The palsgrave of Lorraine, who had his seat at Aachen, was later esteemed the foremost in rank. |
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Under Charlemagne and his heirs, the royal court's principal seats were Aachen and Paris. |
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In addition, GAV received from the city of Aachen annual subsidies for measures connected with work motivation. |
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The Prize, awarded by the City of Aachen for laudable efforts to promote Europe, has very fittingly taken the name of the Emperor Charlemagne. |
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Such wonders made Aachen one of the great pilgrimage sites of medieval Europe. |
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Aachen is a historical town, a centre of science and learning, and a European city whose story can be seen as a history of Europe. |
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Charlemagne's great new palace at Aachen was built on classical Roman lines, embellished with sculptures and bronzes which would not have disgraced the Rome of the Caesars. |
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Since 1950 Aachen has bestowed a yearly Charlemagne prize on the figure deemed to have done most to promote European unity. |
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Their dream become reality thanks to a very generous donor from Aachen, who has yet donated four sewing machines all together! |
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The Prize will be awarded May 21, Ascension Day, in the Coronation hall of the town hall of Aachen during a solemn ceremony. |
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The largest of these covers 3.6 million people in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr Basin and Aachen coalfield. |
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Such is the brainchild of the team from the Fachhochschule Aachen in Germany and the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Rwanda. |
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The two of you were in Aachen when Wim was to receive the Charlemagne Prize. |
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In 1789, there was a constitutional crisis in the Aachen government, and in 1794 Aachen lost its status as a free imperial city. |
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Starting in 1838, the railway from Cologne to Belgium passed through Aachen. |
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In December 1880, the Aachen tramway network was opened, and in 1895 it was electrified. |
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Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies, and its residents welcomed the soldiers as liberators. |
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As before, the city hall is the seat of the mayor of Aachen and of the city council, and annually the Charlemagne Prize is awarded there. |
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This was a privately organised research initiative at the RWTH Aachen University which later became an independent company in Aachen. |
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A significant portion of foreign residents are students at the RWTH Aachen University. |
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By April 2016, the company announced that it would produce 2000 of its electric vans branded Work in Aachen by the end of the year. |
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Despite this, in August 978 Lothair attacked the old imperial capital Aachen. |
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After seizing Aachen and capturing Charlemagne's Palace at Nijmegen, he returned to France at the request of the German bishops. |
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He was buried that same day, in Aachen Cathedral, although the cold weather and the nature of his illness made such a hurried burial unnecessary. |
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Charlemagne's death emotionally affected many of his subjects, particularly those of the literary clique who had surrounded him at Aachen. |
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Alcuin, who ran the palace school and scriptorium at Aachen, was probably a chief influence. |
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The new minuscule was disseminated first from Aachen and later from the influential scriptorium at Tours, where Alcuin retired as an abbot. |
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Pepin's son Charlemagne requested a similar organ for his chapel in Aachen in 812, beginning its establishment in Western church music. |
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At the time, the Elisa Fountain served as a drinking hall and a promenading hall and still today it is possible to try the healing thermal waters of Aachen from this fountain. |
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Today, the latest generation of checkweighers from Sartorius Aachen is the standard EWK 3010 with a 60-kg B weighing system, equipped with a Sartorius weighbridge. |
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For 600 years, from 936 to 1531, Aachen Cathedral was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens. |
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One of Germany's leading institutes of higher education in technology, the RWTH Aachen University is located in the city. |
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Roman civil administration in Aachen broke down between the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th centuries. |
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In the year of his coronation as king of the Franks, 768, Charlemagne came to spend Christmas at Aachen for the first time. |
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Aachen became the focus of his court and the political centre of his empire. |
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During the reign of Otto II, the nobles revolted and the West Franks, under Lothair, raided Aachen in the ensuing confusion. |
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Aachen was attacked again by Odo of Champagne, who attacked the imperial palace while Conrad II was absent. |
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In 1956, after retiring as Prime Minister, Churchill went to Aachen to receive the Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European Unity. |
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This however marked the end of the period of manuscript production at Aachen. |
