1816 To Prussia. The French Cantons of Burtscheid and Eschweiler are put together to form the Prussian Kreis Aachen.
1838 Foundation of the first joint stock company in the then Kingdom of Prussia: Eschweiler Bergwerksverein EBV.
1858 Prussian municipal rights. Its quarters Hehlrath, Kinzweiler and St. Jöris are released in order to form the new municipality of Kinzweiler.
1932 Hastenrath and Nothberg become a part of Eschweiler.
1944 Heavily destroyed in World War II, the last coal mine was flooded during the war and never been re-opened.
Part of the federal land of North Rhine-Westphalia.
1960s Complete modernization of Eschweiler's downtown and regulation of the Inde in order to prevent the regular inundations.
1972 Reorganization of administration in North Rhine-Westphalia: Eschweiler increases overnight from some 38,000 inhabitants to about 55,000 by receiving the villages Dürwiß, Laurenzberg, Lohn and Weisweiler. Kinzweiler, after 114 years, comes back.
1970s Eschweiler loses seven quarters because of the brown-coal opencast mining: Erberich, Hausen, Langendorf, Laurenzberg, Lohn, Lürken and Pützlohn.
Main sights
Eschweiler main sights include:
Artificial lake Blausteinsee
the Old Townhall
two pilgrim churches
main parish church of St. Peter und Paul with the Leather Pietà from 1360
the chapel
dwelling house of the former Cistercians nunnery of St. Jöris, skull relic in St. Jöris' church, baroque altar in Hehlrath's church
Old Mill of Gressenich.
Also present is a series of castle and manors:
Castle of Eschweiler
Castle of Kambach
Castle of Kinzweiler
Castle of Nothberg
Castle of Palant
Castle of Röthgen
Castle of Weisweiler
Manor of Broich
Manor of Drimborn
Manor of Nothberg
Culture
Eschweiler has three municipal halls, a cinema, a municipal art collection and the so-called Culture Centre Talbahnhof for cabaret and music events. Every summer the Eschweiler Music Festival EMF takes place. People go to the numerous pubs around the Market Place and in the old-town alley Schnellengasse as well as to the large-scale discothèque Klejbor's.
Carnival
Eschweiler is a center of Rhineland carnival. It has more than 20 active carnival clubs, and every Monday before Lent it has the third of Germany's longest carnival processions.
Rice pies, apricot pies, pear pies - 20 cm in diameter; the pear pies, also called black pies, are traditionally served at funerals
Horse and horse by-products
Medical care
Eschweiler is home to the St. Antonius Hospital with 443 beds and 13 departments. Every year, there are some 15,000 in-patients and 25,000 out-patients. The Euregio Breast Centre is part of the hospital.
Eschweiler isn't too remarkable with industries. Chemicals and goods are the main products, while it also has a lignite-powered power plant rated at 2.8 GW.
Science
The lignite deposits in the region are former Miocene swamp forest dominated by Castanopsis, a type of chinkapin. Such plants do not occur naturally in Europe. A type of fossil wood has been described from logs found in Eschweiler mines. It was named Castanoxylon eschweilerense in reference to the town; the name would translate as "Eschweiler chinkapin wood", as it probably belonged to Castanopsis but perhaps to some other genus of chinkapin.
Transport
Eschweiler has six railway stations: Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof, Eschweiler-Aue, Eschweiler-West, Eschweiler-Talbahnhof, Eschweiler-Nothberg, Eschweiler-Weisweiler and Nothberg. Eschweiler-St. Jöris is planned. Eschweiler has two bus terminals and bus lines in every quarter and in its whole vicinity. Autobahn exits on the A 4 include Eschweiler-West, Eschweiler-Ost and Weisweiler. The city can be reached also by three exits on the A 44: Aldenhoven, Alsdorf and Broichweiden.
