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Drawing by Albrecht Dürer in 1520 Engraving by Matthäus Merian in 1647. Aachen Town Hall was built in the first half of the 14th century under the leadership of the mayor Gerhard Chorus (1285 – 1367). The new hall also hosted the traditional coronation feast that was part of the coronation ceremony of the Holy Roman Empire. Before that, the ...
English: City Hall in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Italiano: Municipio di Aquisgrana , Renania Settentrionale-Vestfalia , Germania Nederlands: Stadhuis in Aken , Noordrijn-Westfalen , Duitsland
The Constantine Basilica in Trier, Germany was probably used as a model for Aachen's Council Hall. The dimensions of the hall (1,000 m 2) were suitable to the reception of several hundreds of people at the same time: [20] although the building has been destroyed, it is known it was 47,42 metres long, 20,76 metres large and 21 metres high. [15]
This category is about buildings and the structures in the city of Aachen, ... Aachen Prison; Aachen Town Hall; Aachen-Rothe Erde station; B. Belvedere Water Tower;
It contains both the Aachen Cathedral and Aachen Rathaus, which are each near the city center, as well as Aachen's main theatre. Numerous squares, including Hansemannplatz, Kaiserplatz, and Lindenplatz are likewise contained within the district, as is the medieval Ponttor , which was one of the original gates in the wall surrounding the city.
location of Aachen in the Meuse (Dutch and German: Maas) river system (Wurm→ Rur→ Meuse→ North Sea)Aachen (/ ˈ ɑː k ən / ⓘ AH-kən, German: ⓘ; Aachen dialect: Oche; Dutch: Aken [ˈaːkə(n)] ⓘ; French: Aix-la-Chapelle; [a] Latin: Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.
in 1969, the statue was deposed on preservation grounds and replaced by the current copy. The original was exhibited in the town hall's Coronation Hall (Krönungssaal) until the creation of the Centre Charlemagne on the former Imperial palace ground or Katschhof , where it has been kept since 2014, the 1200th anniversary of Charlemagne's death.
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