Seffent

Seffent City of Aachen
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 2 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	approx. 180 m
Residents :	200
Postal code :	52074
Area code :	0241

Seffent is a small town with 200 inhabitants in the western Aachen district of Laurensberg .

The name is derived from the Latin Septem Fontes , the "Seven Sources ", known today as " Seven Sources ". The springs arise from an enclosed spring pot and are the strongest springs within a 70 km radius. They feed the torrent that flows through the whole of Laurensberg and finally flows into the Wurm . Between 1929 and 1977 water from the “Seven Springs” was pumped by means of two centrifugal pumps to an elevated tank on the Wachtelkopf, part of the Schneeberg , with which Vaals and a large part of the local textile companies could be supplied.

Not far from the springs is the historic Seffent Castle , which today houses a modern residential complex and a restaurant.

It is documented that the Lorraine King Zwentibold handed over the Carolingian mansions Seffent and Schurzelt, side courtyards of the Aachen Palatinate, to his relative, the abbess Gisela von Nivelles , daughter of King Lothar II of Lorraine, in 896 . After Gisela's death, the court fell back into imperial ownership and was later one of the allodial creations in the Aachen empire , that is, the property of the Aachen city nobility.

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  Seffent Castle

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  Gut Schüllshof, former Seffent smithy

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  Althöfchen and Neuhöfchen

Web links

Commons : Seffent  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Seffent - one of the smallest districts of Aachen with a great history , In: online contributions of the Aachener Geschichtsverein , a text written in 1996 on the occasion of the 1,100th anniversary