kelmis/Belgium, located directly and seamlessly on the northern edge of the Aachen city forest. It was laid out in the style of an English landscape garden and contains trees and plants up to 200 years old, including from North America, Europe and Asia.
60. Burtscheider Viadukt
The Burtscheid Viaduct was built between 1838 and 1840 as the first large German railway viaduct by the Rhenish Railway Company and is one of the oldest railway bridges still in use in Germany. It is located in front of Aachen Central Station on the Cologne–Aachen railway.
61. Puppenbrunnen
The Puppet Fountain is located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, on Krämerstraße, the connection between the cathedral and the town hall. It was donated by the Aachener Bank and created in 1975 by the Aachen sculptor Bonifatius Stirnberg.
62. Marktbrunnen
The Burtscheid Thermal Fountain is located in the Aachen district of Burtscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia at the Burtscheider Markt and is therefore also known as the Market Fountain. Since it is a public fountain, thermal water can be taken there free of charge.
63. Kalköfen
The Walheim/Kornelimünster lime kiln plants are a series of historic kilns, most of which are located in the Kornelimünster/Walheim district south of Aachen. They were used to extract burnt lime from limestone and were built between 1870 and 1924 and partially supplemented and modernised after the Second World War. However, they had to be closed as early as the mid-1950s, as structural changes in the lime industry meant that the operation of smaller individual kilns was no longer profitable.
64. Sankt Germanus
The Catholic parish church of St. Germanus is a listed church building in Haaren, a district of the city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2009, it has belonged to the parish of Christ our brother of the Catholic parish of Aachen-Nord and is dedicated to Germanus of Auxerre.
65. Haus zum Horn
Haus Zum Horn is a listed residential building in Aachen, Germany. It takes its name from Wilhelm VII van Horn, the owner of the previous building and patron of the neighbouring Dominican monastery in Aachen. He was married to Johanna von Moers and they had a son Jakob I, who donated a memorial plaque on his father's grave slab in the Dominican Church of St. Paul and later converted to the Franciscans.
66. Landgraben
The Aachener Landgraben is the name for the fortification along the almost 70 km long border of the former Aachen Empire. Individual sections can already be documented for the 14th and 15th centuries, but it was not until the beginning of the 17th century that the construction of the Landwehr was completed throughout and on 11 April 1611 by Albrecht VII of Habsburg, the acting regent of the Spanish Netherlands in Brussels, contractually legitimised with the aldermen and the city council in Aachen.
67. Sandkaulpark
The Sandkaulpark is the second largest park within the Aachen Alleenring after the Elisengarten. It was one of the few inner-city areas to be laid out in Aachen after the war by the so-called alignment line straightening. The residential buildings at the time, which were largely bomb-damaged, were demolished. The park is located within the monument area of protection zone B.
68. Haus Löwenstein
The building, known as Haus Löwenstein, at Markt No. 41, corner of Pontstraße in Aachen was built in parallel to the Aachen town hall and completed around 1344. In addition to the cathedral and town hall, it is one of the few Gothic buildings that survived the large city fire of 1656.
69. Kapelle St. Mariä Geburt | Maria im Tann
Maria im Tann is the centre for child, youth and family welfare and youth vocational assistance of the city of Aachen on the outskirts of the Preuswald district. It has its origins in the lung sanatorium for adults, which has existed since 1909 and its expansion to include a children's home in 1916, and has been managed since 1995 by the "Catholic Education Association for the Rhine Province" and the affiliated "Betriebsführungsgesellschaft mbH". The centre described above is a member of the "Working Group of Catholic Institutions and Services of Educational Assistance in the Diocese of Aachen" of the Aachen branch of the German Caritas Association and is currently home to around 220 children and young people. Around 110 employees are employed.
70. Genezareth-Kirche
The Genezareth Church in Aachen is a Protestant church in the west of Aachen, on the edge of the Laurensberg district, consecrated in 2018. It is an ensemble of sacred buildings and community rooms. The name refers to the Sea of Galilee, on the shores of which Jesus of Nazareth appeared in public.
