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Aachen (), also known as ''Bad Aachen'' (Ripuarian: ''Óche'', Limburgish: ''Aoke'', French: ''Aix-la-Chapelle'', Dutch: ''Aken'', Latin: ''Aquisgranum'') is a spa and border town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a residence of Charlemagne, and later the coronation place for German kings.〔 Aachen is the westernmost city of Germany, on its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, west-southwest of Cologne in a former coal-mining area.〔 RWTH Aachen University is in the city.〔"RWTH" is the abbreviation of "Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule", which translates into "Rhine-Westphalian Technical University". The institution is commonly referred to as "RWTH Aachen" or simply "RWTH", with the abbreviation remaining untranslated in other languages to avoid the use of the "Hochschule" term, which is sometimes mistakenly translated as highschool. Sometimes, RWTH Aachen is also referred to as "TH Aachen" or "Aachen University". ''Note:'' The term "FH Aachen" does not refer to the RWTH but to the Fachhochschule Aachen, a university of applied sciences, which is also in Aachen.〕 Aachen's industries include science, engineering and information technology. In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation. == Name == The name ''Aachen'' is a modern descendant, like southern German ''Ach(e)'', ''Aach'' ‘river, stream’, of Old High German ''aha'' ‘water; stream’ which directly translates (and etymologically corresponds to) Latin ''Aquae'', referring to the springs. The location has been inhabited by humans since the Neolithic era, approximately 5,000 years ago, attracted to its warm mineral springs. Latin ''Aquae'' figures in Aachen’s Roman name ''Aquae granni'', which meant ‘Grannus’ waters’, referring to the Celtic god of healing who was worshiped at the springs.〔 This word became ''Åxhe'' in Walloon and ''Aix'' in French, and subsequently ''Aix-la-Chapelle'' after Charlemagne had a cathedral built there in the late 8th century and then made the city his empire’s capital. Aachen’s name in French and the loan translation in German evolved in parallel. The city is known by a variety of different names in other languages: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aachen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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