Karl`s Wirtshaus - Aachen

I was here once in summer. we ate it. beautiful location. many different types of beer make it very interesting. the food should be Bavarian, but at the end it is unfortunately only moderately costed. then rather cook yourself or directly after the Bavarian.

The manager was extremely rude. They didn't come to take our order after more than 20 min and the restaurant was empty. After ordering the food didn't come at all and the food for another two tables that order with us came. They finished eating and we never got any food and were kicked out when asking for our food. The manager was not helpful and made us pay for drinks that we barely touch and kicked us out. Never visit that restaurant if you want to have a pleasant meal. The worst experience ever.

What would Aachen be without his most famous son – Karl the Great, who can be found here at several corners with his French pendent “Charlemagne”, but the highlight among them is definitely this fountain, which has been decorating the city hall for centuries. Wells, only right, if they are still in operation, represent an opportunity to insert a bag or to spray the cooling briese with water (depending on the direction of the wind blows) more or less strongly into the face. Even though, as with our last visit, ducks are turning their rounds here, there is even more straying what is happening in the pelvic round. Whether this has been a one-time action, I can't say, but it was fun anyway! For many centuries it was in the Christian age of the 8th century, let yourself be represented. This would certainly not have happened to the emperor in person! In a rough time as it was then, other priorities were priority, so there is no contemporary portrait of the test. Each century had pushed him up his “stamp” so that there were so many different attempts, but there remains an idea of the respective artist and his time that the viewer will see. In this work it does not be anything. The unusually high growth of the emperor, of 1.80 m (for today not exceptional, but centuries ago), who also brought him the applauses of “the Great” comes to the very best in this figure. With the probably most well-known resident in the city, a self-evidentness, as it is presented in his harn and power insignia. Even if Aachen had dispensed with the name “Bad”, Karl already enjoyed the advantages of such refreshments. Whether it should be a play on it, it is no longer possible to clarify it, because in the early 14th. There was a fountain in this place, but the emperor was still in vain. The former Gothic Fountain from 1334 was the first to have been functional and can be documented by drawings. The moving history of the aforementioned sculpture, above it, can be traced back to the year 1620. It was made in today's Belgium, in the workshop by the copper bat and bell caster by Peter and Franz von Trier in Dient. Their life data can only be traced fragmentally. The surviving statue measures approx. 3.6 m and weighs proud 6 tons! In order to ensure a smooth course in production, a friendly bell-caster in Aachen was commissioned to produce it in bronze. The bronze fountain bowl points to the same time, but it is still titled spidically on the Austrian Platt as “Eäzekomp” (Erbsenschale). There, as it looks, a spell was engraved, but I didn't find it anywhere, see if it will change at the next visit! The stone enclosure, as such, came to this much later. Damalige Stadtbaumeister Johann Josef Couven (10 Nov. 1701 – 12. Sept. 1763) caused this to be made in 1735, but without the distinctive water dispensers in the form of dolphins, which can be seen here on one of the photos. Those are a supplement that was realized 3 years later. The emperor is shown here as a warrior, unfortunately not to be photographed in the great sun, but at least one can recognize his graces. As it belongs to a ruler of his format, a crown with a cross over it decorates his head. The scepter and Reichsapfel legitimize his position which he had had inne. In detail, the armor presents itself in all components that can be seen when looking closely with everything that belongs to it. In front of the historic town hall, where its image can also be seen, is a perfect addition that I liked to introduce here. Since we had liked so well, there can only be the full score for it, because this ruler is simply not coming past in Aachen!

For every tourist an absolute must! I can only recommend!