71. Tritonenbrunnen
The Triton Fountain is a fountain monument originally erected in 1906–1910 in front of Aachen Central Station by the sculptor Carl Burger in Aachen, which was relocated to its current location in Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee in 1923. The fountain is also popularly called Aquarius. In fact, it shows Triton, a sea god of Greek mythology.
72. St. Paul
The Church of St. Paul in Aachen is a former Dominican church and later a Roman Catholic parish church. It was profaned in 2009 and has housed the Diocesan Archive of the Diocese of Aachen since 2018. The outer building, destroyed and rebuilt several times, preserves the character of the Gothic mendicant order church. The interior has been modernly redesigned.
73. Londoner Hof
The former London Court was a representative three-winged city villa from the 18th century built by Laurenz Mefferdatis at Kleinkölnstraße 18 in Aachen's city centre, whose actual origins lie in the 15th century. Of the current commercial building standing there, only the ground floor original from the time of Mefferdatis and the approx. 1700 m² floor plan have been preserved, whereupon the building was placed under monument protection in 1977.
74. Komericher Mühle
The Komericher Mühle is a historic mill in the Aachen district of Brand, which has been used by several owners in various functions since its first mention in the 16th century. It is one of former 21 mills in the Indetal nature reserve and is located on Komericher Weg No. 42/44. It currently consists of the old Komerich farmstead, built around 1800, and a building complex for the operation of the mill from the period between 1885 and 1926, all of which are listed as industrial monuments.
75. Burg Soerserhaus
The Soerser Haus, also known as Soerserhaus and Soerser Burg or Burg Soers, is a manor house in the Laurensberg district of Aachen, Germany. The former moated castle gave the Aachen Soers its name. It is located directly on the southern edge of the A4 motorway from the Dutch border in the direction of Cologne and is only open to the public for events.
76. St. Marien
St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic branch church in the south of Aachen's city center in the immediate vicinity of the main train station. Since 2010, the church has belonged to the large parish of Franziska von Aachen.
77. Kreislauf des Geldes
The Cycle of Money is a fountain in Aachen created in 1976 by Karl-Henning Seemann. It is located in Hartmannstraße at the end of the Elisengarten. The fountain, which is financed by the Sparkasse Aachen, is usually called Geldbrunnen in short. In 2007, the fountain figures were renovated.
78. Versöhnungskirche
The Church of Reconciliation is a Protestant church in Aachen-Eilendorf, Germany. It forms the parish district of the Church of Reconciliation within the Evangelical Parish of Aachen, which belongs to the Aachen church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
79. Vierecksturm
Berensberg Castle, also known as Haus Berensberg and Gut Berensberg, is a former aristocratic residence in the Herzogenrath district of Kohlscheid-Berensberg. Until the beginning of the 15th century, the property was owned as an Electoral Cologne fief by a lower noble family of the same name. Then it came to the von Harff family, who had the moated castle, which had been damaged in the Eighty Years' War, rebuilt as a four-winged complex at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through the marriage of a Harff daughter, the complex came to the von Reuschenberg family, under which a new manor house was built in 1714. Other owners were the Peltzer and Cockerill families. Since 1910, Berensberg Castle has belonged to the city of Aachen.
80. Alexianerkloster Aachen
The Alexian Monastery in Aachen is the mother house of the Alexian Brothers on the Alexianergraben in Aachen, the first documented mention of which dates back to 1391. The current building complex there consists of the convent building (Clemens Building) with the St. Alexius Church and the rear wings of the adjoining Alexian Hospital (Quirinus Building). The Clemens Building with the church was rebuilt in 1929 according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Wilhelm Pauen (1865–1949) and was placed under monument protection in 1980.
