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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A4dteregion_Aachen" title="Städteregion Aachen – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Städteregion Aachen" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urba_regiono_Aachen" title="Urba regiono Aachen – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Urba regiono Aachen" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%AE%D9%86_(%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AD%DB%8C%D9%87)" title="آخن (ناحیه) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آخن (ناحیه)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" 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scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regierungsbezirk" title="Regierungsbezirk">Adm. region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cologne_(region)" title="Cologne (region)">Cologne</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • District admin.</th><td class="infobox-data">Tim Grüttemeier (<a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">CDU</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">707.15 km<sup>2</sup> (273.03 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(31 December 2023)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">564,444</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">800/km<sup>2</sup> (2,100/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+01:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+02:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time">CEST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plate" title="Vehicle registration plate">Vehicle registration</a></th><td class="infobox-data">AC, MON</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.staedteregion-aachen.de">www.staedteregion-aachen.de</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The district of <b>Aachen</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Städteregion Aachen</i>) is a district in the west of <a href="/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. Neighboring districts are <a href="/wiki/Heinsberg_(district)" title="Heinsberg (district)">Heinsberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/D%C3%BCren_(district)" title="Düren (district)">Düren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Euskirchen_(district)" title="Euskirchen (district)">Euskirchen</a>, and also the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> province of <a href="/wiki/Limburg_(Netherlands)" title="Limburg (Netherlands)">Limburg</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> province of <a href="/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge_(province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liège (province)">Liège</a>. Its administrative body is the <i>Städteregionsparlament</i> ("regional parliament"), headed by the <i>Städteregionspräsident</i> or "region president" (Tim Grüttemeier (<a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">CDU</a>) since 2019). </p><p>As of 21 October 2009, the <i>Städteregion Aachen</i> (literally: "cities region" Aachen) was formed from the former district Aachen (<i>Kreis Aachen</i>) and the city of Aachen. This is the first <i>Städteregion</i> that was formed in North Rhine-Westphalia. Its status is similar to that of the <a href="/wiki/Hanover_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanover (district)">district Hanover</a> (<i>Region Hannover</i>) in Lower Saxony, in that the powers of the city of Aachen are slightly less than those of a <a href="/wiki/Independent_city#Germany" title="Independent city">district-free city</a> (<i>Kreisfreie Stadt</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aachen_(district)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HausKambach01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/HausKambach01.jpg/220px-HausKambach01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/HausKambach01.jpg/330px-HausKambach01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/HausKambach01.jpg/440px-HausKambach01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="883" /></a><figcaption>Castle of Kambach at Eschweiler</figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>Landkreis Aachen</i> was formed in 1816 from the two <a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_France" title="Cantons of France">French cantons</a> Burtscheid and <a href="/wiki/Eschweiler" title="Eschweiler">Eschweiler</a>, with its capital set to the city of <a href="/wiki/Burtscheid" title="Burtscheid">Burtscheid</a>. In 1897 Burtscheid was incorporated into the city of <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a>, but the administrative seat stayed there, even though the capital was no longer part of the district. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kreis_Aachen_(1972)"><span id="Kreis_Aachen_.281972.29"></span>Kreis Aachen (1972)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aachen_(district)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Kreis Aachen (1972)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Aachen district was re-formed in 1972, and part of it was incorporated to the district-free city of <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a>. At that point in time, the policy that no independent large city in <a href="/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a> should be the seat of its district was not yet in effect. In the larger independent cities of Bielefeld (1973) and Münster (1975), the districts named after them were consistently dissolved and several of their communities were incorporated into the respective large city. In the case of Aachen, however, no further municipal reform was carried out and the separation of city and district remained. </p><p>In 1975 this district of Aachen was merged with the district of <a href="/wiki/Monschau" title="Monschau">Monschau</a>, and parts of the districts of <a href="/wiki/D%C3%BCren_(district)" title="Düren (district)">Düren</a>, <a href="/wiki/J%C3%BClich" title="Jülich">Jülich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schleiden" title="Schleiden">Schleiden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Selfkant" title="Selfkant">Selfkant</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Städteregion_Aachen_(2009)"><span id="St.C3.A4dteregion_Aachen_.282009.29"></span>Städteregion Aachen (2009)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aachen_(district)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Städteregion Aachen (2009)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2004, a special-purpose association was formed including the city of Aachen, the district of Aachen, and the nine municipalities belonging to the district.  Its regular meetings consisted of 60 representatives of the association members with voting rights, and focused on expanding cooperation between the members, road traffic management, school administration, and economic development. This was a predecessor to the 2009 <i>Städteregion</i>. </p><p>In 2009, the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament reorganized the district to include the city of Aachen, modeled after the district of Hanover. The existing Aachen district was dissolved and the new <i>Städteregion Aachen</i> took over tasks such as traffic planning and emergency services from the cities within it.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aachen_(district)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aachen_aerial_view_10-2017_img2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Aachen_aerial_view_10-2017_img2.jpg/250px-Aachen_aerial_view_10-2017_img2.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Aachen_aerial_view_10-2017_img2.jpg/375px-Aachen_aerial_view_10-2017_img2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Aachen_aerial_view_10-2017_img2.jpg/500px-Aachen_aerial_view_10-2017_img2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5824" data-file-height="2912" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of Aachen</figcaption></figure> <p>Geographically the district covers a part of the <a href="/wiki/Eifel" title="Eifel">Eifel</a> mountains in the south, but also the lowlands of the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Rhine_Bay" title="Lower Rhine Bay">Lower Rhine Bay</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coat_of_arms">Coat of arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aachen_(district)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Coat of arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The top of the coat of arms shows the black lion, the sign of Jülich, as the district contains mostly former parts of the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_J%C3%BClich" title="Duchy of Jülich">duchy of Jülich</a>. In the bottom the swan on a deer antler is the sign of the city of Burtscheid, which was the capital of the <i>Landkreis Aachen</i> until 1897, when it was incorporated into the city of Aachen. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Towns_and_municipalities">Towns and municipalities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aachen_(district)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Towns and municipalities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="noresize" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Municipalities_in_AC_%282009%29.svg/300px-Municipalities_in_AC_%282009%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="408" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Municipalities_in_AC_%282009%29.svg/450px-Municipalities_in_AC_%282009%29.svg.png 1.5x, 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