Eschweiler

Eschweiler is a Rhineland town in western Germany on the river Inde near the German-Belgian-Dutch frontier. 60,000 enhabitants. See Aachen (district)

History

• 828 First mentioned.
• 1394 Coal mining first mentioned.
• 1678 Completely destroyed exept one house and a leather pietà.
• 1800 French municipal rights.
• 1838 Foundation of the first joint stock company in the then Kingdom of Prussia: Eschweiler Bergwerksverein (i.e. Eschweiler Coal Mining Company) EBV.
• 1858 Prussian minicipal rights.
• 1944 Heavily destroyed in World War II.

Worth knowing

Many castles, water castles and manors. Artificial lake Blausteinsee (i.e. Blue Stone Lake). A center of Rhineland carnival. Sports: soccer, ice hockey, golf, swimming, horse sports.

Culinary specialities

• Sauerbraten
• Potato fritters (Reibekuchen) with black bread, appel syrup, suger beet syrup or stewed apples
• Blood sausage (Blutwurst) crude or fried
• Hemmel on Äed (i.e. Heaven and Earth) mashed potatoes with stewed apples and fried blood pudding
• Rice pies, apricot pies, pear pies ("Schwatze Flaam") – 20 cm in diameter; the pear pies, also called black pies, are traditionally served at funerals