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Aachen has proved an important site for the production of historical manuscripts. |
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Under Charlemagne's purview, both the Ada Gospels and the Coronation Gospels may have been produced in Aachen. |
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From the early 16th century, Aachen started to lose its power and influence. |
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The decline of Aachen culminated in 1794, when the French, led by General Charles Dumouriez, occupied Aachen. |
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Charlemagne's remains were taken to a coal-mine for safekeeping. A pilgrim to Aachen, particularly the new incarnation of Charlemagne as a humble columnist, should not be too cynical. |
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Another significant project is the formation of a cardio-vascular centre, fruit of the close cooperation that exists between Aachen and Maastricht. |
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Over the next 500 years, most kings of Germany destined to reign over the Holy Roman Empire were crowned in Aachen. |
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After World War I, Aachen was occupied by the Allies until 1930, along with the rest of German territory west of the Rhine. |
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Along the major thrust fault of the Variscan orogeny, there are over 30 thermal springs in Aachen and Burtscheid. |
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Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 796 and was, on completion, in 798, the largest cathedral north of the Alps. |
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The Aachen tram system was linked with the Belgian national interurban tram system. |
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Aachen Cathedral Treasury has housed, throughout its history, a collection of liturgical objects. |
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The local speciality of Aachen is an originally hard type of sweet bread, baked in large flat loaves, called Aachener Printen. |
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The Euregiobahn, a regional railway system, reaches several minor cities in the Aachen region. |
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Aachen West has gained in importance with the expansion of RWTH Aachen University. |
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Charles also created a large palace at Aachen, a series of roads, and a canal. |
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Upon Charlemagne's death on 28 January 814 in Aachen, he was buried in his own Palace Chapel at Aachen. |
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The main mining areas were around Aachen, the Ruhr and Saar area, along with many smaller areas in other parts of Germany. |
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The commuter trains will be built in the Bombardier plant at Aachen, Germany, with the bogies manufactured at Bombardier in Siegen, Germany. |
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The palace chapel, constructed in 796, later became Aachen Cathedral. |
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In 2009, Aachen was ranked eighth among cities in Germany for innovation. |
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Aachen Cathedral has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
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To aid his recovery, Handel had travelled to Aachen, a spa in Germany. |
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The booty was sent to Charlemagne at his capital, Aachen, and redistributed to his followers and to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia. |
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German citizen Franz Oppenhoff accepted appointment as Mayor of the German city of Aachen in 1944, under authority of the Allied military command. |
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Godfred invaded Frisia, joked of visiting Aachen, but was murdered before he could do any more, either by a Frankish assassin or by one of his own men. |
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The thriving Aachen black metal scene is among the most notable in Germany, with such bands as Nagelfar, The Ruins of Beverast, Graupel and Verdunkeln. |
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In April 2016, StreetScooter GmbH announced that it would be scaling up to manufacture approximately 10,000 of the Work vehicles annually, starting in 2017, also in Aachen. |
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In May 2014, the company announced that the city of Aachen, the city council Aachen and the savings bank Aachen had ordered electric vehicles from the company. |
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Since 2009, the city hall has been a station on the Route Charlemagne, a tour programme by which historical sights of Aachen are presented to visitors. |
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Inside you can find five frescoes by the Aachen artist Alfred Rethel which show legendary scenes from the life of Charlemagne, as well as Charlemagne's signature. |
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Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north. |
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First the coronations of emperors were moved from Aachen to Frankfurt. |
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He then spent the autumn hunting before returning to Aachen on 1 November. |
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There are plans to eliminate traffic jams at the Aachen road interchange. |
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After losing the Battle of Fontenay, Lothar fled to his capital at Aachen and raised a new army, which was inferior to that of the younger brothers. |
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The city's numerous cold air corridors, which are slated to remain as free as possible from new construction, therefore play an important role in the urban climate of Aachen. |
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More recent sedimentation is mainly located in the north and east of Aachen and was formed through tertiary and quaternary river and wind activities. |
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The political reforms wrought in Aachen were to have an immense impact on the political definition of Western Europe for the rest of the Middle Ages. |
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