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Aue (Eschweiler)

Eschweiler
Indestraße in Eschweiler
Indestraße in Eschweiler
Coat of arms of Eschweiler
Coat of arms
Eschweiler  is located in Germany
Eschweiler
Eschweiler
Coordinates: 50°49′N 6°17′E / 50.817°N 6.283°E / 50.817; 6.283Coordinates: 50°49′N 6°17′E / 50.817°N 6.283°E / 50.817; 6.283
Country Germany
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region Cologne
District Aachen
Government
 • Mayor Rudi Bertram (SPD)
Area
 • Total 76.559 km2 (29.560 sq mi)
Elevation 110 - 262 m (−750 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 55,909
 • Density 730/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 52249
Dialling codes 02403
Vehicle registration AC, MON
Website www.eschweiler.de

Eschweiler (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʃvaɪlɐ]) is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch frontier, and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Aachen and 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Cologne.

Eschweiler main sights include:

Also present is a series of castle and manors:

Eschweiler has three municipal halls (Dürwiß, Kinzweiler and Weisweiler), a cinema, a municipal art collection and the so-called Culture Centre Talbahnhof for cabaret and music events. Every summer the Eschweiler Music Festival EMF takes place. People go to the numerous pubs around the Market Place and in the old-town alley Schnellengasse as well as to the large-scale discothèque Klejbor's.

Eschweiler is a center of Rhineland carnival. It has more than 20 active carnival clubs, and every Monday before Lent it has the third of Germany's longest carnival processions.

Eschweiler is home to the St. Antonius Hospital with 443 beds and 13 departments. Every year, there are some 15,000 in-patients and 25,000 out-patients. The Euregio Breast Centre is part of the hospital.

Soccer, ice hockey, golf, open-air swimming pool, indoor swimming pool, horse sports, handball.

Chemical and metal industries, logistics and a lignite power plant.

The lignite (brown coal) deposits in the region are former Miocene swamp forest dominated by Castanopsis, a type of chinkapin. Such plants do not occur naturally in Europe. A type of fossil wood has been described from logs found in Eschweiler mines. It was named Castanoxylon eschweilerense in reference to the town; the name would translate as "Eschweiler chinkapin wood", as it probably belonged to Castanopsis but perhaps to some other genus of chinkapin.

Eschweiler has six railway stations: Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof (central station), Eschweiler-Aue (from 2009), Eschweiler-West, Eschweiler-Talbahnhof, Eschweiler-Nothberg, Eschweiler-Weisweiler and Nothberg (till 2009). Eschweiler-St. Jöris is planned.


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