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Aix-la-Chapelle is a big town with European heartbeat, located in the west of Germany at the border of the kingdom of the Netherlands and the kingdom of Belgium. The city has not only an enormous historical background where more than 30 -German kings were crowned, the famous International Karlpreis is awarded and 1800 years before roman legionnaires were bathing, but also where by a rich culture the Official International Riders Championship for Germany, the largest Technical University, world famous companies and large industrial areas are situated. For somebody standing on the Lousberg, the Salvatorberg or the Lange Turm, looking down on Aix-la-Chapelle the city is presented in a regular pit. If he looks more carefully he will see many small irregularities in this pit. He will also not fail to see that a slight hill reaches from the west of the city to the centre, and from the market place, his last foothill lowers slightly into a valley, in the northern direction with Trichtergasse, Judengasse, Kockerellstrasse and Mostardstrasse, to the east with the Grosskölnstrasse, to the south with Krämerstrasse and Büchel. This market hill, surrounded by the Johannisbach in the north and the Pau in the South is the core of old Aix-la-Chapelle.
In the year of 751 the frankian kingdom of the Merovingian was transferred to the Carolingian Hausmeiergeschlecht. Aix-la-Chapelle first steps into the light of history in the year 765, when king Pippin celebrated Christmas here, and in the following year when he celebrated Eastern. King Pippin suffered from dropsy, that’s why he visited regularly the curing baths at Aix-la-Chapelle. In fact Aix-la-Chapelle had become a frankian court, a villa.
After the death of Pippin, the kingdom was divided between his sons Karlmann (the older) and Karl. Karl obtained the northern part to which also Aix-la- Chapelle belonged.
In the year of 768 the court was raised to a Pfalz. The first document that identifies Aix-la-Chapelle as a Pfalz goes back to the year 769.
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