Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #10 in Aachen, Germany

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.

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The Welsche Mühle is a mill in Aachen, Germany. It is located in the district of Haaren and is fed by the water of the Haarbach. It is the only operational mill in the Aachen region.

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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.

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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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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).

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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 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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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The Catholic German Student Fraternity Franconia zu Aachen im CV is a Catholic, German, color-bearing student fraternity at RWTH Aachen University, which provided the cathedral guard of Aachen Cathedral. She belongs to the Cartellverband (CV).

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The convent of the Discalced Carmelite Sisters (OCD) in Aachen has existed since 1662 and has been dissolved several times and rebuilt in various places in the city.

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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.

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