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The paper supplies news from around the world, but with a focus on the region, its politics, economy, culture, sports and weather, for readers in Aachen, Eschweiler, Geilenkirchen and Jülich. [1] Bernd Mathieu is the current editor-in-chief, of the Aachener Zeitung from 1995 and of the Aachener Nachrichten from 2003.
The number of national daily newspapers in Germany was 598 in 1950, whereas it was 375 in 1965. [1] Below is a list of newspapers in Germany, sorted according to printed run as of 2015, as listed at ivw.de which tracks circulations of all publications in Germany.
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.
The newspaper has local sections for Cologne, Düsseldorf and Bonn. It is also available in the surrounding region (Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg) without local section. The first edition of Express was published on 29 February 1964. The newspaper had a circulation of 132,836 in the fourth quarter of 2015. [1] It received several media awards.
The district of Aachen (German: Städteregion Aachen) is a district in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Heinsberg , Düren , Euskirchen , and also the Netherlands province of Limburg and the Belgian province of Liège .
The annual Charlemagne Prize is awarded in the City Hall of Aachen. Besides serving administrative purposes over the centuries, today’s Aachen City Hall also houses two museums. The first is the International Newspaper Museum which boasts a collection of over 200,000 newspapers from around the world in various languages.
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.
1841 – Cologne-Aachen railway begins operating. 1846 – Lower Rhenish Music Festival held, directed by Felix Mendelssohn; performers include Jenny Lind. Mid-19th century panorama of the city. 1849 – Reuters news agency in business. [11] 1853 – Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway begins operating.