Aachen
Council site · Imperial capital
city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Location: 50.7762, 6.0838
What this place is
- Imperial capital — Charlemagne's chosen residence from 794 and the palace where he died in 814; his successors were crowned here long after
Who is recorded here
- Charlemagne death · AD 814
What happened here
- Council of Aachen (809) AD 809
In art
About the place
Aachen is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. It is the western-most major city in Germany, lying approximately 61 km (38 mi) west of Cologne and Bonn, directly bordering Belgium in the southwest, and the Netherlands in the northwest.
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