81. Theater Aachen
Theater Aachen is a theatre in Aachen, Germany. It is the principal venue in that city for operas, musical theatre and plays. It is the home of the Sinfonieorchester Aachen. The original project was by Johann Peter Cremer, later altered by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Construction on the original theatre began in 1822 and it opened on 15 May 1825. A bomb attack on 14 July 1943 destroyed the first theatre, and the current structure was inaugurated on 23 December 1951 with a performance of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
82. Henger Herrjotts Fott
The crucifixion group Henger Herrjotts Fott (Behind Herrgotts Gesäß), actually Osen Herrjotts Hazz (Our Lord's Heart), is a bronze sculpture by Bonifatius Stirnberg. It was erected on 27 August 1989 in Aachen as a replacement for a stone crucifixion group that had been lost in 1941 in the turmoil of the Second World War. It is located on a square between Wirichsbongardstraße and Schildstraße, which in 2003 was given the official postal address "Henger Herrjotts Fott" in allusion to the surrounding district of the same name.
83. Seepferdchenbrunnen
The seahorse fountain is a fountain monument in Burtscheid according to a design by the Aachen architect Gerhard Thomalla, which was originally set up in 1956 in the rotunda of the Elisenbrunnen after it was reoriented in 1952/53. The bronze figures of the six seahorses standing around the fountain column created the Aachen sculptor Josef "Jupp" Zeller. The fountain shell created from a dark marble block comes from the Ewald Mies stonemason workshop, the brother Ludwig Mies van der Rawes. It has a diameter of 3.30 meters. After the fountain was removed from the Elisenbrunnen, it was set up at its current location on Burtscheider Kapellenstrasse in 1971.
84. St. Matthias
St. Matthias is a Catholic branch church in Berensberg, a district in the Herzogenrath district of Kohlscheid. It belongs to the parish of Christ our Peace, which also includes the main church of St. Katharina in Kohlscheid, St. Barbara in Kohlscheid-Pannesheide, St. Mariä Heimsuchung in Kohlscheid-Kämpchen and St. Mariä Verkündigung in Kohlscheid-Bank. The church has been a listed building since 1985.
85. Röhrenbrunnen
The Röhrenbrunnen is a fountain in Aachen, Germany. It is located on a triangular square between Komphausbadstraße and Kurhausstraße north of the Old Kurhaus. The fountain was created in 1971 by the sculptor Heinz Tobolla.
86. Roskapellchen
The Roska Chapel is a listed chapel building in Aachen not far from the parish of St. Jakob and is used for the veneration of the Mother of God. It was built in 1758/1759 in the Baroque style as a replacement for a previously free-standing wayside shrine, into which a figure of the Virgin Mary from the early 16th century had been integrated. The chapel building is attributed in many sources to the Aachen master builder Laurenz Mefferdatis, but the cathedral master builder Joseph Buchkremer lists it as the work of Johann Joseph Couven. The "Roskapellchen" owes its name to the surrounding residential district, although it is not clear whether the name "Ros/Rues" is the name "via rotta" from Roman times or a reference to a nearby flax roast.
87. Zum Güldnen Verken
The Marianneninstitut was a maternity ward for poor women who had recently given birth in Aachen and the first of its kind in Prussia. The institute was founded in 1830 by the Aachen gynecologist and obstetrician Vitus Jakob Metz (1792–1866) and recorded more than 40,000 births by the time it closed in 1959. It was named after Princess Marianne of Prussia, the wife of Prince William of Prussia.
88. Jüdischer Friedhof Kornelimünster
The Jewish cemetery Kornelimünster is located in the Kornelimünster district of the city of Aachen in the Aachen city region (North Rhine-Westphalia). The 584-square-metre cemetery is located on Schildchenweg, opposite the municipal cemetery and near the church of St. Stephanus.
89. Haus Matthéy
The Matthéy House is a listed building in the Theaterstraße in Aachen with the house number 67. The original building was built in 1834 by Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel on behalf of the cloth manufacturer Heinrich Anton Deusner (1787–1870), a son of the cloth manufacturer and politician Christian Friedrich Deusner (1756–1844), who came from the Frankfurt am Main area and worked in Aachen, as a representative city villa in the classicist style. Of this, only the façade, which is now originally incorporated, exists. The house is named after the last private owner, the textile merchant and art collector Teo Matthéy (1901–1989). The building, which had been largely vacant for many years, was taken over by the married couple Volker and Andera Gadeib in June 2019 by heritable building right. From 2019 to June 2022, the city palace was extensively renovated in accordance with monument regulations and converted into the headquarters of the company Dialego AG.
