Aachen for Students and Tourists I Germany's Most Beautiful University Cities Pt.1

DW's Lukas Stege shows us around Aachen. With its ancient cathedral, cosy old town, lively pub scene and one of world's most renowned universities-Aachen is one of the hottest student cities in Germany. It has plenty to entertain tourists, too! Joined by two students, Lukas tours the city of Charlemagne and visits the famous RWTH, the University of Science and Technology.
00:00 Intro
00:32 Where is Aachen?
00:45 Aachen's history: Roman ruins and thermal springs
01:29 Emperor Charlemagne
01:52 How students find Aachen
03:00 Facts and figures about the RWTH Aachen
03:30 Main building of RWTH, meeting Indian student Priya Pal
07:08 Kármán-Tor
07:47 Aachen Cathedral
08:58 Roman columns
09:11 Town Hall
09:21 Aachener printen
09:35 Humboldt House, meeting Mexican student Yara Lintermanns
11:01 Pontstrasse Pub mile
11:54 Live concert: Burden to Atlas
CREDITS:
Report: Lukas Stege, Kerstin Schmidt
Camera: Holm Weber
Editing: Klaus Hellmig
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[@priya.pal3]

It was really fun to take you guys around my city! Thanks for featuring me. Great video. Love from Aachen ❤

[@DWTravel]

We thank you. You were a perfect tour guide. Best regards!

[@debrajbanerjee95]

You did give a good briefing & walk-through. We now have a clear idea on the Uni of Aachen.

[@jaiminpatel8739]

Fake Accent!

[@davideviggiani5051]

hi priya, I need your help. I'm planning to start my master degree at RWTH Aachen next year, and I need some help and advices for the application. Can I write you in private somewhere? Thanks in advance.

[@amitkan781]

Hi Priya, Need Guidelines for Admission in College... Thanks

[@stephenlewis2084]

I enjoyed a holiday there last Summer. I took the Eurostar from London to Brussels, then the train to Aachen. I enjoyed the historic buildings and the art museum. I took trips to Dusseldorf and the 3 countries point too.

[@burdentoatlas]

Awesome insight! Glad you enjoyed our homebase and thanks for attending the show!! ♡

[@minilroy8774]

I study here. Perfect University City. Not too big, not too small. An ideal European town. Close to cologne. The student semester ticket allow us to travel in the whole NRW state and to Some extends of Netherlands also.

[@paulbeaucuse2092]

To be honest, we went during study in Aachen always to either Maastricht or Cologne to go out. Aachen only to drink a beer or so.

[@leopardtiger1022]

​@@paulbeaucuse2092I used to go to Vaals and Maastricht...

[@bacharrommani3442]

hii does rwth aachen offeres English-Taught Engineering Programs

[@ericl6386]

@@bacharrommani3442 yes it offers most masters in english and even some bachelor degrees

[@devilking939]

I lived there for 9 years. So much memory. Really hope i can visit Aachen once again in my life.

[@jamesrobinson6382]

I especially enjoy your reviews of German cities. College towns and architecture make a good combination. Your presentation is the best as it feels I am there with you. I am from the USA but I have traveled to Germany several times. Great place to visit.

[@singham1708]

Wow... beautiful and lovely. Brings back memories of my visits to this place, when I used to come to our headquarters in Übach Palenberg.

[@rafillo01]

One of my top 5 cities in Germany. Such a lovely place.

[@kshitizkhanal5524]

3:07 I almost had heart attack. Imagine studying at this university as a foreign student and trying to say its name to your parents.

[@julian16180]

Well, it's most often called "RWTH Aachen", or if you are in Aachen just "TH" "Rheinisch Westfälisch Technische Hochschule" literally translates to "Rhine (a near river) Westfalia (the area of Germany Aachen is in) technical University", in case you wanted to know

[@vic9543]

@@julian16180 Aachen is located in the Rhineland, not Westphalia. Apart from that I agree, "RWTH" or "TH Aachen" is sufficient to identify the university.

[@shahidanusrat6086]

As a Pakistani I fully support love and respect Germany and its beautiful people from Pakistan 🙂. Best regards from Pakistan 🙂.

