Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Aachen, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 3.1 km
Ascend 108 m
Descend 55 m

Explore Aachen in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Aachen

Sight 1: Welsche Mühle

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Welsche Mühle Käthe u. Bernd Limburg, www.limburg-bernd.de / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

The Welsche Mühle is a mill in Aachen with an overshot water wheel. It is located in the district of Haaren and is fed by the water of the Haarbach. It is the only operational mill in the Aachen region.

Wikipedia: Welsche Mühle (DE)

1395 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 2: Friedenskapelle

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The Friedenskapelle is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in Haaren, today a district of Aachen. It is located on the Haarberg and belongs to the Catholic parish of Aachen Nord, Christ our Brother. It has been a listed building since 2009.

Wikipedia: Friedenskapelle (Aachen) (DE)

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Haarberg

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With a height of 239.3 metres, the Haarberg is the highest elevation in the Aachen district of Haaren and belongs to the local recreation area of Haaren and Verlautenheide. At the highest point, a large cross, visible from afar, is erected, the Haaren Cross. In 1969, a chapel was built not far from the cross according to the plans of the Haaren architect Paul Stollmann, the Catholic Chapel of Peace. As part of the "Haarberg Ecology Project", the landscape around the Haarberg was carefully redesigned from 2004 to 2009. Path connections have been expanded and orchards and additional biotope areas have been created.

Wikipedia: Haarberg (Aachen) (DE)

1274 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 4: Sankt Hubertus

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Sankt Hubertus A. Savin / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Hubert is located in the Aachen district of Lautenheide in the Haaren district and belongs to the parish of Christ our brother. Today's church building goes back to 1954. The church is consecrated in honor of St. Hubertus von Liège.

Wikipedia: St. Hubert (Verlautenheide) (DE)

264 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Landgraben

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Landgraben

The Aachen Landgraben is the name given to the fortifications along the almost 70 km long border of the former Aachen Empire. Individual sections can be documented as early as the 14th and 15th centuries, but it was not until the beginning of the 17th century that the construction of the Landwehr was completed and on 11 April 1611 Albrecht VII von Habsburg, the acting regent of the Spanish Netherlands in Brussels, contractually legitimized it with the aldermen and the city council in Aachen.

Wikipedia: Aachener Landgraben (DE)

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