Eschweiler
District Court in Eschweiler
Coat of arms	Location
Coordinates	50°49′″N 6°17′″E / Expression error: Unexpected / operator, Expression error: Unexpected / operator
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Aachen
Town subdivisions	22 districts
Mayor	Rudi Bertram (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	76.559 km² (30 sq mi)
- Elevation	110 - 262 m
Population	55,646  (31/12/2006)
- Density	727 /km² (1,883 /sq mi)
Other information
Postal code	52249
Area code	02403
Licence plate code	AC
Website	www.eschweiler.de

Castle of Kambach

Castle of Roethgen

Eschweiler Central Station

The Leather Pietà

Castle of Palant

Castle of Kinzweiler

Old Townhall

Eschweiler's power plant next to the A 4

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History

• Celtics (first ore mining) and Romans (roads and villae rusticae).
• 828 First mentioned by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne.
• 1394 Coal mining first mentioned.
• For some centuries part of the Duchy of Jülich.
• 1678 Completely destroyed except one house and the valuable Leather Pietà.
• 1794 To France.
• 1800 French municipal rights and capital of the Canton of Eschweiler in the French Département de la Roer.
• 1816 To Prussia. The French Cantons of Burtscheid and Eschweiler are put together to form the Prussian Kreis Aachen.
• 1838 Foundation of the first joint stock company in the then Kingdom of Prussia: Eschweiler Bergwerksverein (i.e. Eschweiler Coal Mining Company) EBV.
• 1858 Prussian municipal rights. Its quarters Hehlrath, Kinzweiler and St. Jöris are released in order to form the new municipality of Kinzweiler.
• 1932 Hastenrath and Nothberg become a part of Eschweiler.
• 1944 Heavily destroyed in World War II, the last coal mine has been flooded during the war and never been reopend.
• Part of the federal land of Northrhine-Westfalia.
• 1960s Complete modernization of Eschweiler's downtown and regulation of the Inde in order to prevent the regular inundations.
• 1972 Reorganization of administration in Northrhine-Westfalia: Eschweiler increases overnight from some 38,000 inhabitants to about 55,000 by receiveing the villages Dürwiß, Laurenzberg, Lohn and Weisweiler. Kinzweiler, after 114 years, comes back.
• 1970s Eschweiler looses seven quarters because of the brown-coal opencast mining: Erberich, Hausen, Langendorf, Laurenzberg, Lohn, Lürken and Pützlohn.

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Culture

Eschweiler has three municipal halls (Dürwiß, Kinzweiler and Weisweiler), a cinema, a municipal art collection and the so-called Culture Centre Talbahnhof for cabaret and music events. Every summer the Eschweiler Music Festival EMF takes place. People go to the numerious pubs around the Market Place and in the old-town alley Schnellengasse as well as to the large-scale discotheque Klejbor's.

Carnival

Eschweiler is a center of Rhineland carnival. It has more than 20 active carnival clubs, and every Monday before Lent it has the third of Germany's longest carnival processions. Carnival or Carnivale is an annual Christian festival season. ... Carnival or Carnivale is an annual Christian festival season. ...

Culinary specialities

• Sauerbraten
• Potato fritters (Reibekuchen) with black bread, apple syrup, sugar beet syrup or stewed apples
• Blood sausage (Blutwurst) crude or fried
• Hemmel on Äed (i.e. Heaven and Earth) mashed potatoes with stewed apples and fried blood pudding
• Rice pies, apricot pies, pear pies ("Schwatze Flaam") - 20 cm in diameter; the pear pies, also called black pies, are traditionally served at funerals

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Twin towns

• Wattrelos, France, since 1975
• Reigate and Banstead, United Kingdom, since 1985

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Medical care

In Eschweiler, there is the St. Antonius Hospital with 443 beds and 13 departements. Every year, there are some 15.000 in-patients and 25.000 out-patients. The Euregio Breast Centre is part of the hospital.

Sports

Soccer, ice hockey, golf, open-air swimming pool, indoor swimming pool, horse sports.

Notable places

Artificial lake Blausteinsee (i.e. Blue Stone Lake), the Old Townhall (which is now the restaurant and conference wing of the Best Western 4 star hotel Hotel de Ville), two pilgrim churches, main parish church St. Peter und Paul with the Leather Pietà from 1360, the chapel and a dwelling house of the former Cistercians nunnery of St. Jöris, skull relic in St. Jöris' church, baroque altar in Hehlrath's church, the Old Mill of Gressenich and many castles and manors: Cistercians coat of arms The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin: ), otherwise White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which a black scapular or apron is sometimes worn) is a Roman Catholic order of enclosed monks. ...

• Castle of Eschweiler (only three towers from the 13th century are left)
• Castle of Kambach (beautiful water castle besides the golf course)
• Castle of Kinzweiler
• Castle of Nothberg
• Castle of Palant
• Castle of Röthgen
• Castle of Weisweiler (only the towers and the outer walls are left)
• Manor of Broich
• Manor of Drimborn
• Manor of Nothberg

A water castle is a castle, whose outside walls are generally surrounded by water ditches called moats, which originally served the defense. ...

Industry

Chemical and metall industries, logistics and a brown-coal power plant.

Traffic

• Eschweiler has six railway stations: Eschweiler Hbf (central station), Eschweiler-Aue (from 2009), Eschweiler-West, Eschweiler-Talbahnhof, Eschweiler-Nothberg, Eschweiler-Weisweiler and Nothberg (till 2009). Eschweiler-St. Jöris is planned.
• Eschweiler has two bus terminals and bus lines in every quarter and in its whole vicinty.
• Eschweiler has three autobahn exits on the A 4: Eschweiler-West, Eschweiler-Ost and Weisweiler. It can be reached also by three exits on the A 44: Aldenhoven, Alsdorf and Broichweiden.

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Notable Persons

• Götz Briefs
• Gerhard Fieseler
• Wilhelm Lexis
• Franz Reuleaux
• Michaela Schaffrath
• August Thyssen

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External links

• Official site (German)

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