AACHEN

Aachen has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the People, Dates, Places and Events category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

Aachen is one of the most important place in whole history of european integration and will probably have influence on the future of United europe, because it has been the capital and crowning seat of the Carolingian Empire and successively for all the emperors until Ferdinand I of the Habsburg dinasty in XVI century A.D., still nowadays visited as UNESCO Wordl Heritage Site since 1978 A.D..

Where is Aachen? The modern Aachen is a medium town in Germany on the border with Belgium and Netherlands, within the North-Rhine-Westphalia lander placed on a tributary of the Meuse river, called Aix-la-Chapelle in French and Aquisgrana in Italian languages. The Aachen university is quoted, as Polytechnich known internationally with the akronym "RWTH": the first settlement seem to have been a colony of Romans, followed by a Franks "ripuarians" centre included in the Austrasia regna, became important under the Carolingian dinasty in VIII century A.D.. What's the historic name of Aachen? At that epoch it became an aeternitas known with the latin name "Aquae Granni", probably because it was a thermal spring or a celtic religious centre for wealthness.

When Charlemagne was crowned imperator christianorum in 800 A.D. decided to settle in Aachen his governement palace situated into a family fief, together with first Cathedral Schola ruled by monks into the Palatine Chapel, where to spread the imperial culture (le couture) by recovering a mixed of Sacer Scriptures (Sapientia Evangelii), Greeks philosopy (Sapientia Secularii), ancient Roman Empire right (Ius Publicum), Patristica studies and writes (Christianity exegesis) and classic latin texts (Romanitas Civitas) that had been conserved/reproduced in the ancient monastirs after 476 A.D.!

After the division of the empire with the Verdun treaty, Aachen was included in the Lotharingia Kingdom then into the Low Lothingen duchy later entered into the Brabant Langraviade within the Reich Empire: when in 911 A.D. the german great feudal lords joined into the Regna Germanorum, they mantained Aachen as seat for crowning their Rex christianorum elected from the german princes council with the Reichkhrone shaped by the emperor Otto I "the great" on the originary stone throne of Salomon (a praxis confirmed even by the "Golden Bull" that reformed the Sacer Roman Imperium in 1356 A.D.).

Aachen became a symbolic and legendary place of the history of european integration when the emperor Otto III discovered and open the tumb of Charlemagne at the end of X century A.D., whose body was intact while the emperor was wearing the golden globe and the Destiny's sword: at that point the Roman catholic church decided to sanctify Charlemagne, while time after the emperor Frederick I ordered to bury the frankish king into a golden urne still visible nowadays. They found also a book called "Evangelario" containing many important images for christian regal theology used for centuries by all the royal european genealogies. The old imperial palace was also the HQ of the Paladines knights of Charlemagne, became Count Palatian's of the Empire, famous for the narrowing in the carologian cycle and the "chanson de geste". The last moment of fame for Aachen has been the peace treaty in 1748 A.D. that signed the end of the "austrian succession war", that sanctioned with the general agreement of all the european genealogies the passage of the S.R.I./Reich crown to the Habsburg-Lothingen dinasty, who ruled the Christian Empire until the firstworldwar.

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