Aldenhoven () is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is located approximately 5 km south-west of Jülich, 5 km north of

Eschweiler Eschweiler (, Ripuarian: ) is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch border, and about east of Aachen and west of Cologne. History * Celts (fi ...

and 20 km north-east of

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

Gallery

Image:St. Martin (Aldenhoven) 02.jpg, Aldenhoven, church File:Aldenhoven, Gnadenkapelle.jpg, Aldenhoven, chapel

Notable people

Heinrich von der Mark Heinrich von der Mark (14 December 1782 – 14 June 1865) was a Bavarian Lieutenant General and Acting War Minister from 1 February to 5 April 1848. Biography Mark was born in Aldenhoven and died in Bamberg. He took part in the campaigns of the ...

(1784-1865), Bavarian lieutenant-general and minister of war * Edmund Emundts (1790-1871) Lord Mayor of Aachen * Jürgen Fliege (born 1947), television pastor, in the 1980s evangelical pastor in Aldenhoven *

Reinhold Yabo Reinhold Yabo (born 10 February 1992) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Yabo began his career with Teutonia Niedermerz and joined 2001 into the youth of 1. FC Köln. He was to begin of the 2009–10 ...

(born 1992), German footballer

Twin Town

Aldenhoven is twinned with the French town of

Albert Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Alber ...

References

Düren (district) {{Düren-geo-stub