Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Aachen, Germany

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The paradise fountain is a fountain in Aachen in the cloister of the Aachen Cathedral in 1897 by Georg Frentzen.

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The statue of Charlemagne is a prominent public sculpture representing Charlemagne in Aachen. It was first erected in 1620 on the Marktplatz in front of Aachen Town Hall, as part of the monumental Karlsbrunnen fountain. The statue now standing on the Karlsbrunnen is a 1969 copy, and the original has been kept since 2014 at the nearby Centre Charlemagne museum. It has become the most popular image of Charlemagne in the monarch's chosen capital of Aachen.

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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.

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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.

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The International Newspaper Museum in Aachen presents the history of newspapers and the topic of press history.

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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.

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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.

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The Karlshof Fountain is located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia in the courtyard of the Karlshof in the immediate vicinity of Aachen's market square.

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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.

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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.

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Rote Burg is the name of a historic residential building in Aachen, Germany. It stands on the Büchel and is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Aachen.

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The Haus zum Lindenbaum is a former commercial and residential building in Aachen, Germany. It has been part of the Couven Museum since 1961. The building is a listed building.

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The Haus zum Mohren is a listed building in Aachen, Germany.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Elisenbrunnen fountain in Aachen is a classicist building designed by the architects Johann Peter Cremer and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The construction was carried out by the Aachen private master builder Andreas Hansen. The building was named after the Prussian Crown Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (Elise), the daughter of the Bavarian King Maximilian I, wife of the later Prussian King Frederick William IV. Her bust was made of Carrara marble by Christian Friedrich Tieck in 1828 and placed in the rotunda in 1832.

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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.

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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.

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The Aachener Straßenbahn und Energieversorgungs-AG (ASEAG) operates local public transport in the Aachen City Region. Despite its name, it is now a pure bus company. In 2023, it transported approximately 64.209 million passengers on 118 lines in an area of 770 km². This makes it the largest German transport company that relies solely on buses. The length of the line network is 1981.6 km. The ASEAG network is integrated into the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV).

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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.

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The Congress Monument is an architectural monument commemorating the Monarchs' Congress in Aachen in 1818, which was erected in the years 1836 to 1844 according to designs by the state building inspector Johann Peter Cremer from 1822 and Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Cremer from 1837 at a historic site on Adalbertsteinweg, dismantled in 1914 and moved to the Aachen City Garden in 1928.

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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.

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Europaplatz in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, is a fake roundabout on the border between the Nordviertel and Ostviertel. Here the worm comes to the surface again.

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