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 state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

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 betwee ...

. It is located approximately 5 km south-west of

Jülich Jülich (; in old spellings also known as ''Guelich'' or ''Gülich'', nl, Gulik, french: Juliers, Ripuarian: ''Jöllesch'') is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. As a border region betw ...

, 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 (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 (born 1992), German footballer

Twin Town

Aldenhoven is twinned with the French town of Albert.

References

Düren (district) {{Düren-geo-stub