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Location of the town of Eschweiler within Aachen district
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| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Cologne |
| District | Aachen |
| Town subdivisions | 22 |
| Mayor | Rudi Bertram (SPD) |
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| Area | 76.559 km2 (29.560 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 110 - 262 m |
| Population | 55,505 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 725 /km2 (1,878 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | AC |
| Postal code | 52249 |
| Area code | 02403 |
| 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 km east of Aachen and 50 km west of Cologne.
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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.
Chemical and metall industries, logistics and a brown-coal 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 today. 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.
Eschweiler has two bus terminals and bus lines in every quarter and in its whole vicinity. Autobahn exits on the A 4 include Eschweiler-West, Eschweiler-Ost and Weisweiler. The city can be reached also by three exits on the A 44: Aldenhoven, Alsdorf and Broichweiden.
Eschweiler is twinned with:
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