Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Aachen, Germany

The Church of St. Jakob is a church in Aachen, Germany. It is subordinate to the patronage of the Apostle James the Elder and is located near the city centre. As the Church of St. James, it is the first stop on the Way of St. James from Aachen Cathedral to Santiago de Compostela.

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Emil Lochner was an Aachen cloth manufacturer and contributed significantly to the cityscape of Aachen. Lochnerstrasse in Aachen is named after his father.

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The Klosterrather Hof, also known as the Klosterrather Refugium or Kirchrather Hof, was a former monastery courtyard and later residential and manufacturing complex in Eilfschornsteinstraße in Aachen, Germany.

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Haus Zum Horn is a listed residential building in Aachen, Germany. It takes its name from Wilhelm VII van Horn, the owner of the previous building and patron of the neighbouring Dominican monastery in Aachen. He was married to Johanna von Moers and they had a son, Jakob I, who donated a memorial plaque on his father's gravestone in the Dominican church of St. Paul and later converted to the Franciscans.

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The building known as the Grashaus at the fish market in Aachen is not only one of the oldest houses in the city, but also of historical significance as the first Aachen town hall. It was completed in 1267, but probably stands on even older foundations from possibly Carolingian times. The grass house owes its name to the grass, a medieval village green on which executions as well as folk festivals and supposedly also the funerals of the executed took place.

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The doll's fountain is located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, on Krämerstraße, the connection between the cathedral and the town hall. It was donated by the Aachener Bank and created in 1975 by the Aachen sculptor Bonifatius Stirnberg.

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Red Castle is the name of a historic residential building in Aachen. It is located on Büchel and is listed as a monument to the monument list of the city of Aachen.

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The Büchelpalais is a residential and commercial building in Aachen, Germany. It was built in 1889 in the Neo-Renaissance style and is located on the Büchel on the corner of Rethelstraße. The building is registered as an architectural monument in the list of architectural monuments in Aachen.

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Chicken Thief is a fountain monument by the Berlin sculptor Hermann Joachim Pagels, which was unveiled at Christmas 1913 at the Aachen Chicken Market. It consists of a bronze figure of a chicken thief, which was mounted on a fountain bowl made of shell limestone. The figure depicts the moment when the thief is astonished to discover that instead of the chicken, he has stolen a rooster that crows and thus betrays him. However, the scene embodied in the character has no historical precedent.

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Aachen Town Hall is a landmark of cultural significance located in the Altstadt of Aachen, Germany. It was built in the Gothic style in the first half of the 14th century.

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The Great House of Aachen is probably the oldest surviving residential building in the city of Aachen. Its significance as an architectural monument lies in the fact that it survived the Aachen city fire of 1656 largely undamaged. The building now houses the International Newspaper Museum.

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The Theresienkirche is a Catholic church in Aachen, Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the city centre and borders on the building areas of the RWTH Aachen University. It is owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as a special property.

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The Hotmannspief, also known as the Hotmannspiif, is a fountain monument at a historic fountain site in Aachen, Germany, which was erected in 1825 according to designs by city architect Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel in the form of an obelisk and decorated with figures in 1830.

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The Kugelbrunnen is a fountain created in 1977 by Albert Sous in Aachen, Germany.

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Grenzlandtheater Aachen is a theater in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany founded by actor Kurt Sieder (1899–1964) in 1950.

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The Elisengarten is a small park in the city center of Aachen at the back of the Elisenbrunnen. The Elisengarten was laid out between 1852 and 1854 according to plans by the Prussian horticulturist Peter Joseph Lenné.

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The Elisenbrunnen fountain in Aachen is a neoclassical building designed by the architects Johann Peter Cremer and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The construction was carried out by the Aachen private master builder Andreas Hansen. The building was named after the Prussian Crown Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (Elise), the daughter of the Bavarian King Maximilian I, wife of the later Prussian King Frederick William IV. Her bust was made of Carrara marble by Christian Friedrich Tieck in 1828 and placed in the rotunda in 1832.

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The Elisabethhalle is a municipal indoor swimming pool in Aachen, Elisabethstraße 10, not far from Aachen Cathedral. It was built from 1908 to 1911 in Art Nouveau style for a total of 900,000 marks and opened on 17 July 1911. It was designed by the Aachen city architect Joseph Laurent. The Elisabethhalle is one of the few surviving swimming pools from the Art Nouveau era that is still in operation today.

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The Alexian Monastery Aachen is the motherhouse of the religious community of the Alexian Brothers on the Alexianergraben in Aachen, whose first documentary mention dates back to the year 1391. Today's building complex consists of the convent building (Clemensbau) with the St. Alexius Church and the rear wings of the adjoining Alexian Hospital (Quirinus Building). The Clemens Building with the church was rebuilt in 1929 according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Wilhelm Pauen (1865–1949) and placed under monument protection in 1980.

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