[@benlau4026]

I used to travel to Aachen for work regularly, our HQ is there! Lovely and old pub/restaurant!

[@a.g.4843]

Do you mean the hq from Brenk systemplanung? If yes: poor guy, that company sucks big time

[@wenceslarsleauxdegrance2319]

❤ Aachen for Part 1, super helpful info for student options and definitely super cool,dignified music festival! I wonder if Heidelberg will be featured in the next parts... 😁

[@DWTravel]

maybe ☺

[@wenceslarsleauxdegrance2319]

@@DWTravel 😁

[@schusterlehrling]

And at the town's boarder you can climb the highest mountain of the Netherlands and visit the three country point between Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, which used to be a four-country point, which is another story to explore...

[@samsonamarak]

Amazing.

[@linacomet]

Aachen is a lovely place, and it's nice to see Yara. We used to be in the same voluntary group. I lived there for almost 5 years and studied at the RWTH. Moreover, I crossed the Kármán-Tor and still graduated :D The Aachener Rathaus is still my favorite building in Germany.

[@abrahamk9]

Aachen reminds me a many college towns in the US.

[@dizzie9544]

thanks for sharing

[@DWTravel]

you're welcome!

[@erikaorellana1374]

Buen reportaje 😉

[@DWTravel]

gracias!

[@leopardtiger1022]

You should have included in your video Weihnachtsmarkt and few scenes inside the Aachener Dom cathedral.

[@adambeeable]

12:57 Looks like a scene out of 21 Jump Street. "How do you do, fellow students?" vibe right here.

[@DWTravel]

🤣 I felt that vibe, too. Believe me😆

[@bartoshd]

Like this city

[@erickgasuz5580]

Could you please make a similar video but in Bremen? I'd like to know about the student life there

[@erickgasuz5580]

@@geranienbaum Well I already did it but I would like to see a video about it on the DWs KZbin channel

[@CallMeCJorDandy]

9:24 of course this will be my first thing in my mind during the whole trip 🍪

[@DWTravel]

😝

[@atahankrgz6935]

My beautiful city,

[@RaseemAhmed]

Ich liebe Aachen 🥳❤

[@elephantcastle5110]

Students should check out Corps Montania 👌

[@user-gs3db8wp4j]

Someday i would like to go to aachen with my sons😊

[@platzhirsch4275]

Is this really an objective documentary. Aachen is not bad but the quality of living in Aachen definitely cant compare to just Maastricht, that is 30 min away.... Aachen had it's great days in the 80s and 90s. Maybe till about 2005. The last years Aachen is only a shodow of itself and the quality of living is sinking fast there

[@anders700]

Why?

[@dergianni]

Yeah Burden to Atlas! 🤘

[@burdentoatlas]

😘

[@satyamprabhakar6465]

❤

[@konverterkonverters5240]

So much about Aachen, but not the aseag mentioned? ;) I think the aseag is also important for students

[@ezzzuri]

Mi brother Is in the back of this part 12:09

[@user-iz1rh8th8t]

apoco chi tilin?

[@DWTravel]

Really??? Nice! 😀

[@DevarshRBhatt]

I am famous

[@jdjphotographynl]

2:35 Does she have an ankle band that prevents her from leaving the city or something...? 🙄 10:00 And how often will she have to explain to people she really isn't German? 😁

[@MrAkaacer]

Imagine what Aachen could be today . I guess it may not be affordable as a University town today if it wasn't destroyed during ww2.

[@arthurwanderstheworld]

It's because it's the closest to Belgium haha 😁

[@paulbeaucuse2092]

Borders both to Belgium (Wallonia) as The Netherlands (Limburg). But also in half an hour you are Flanders and a two-hours-drive in Holland.

