Aachen (definition of terms)

Aachen stands for:

geographical units:

• Aachen , a city in the Cologne administrative district of North Rhine-Westphalia
• City region Aachen , special purpose association of the city of Aachen and the former district of Aachen as well as its cities and municipalities belonging to the district
• Regio Aachen , the federal German part of the Euregio Rhine-Maas

formerly:

• Aachen district , from 1972 to 2009 district in the far west of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Aachen district , predecessor of Aachen district from 1816 to 1971
• Administrative district of Aachen , from 1816 to 1972 administrative district of the Prussian Rhine Province and North Rhine-Westphalia

Railway stations:

• Aachen Hauptbahnhof , the largest train station in Aachen
• Aachen-Rothe Erde station , passenger station in the east of Aachen
• Aachen West station , passenger and freight station in the west of Aachen
• Aachen Schanz stop , passenger train station in the western center of Aachen

formerly:

• Aachen freight yard , until 1986 freight yard in the south of Aachen
• Aachen North station , until 1980 terminus in northern Aachen

Others:

• Aachener Revier , the north-eastern part of the Limburg mining district in the border triangle of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
• the Aachen colliery in the municipality of Much in the Rhein-Sieg district
• Aachen (crater) , crater on the asteroid (253) Mathilde
• Aachen (meteorite) , common chondrite, found around 1880
• Aachen (typeface) , a serif antiqua typeface from ITC Linotype
• Aachen (ship, 1975) , passenger ship of the shipping company Rursee-Schifffahrt
• a cargo ship of the North German Lloyd, see Crefeld class
• Aachen Law (1971) , Law for the reorganization of the Aachen area from 1971
• Aachen Law (2008) , Law for the reorganization of the Aachen area from 2008

Aachen is the family name of the following people:

• Albert von Aachen , medieval German cleric
• Balthasar von Aachen , German stonemason
• Hans von Aachen (1552–1615), German painter
• JG Aachen , calligrapher working in Cologne
• Lienhard von Aachen († before 1500), German stonemason of the late Gothic
• Maria Johanna von Aachen (1755–1845), German author

See also:

• Ache (disambiguation)
• Achen (disambiguation)
• van Aken

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