Herzogenrath

Herzogenrath is a middle vicinity-based town in the North Rhine Westphalian city vicinity of Aachen. It turned into created in 1972 from the merger of the city Herzogenrath with the groups Kohlscheid and Merkstein and forms with the Dutch Kerkrade the symbolic dual city Eurode. For centuries, mining has fashioned the metropolis. Herzogenrath is mentioned for the first time in 1104, as a fortress agreement of the Counts of Saffenberg Castrensis Viculus. Later, the citadel Rode is going to the Dukes of Limburg and is sooner or later documented in 1282 underneath the call’s Hertogenrode, analogous to the Duke Rodung.

The metropolis rights together with the Munzrecht received the region by way of King Rudolf of Habsburg inside the same year. In 1283, the Brabant navy advanced under Winnemar von Gijmenich against Herzogenrath. The siege was famine inside the population. During an inspection, the chief of the enemy military turned into killed by using a heroic act by means of an unknown Herzogenrath crossbowman. Due to the shock within the navy over the lack of the army commander, the knights withdrew. Even nowadays, the hero is celebrated because the Rector of Rode. Between 1730 and 1780, the band of Bockreiter in Herzogenrath and the encircling vicinity turned into active.