[@yunusgurseljohannuzun457]

İŞ KANN NİCH LÜGEN

[@kadirhantnrvrd7386]

was für ein hübscher junger Mann mit toller Aussprache,yarrami ye gardas

[@flexrolex5180]

Lak welches Aachen war er??? Der soll erstmal Kaiserplatz kommen

[@JuniorJuni070]

bro forgot that my country is the best for students…

[@westfront14]

Nice bright sides! Now show the other side of Aachen. Second most criminal city in North-Rhine Westphalia. German upper class kids getting their apartments paid for by mom and dad having a vote on the cities mayor and destroying it with their voting behavior. Beautiful old buildings smeared, covered in paint, trash everywhere, chewing gum on almost every square centimeter of the street and sidewalks, the smell of urine once every 500 meters, destroyed roads, construction with no progress anywhere, the homeless and junkies from the center to the train station, the east side of the city, etc. Not to mention the ugly post-modern architecture in between those beautiful old buildings. Aachen was beautiful! When we still had the Tram. 100 years ago. Not anymore. Sadly.

[@AlonsoQuijanoP]

The approach of making is video is proof in itself why not to come to Germany. According to law, all individuals must give their consent to appear on this type of openly available videos, yet in the last section involving the metal concert, nobody was asked for consent to do close ups, and you notice they only do it to foreigners (I am one of them). This is done mainly because de-facto foreigners have a harder time enforcing their rights since the supervisory institutions of the country refuse to give support to those cases. Thats why abuse and racism against foreigners seems to be low in statistics, because it hardly gets recorded by autorities (and mind you here we are talking about institutional abuse from the goverment)

[@DWTravel]

We have no intention of disturbing or hurting anyone with our filming or through our videos. If you appear in one of our videos and do not wish to do so, please let us know. We can then see if we can remove the scene with you afterwards. We hope you continue to enjoy our content. Best regards!

[@AlonsoQuijanoP]

@@DWTravel I already made that request through KZbin platform months ago but to nobody's surprise you claimed no privacy protection was trespassed. So I really cannot buy your "good intentions" with this comment.

[@DWTravel]

@@AlonsoQuijanoP Please tell us the exact timecode of your close-up in the video. Then we can cut out the picture.

[@AlonsoQuijanoP]

@@DWTravel Simply delete scenes showing faces from the metal concert, because you didnt ask the participants for recording consent in this event at all, from this and all versions of this video in other languages (I know at least there is a spanish one). *Everybody* deserves their right to privacy to be respected, not only the people who caught DW trespassing their rights.

[@DWTravel]

@@AlonsoQuijanoP We can't ask everyone at a bigger event if he or she agrees. There would simply be something missing from the coverage if we couldn't show people's reactions at a concert. We won't remove all the close-ups. If you specifically request it, we will do so with yours, but we need to know which one it is. Best regards

[@DavidHernandez-wi8dz]

RWTH > TUM period. 😅

[@raxirex6443]

In your dreams hahah

[@Atom224]

Just don't go to Aachen Rothe Erde ☠☠

[@UndercoverDog]

Hahahaha

[@shunaras]

😂😂😂 only for young women obviously. GNTM coming soon to Aachen

[@DerToasti]

For the love of god DO NOT COME HERE massive sausage fest as well as just a very boring city with surprisingly mediocre student life! Also if you can't speak dutch and french it's very isolated as your only link with the rest of germany is an hour long train ride to cologne or düsseldorf. And getting to liège and maastricht also takes an hour even if you can speak all those languages! It's a pretty good uni, especially for engineering with lots of choices and specializations, but the disadvantages i mentioned make it a terrible city! Also, it's just really ugly with no nice river to chill. A student from maastricht told me unprompted to my face how ugly aachen is!

[@a.g.4843]

Aachen = lots of rain and very few (young) women. Glad to not live there anymore

[@TroneLp]

women tend to stay away from creeps, so maybe think about what you wrote again

[@Abstractor21]

There are less young women because RWTH is more for engineering, material science and CS students. And most of the City is filled by students. Also rain is beautiful.

[@DerToasti]

Very true! This needs to be mentioned every time aachen is brought up. It's just awful there. Though i think uni in general is highly overrated because it's not the fun time you're lead to believe.

[@Vedrajrm]

All of the students are there because they couldn’t get admission in berlin😂😂😂

[@DerToasti]

I overheard a med student in the bus saying that she only got accepted in aachen lmao

[@bali2633]

Seems like a mediocre place.