Eschweiler

Eschweiler, an industrial town of Rhenish Prussia, 8 miles ENE. of Aix-la-Chapelle, has important iron, zinc, and tin works, machine-shops, manufactories for making copper plates, needles, wire, gas-pipes, and firebricks, besides tanneries and breweries. In the vicinity are productive coal-mines. Pop. (1875) 15,540; (1890) 18,199.