Baesweiler: Former Grube Carl-Alexander Colliery, Flat Juelicher Boerde Landscape, and the Post-Mining Town North of Aachen
Baesweiler has roughly 27,800 inhabitants and lies in the Staedteregion Aachen of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Hard coal mining at the Carl-Alexander colliery defined the town until closure in 1972. The population grew rapidly during the mining era and has since stabilised. The flat Juelicher Boerde, one of Germany's most fertile agricultural landscapes, surrounds the town.
Aachen is about 15 kilometres south. Juelich lies roughly 15 kilometres northeast. Alsdorf and Herzogenrath are nearby former mining communities. The Dutch and Belgian borders are within 20 kilometres. Baesweiler lacks a railway station and depends on road connections and bus services to surrounding cities.
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Baesweiler has roughly 27,800 inhabitants and lies in the Staedteregion Aachen of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Hard coal mining at the Carl-Alexander colliery defined the town until closure in 1972. The population grew rapidly during the mining era and has since stabilised. The flat Juelicher Boerde, one of Germany's most fertile agricultural landscapes, surrounds the town.
Aachen is about 15 kilometres south. Juelich lies roughly 15 kilometres northeast. Alsdorf and Herzogenrath are nearby former mining communities. The Dutch and Belgian borders are within 20 kilometres. Baesweiler lacks a railway station and depends on road connections and bus services to surrounding cities.
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