Stadt Aachen

About Stadt Aachen

The city of Aachen, with its approximately 6,600 employees, is the second-largest employer in the region. Construction and engineering, IT and finance, culture and events, social affairs and health, administration and law, crafts and technology, nature and environment, service and logistics: In all these areas, the administration influences the lives of the people in Aachen. If you count all the professions, there are a respectable 183. The diversity is also contributed to by employees with 51 different nationalities from 66 countries of origin. For the city of Aachen, innovation is one of the major topics. Consequently, it is one of five model municipalities for digitalization in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Measures range from a convenient service portal for municipal services and broadband expansion to new mobility concepts. Aachen Charlemagne and the UNESCO World Heritage Aachen Cathedral meet the RWTH Aachen University of Excellence: History is tangible in Aachen – and the future is being written. The RWTH Aachen Campus is one of the largest research landscapes in Europe. Here, engineering sciences, startups, and companies work together on groundbreaking solutions. The relaxed proximity to Belgium and the Netherlands provides the perfect environment for this. It makes Aachen a European microcosm. With more than 250,000 inhabitants from 160 nations, cosmopolitan young people, big-city offerings, and pleasantly short distances.