90. Couven-Museum
The Couven Museum is a museum in the city centre of Aachen, western Germany. Since 1958, it is housed in the Monheim house, a 17th-century pharmacy, that was redesigned by the architect Jakob Couven in 1786. Several period rooms in Directoire, Empire and Biedermeier styles are on display, as well as the historic pharmacy, kitchen and a collection of faience tiles.
91. Haus Brüssel
The Brussels House is a listed building on the corner of Pontstraße and Marktplatz No. 43 in Aachen opposite the other corner house, Haus Löwenstein. It was built around 1785 by Jakob Couven on the foundations of a much older building, which was already mentioned around 1320 in the interest register of the Aachen Marienstift as "domus brusele". According to the city accounts of 1338/1339, after bitter battles, the peace treaty and the peace banquet between the city of Aachen and the field captain Hartrad von Schönecken took place in the House of Brussels, which is still commemorated today by an oil painting.
92. Gut Bodenhof
The Bodenhof estate, also known as Bodenhof for short, was a manor house with a representative manor house south of the then city of Aachen on the road to Eupen. Until the 17th century, the estate was also known as Laboenhof. All that remains of the estate today is the former main portal, a few wall bases and an arched bridge. These remains are listed as historical monuments.
93. Denkmal Kaiser Friedrich III.
The Kaiser Friedrich Monument in Aachen stands on Kaiserplatz. Erected in 1911, the monument in the form of an equestrian statue is dedicated to the German Emperor Frederick III, also known as the 99-Day Emperor.
94. Sankt Maria Schmerzhafte Mutter
St. Maria Schmerze Mutter is the Roman Catholic parish church in the district of Hahn in the district of Kornelimünster/Walheim in the city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The parish includes the subsidiary parish of Friesenrath with the chapel of St. Bernhard.
95. Friedenskapelle
The Peace Chapel is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in Haaren, today a district of Aachen. It is located on the Haarberg and belongs to the Catholic parish of Aachen Nord, Christus unser Bruder. It has been a listed building since 2009.
96. Burg Frankenberg
The Frankenberg Castle is a castle in the Frankenberg area of Aachen-Mitte, itself a district of Aachen, Germany. Its name comes from the concept of a "Franke", which was a type of castle that did not owe fealty to any others. Of course, shortly after its construction, the lowland castle became a fief of a Graf, and later belonged to the Duchy of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
97. Sankt Peter
St. Peter's is a parish church in Orsbach, a district of Aachen in the district of Laurensberg. The parish is affiliated with the Community of Congregations (GdG) Aachen-Nordwest, which also includes the churches of St. Heinrich in Horbach, St. Laurentius in Laurensberg, St. Martinus in Richterich, St. Konrad in Vaalserquartier and St. Sebastian in Aachen.
98. Büchelpalais
The Büchelpalais is a residential and commercial building in Aachen, Germany. It was built in 1889 in the Neo-Renaissance style and stands on the Büchel on the corner of Rethelstraße. The building is registered as an architectural monument in the list of architectural monuments in Aachen.
99. Vinzenz-Kapelle
The Vincenz Chapel in Niederforstbach, a district of Aachen-Brand, is a Catholic church building that belongs to the parish of St. Donatus in Aachen-Brand and belongs to the parish association of the GdG Aachen/Forst/Brand. It was built in 1756 as an "earthquake chapel" and dedicated to St. Vincent Ferrer and placed under monument protection in the 1990s.
100. Apolloniakapelle
The Apollonia Chapel Eilendorf is a Roman Catholic place of worship in the "Oberdorf" of the Aachen district of Eilendorf. It was built in 1774 and is the only one of five chapels in the then independent district of Eilendorf to be preserved, making it the oldest sacred building in the village. The entire chapel complex has been a listed building since the 1980s and has been looked after by the "Förderverein zum Erhaltung der Apollonia-Kapelle e. V." since 2010.
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